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calyx silky-hirsute, the teeth acuminate; corolla rose-purple ? ; 
vexillum obovate; subterranean pods 8 mm. long and broad, re- 
ticulated, emarginate, appressed-hirsute, the seeds 6 mm. long, 4 
mm. wide, ovoid-elliptical, slightly rounded at the ends, light 
brown, the other pods 2~3 cm. long, 6-7 mm. wide, linear-oblong, 
acute, tapering to the base, densely pubescent or tomentose, the 
seeds elliptical-oblong, mature ones not seen. 
Original locality, Texas. 
Type, Lindheimer, No. 370. 
Sandy ground, Texas. 
Synonymy: Heterocarpaea Texana Scheele, Linnaea 21: 468. 1850- 
8. Galactia Texana (Scheele) A. Gray, Bost. Journ. Nat. Hist. 
GO: f70: . 15s. 
Procumbent from a ligneous root; stems slender, long, con- 
spicuously twining, retrorse-pubescent or hirsute ; stipules minute, 
caducous; petioles 1-4 cm. long, slender ; leaflets 2.5-5 cm. long, 
2-3.5 cm. wide, oval, retuse, mucronulate, minutely appressed- 
cinereous-puberulous or glabrate above, appressed sericeous or 
sparingly villous beneath, thin, becoming slightly coriaceous; ra- 
cemes few-flowered, much shorter than the leaves; flowers not 
seen; calyx 5 mm. long, the teeth attenuate; legume slightly fal- 
cate, 4-5 cm. long, 5-6 mm. wide, acute at each end, appressed- 
hirsute ; seeds 5-7, 5 mm. long, elliptical, truncate at the ends, 
light brown. 
Original locality, near New Braunfels, Texas. 
Type, Lindheimer. Confined to Western Texas. 
Synonymy: Ladlab Texanus Scheele, Linnaea, 21: 467. 1848. 
9- Galactia regularis (L.) B. S. P. Prel. Cat. N. Y. 14. 1888. 
Prostrate and climbing on bushes, from a stout, ligneous root; 
stems 4 dm—1 m. long or more, terete, minutely retrorse-pubes- 
cent, becoming glabrate; internodes about the length of the 
leaves; stipules minute, subulate; petioles 1-3 cm. long; leaflets 
2-4.5 cm. long, rather rigid, elliptical-oblong, or ovate-oblong, ob- 
tuse, rarely acutish, often retuse and apiculate, emarginate, gla- 
brous above, somewhat appressed-hirsute or pilose and lighter be- 
neath ; racemes 3-9 cm. long, usually rigid, and, with the leaves 
erect on the prostrate stem, the smaller accessory ones only occa- 
sional; flowers violet-purple, showy, often scattered the whole 
length of the rhachis; bracts small; bracteoles subulate, 1-2 mm. 
long; calyx 6-9 mm. long; glabrate or with a few scattered hairs, 
conspicuously acuminate in bud, the teeth slender, obscurely sca- 
