264 LEGUMINOSZ. 
2 lineas longer, persistentes. Flores racemosi, breviter pedicellati, 6-8 lin. longi; racemi pau- 
ciflori (subtriflori in speciminibus Coulterianis), pedunculis folia szequantibus vel superantibus ; 
bractez parvee, subulate ; calycis dense hirsuti tubus anguste campanulatus, dentibus subulatis 
quam tubus quadruplo brevioribus; ovarium glabrum. Legumen coriaceum, leve, glabrum, 
cylindricum, curvum, circiter 8 lineas longum et 8 lineas crassum, longiuscule curvato- 
~ rostratum. . 
Nort Mexico, Zacatecas (Coulter). “Hb. Kew. 
4, Astragalus ervoides, Hook. et Ar. Bot. Beech. Voy. p. 417. 
SourH Mexico, San Blas to Tepic (Sinclair). Hb. Kew. 
5. Astragalus glareosus, Dougl. in Hook. Fl. Bor.-Am. i. p. 152. 
New Mexico.—Norta Mexico, Guadalupe Pass, Sonora. — 
6. Astragalus (Phaca) guatemalensis, n. sp. | 
Procumbens, reptans, glabrescens, foliolis 10-15-jugis brevissime petiolulatis oblongis emarginatis 
vel mucronulatis glaucis, stipulis amplis inter se coalitis longe acuminatis, racemis longiuscule 
pedunculatis densifloris 10-20-floris, floribus mediocribus breviter pedicellatis, calycis lobis 
subulatis tubum equantibus, legumine oblongo glabro obcompresso sutura utraque presertim 
dorsali i impressa. 
Herba perennis, procumbens, reptans, preter calyces cito glabrescens, ramis leviter sulcatis, inter- 
nodiis breviusculis. Folia breviter petiolata, 2—4-pollicaria; foliola 10-15-juga, brevissime 
petiolulata, crebriuscula, oblonga, 3-6 lin. longa, emarginata, sepissime mucronulata, glauca, 
juniora precipue subtus parce albo-strigulosa; stipule a petiolo libere, inter se ad medium 
coalite, lanceolate, longe acuminate, usque semipollicares, scariose, persistentes. Flores 
racemosi, breviter pedicellati, circiter 8 lin. longi; racemi longiuscule pedunculati, 10-12- 
flori, dense bracteati, pedunculis quam folia longioribus ; bractese scariosz, lineari-lanceolate, 
3-4 lin. longee, persistentes ; calycis nigro-hirsuti lobi subulati, tubum equantes ; vexillum 
calyce duplo longior. Legumen sessile, oblongum, vix pollicare, glabrum, obcompressum, cir- 
citer 10-spermum, suturis utraque, preesertim dorsali, impressa, longitidinaliter interstinctum. 
GUATEMALA, in pine-forests, Volcan de Fuego (Salvin & Godman), Volcan de Fuego, 
10,500 feet (Salvin). Hb. Kew. 
This is evidently a close ally of Astragalus reptans ; but it differs in having smaller, 
shorter leaves, long narrow stipules, and in the dorsal suture of the pod not being 
septiferous, as well as in some of its minor characters. 
7. Astragalus hartwegii, Benth. Pl. Hartw. p. 10. 
Norta Mexico, El Potrero, Sonora (Schott); Sours Mexico, Zimapan (Coulter), 
Aguas Calientes (Hartweg, 53), Tacubaya (Bourgeau, 337), near Guadalupe (Bourgea, 
483), Mexico (Halsted). Hb. Kew. 
8. Astragalus helleri, F Fenzl, ex Peyr. in Linnea, xxx. p. 77, sine descriptione. 
Sovra Mexico, Orizaba, at 9000 feet (Heller). 
9. Astragalus humboldtii, A. Gray, in Proc. Am. Acad. vi. p. 195, in adnot. | 
Phaca mollis, H. B. K. Nov. Gen. et Sp. vi. p. 496, t. 585. 
Norta Mexico, region of San Luis Potosi (Parry & Palmer, 170, 171), Chihuahua 
