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wide ; stipules minute, subulate ; racemes 10-15 cm. long, usually 
much longer than the leaves ; bracts 3 mm. long, ovate, cuspidate ; 
calyx-lobes conspicuously nerved, acute, glabrous, nearly equal ; 
pods exceeding the calyx-lobes, elliptical, hirsute, with a short, 
straight beak; seed 5 mm. long, elliptical, brown. 
Chili—Dr. Styles, near Santiago, Ball (1882); Reynolds; Capt. | 
Wilkes (1838-42); Gay; Mertens; Gillies, No. 25 7; W. Lech-; 
ler; Valparaiso, Wilkes; near Valparaiso, Rusby, No. 956; G. 
Kunze (1839); W. H. Statin (1884-85). 
California—Near Berkeley, Greene (1881). 
34. PSORALEA MACROSTACHYA WU. 
Psoralea macrostachya D.C. Prod. 2: 220 (1825). 
Erect, 3 dm. to 3 m. high, branching, the stems glabrous or _ . 
nearly so, otherwise the pubescence very variable; stipules 3-4 . 
mm. long, subulate; leaves 3-foliate; leaflets 2-8 cm. or more 
long, 1-7 cm. wide, ovate or ovate-lanceolate, acute, from 
neatly glabrous to cinereous-pubescent; glands scattered, black; 
Peduncles 4-30 cm. or more long, glandular; spikes cylindrical; 
racts 5 mm. long, ovate, cuspidate, scarious, soon deciduous; 
Calyx densely villous with silky white hairs, the lower lobe atten- 
uate and longer than the upper one; pod 8 mm. long, obliquely 
ovate, acute, pubescent, with a weak recurved beak; seed 4-5 mm. 
long, elliptical, black. 
California—San Diego Co., San Filipe Cafion, Palmer, No. 63; 
San Bernardino, G. W. Wright, No. 162; Brewer, No. 679; 
Yosemite Valley, Torrey, No. 111 bis. £1865); Indian Springs, 
Nevada Co., G. W. Wright (1875); Douglas (with very 
Pubescent, almost tomentose leaflets); Ray Cafion, near Shasta, 
Brewer, No, 1 322 (leaflets varying from glabrous or cinereous 
‘0 nearly tomentose); Ojai Ch. Creek, Rothrock, No. 172 
(1875); Sacramento River, Wilkes, Nos. 1297 and 1632 (la- 
belled var. rhombifolia) ; Frémont (1843-47); Parry and Lem- 
mon, No. 84 (1876); Palmer No. 69 (1875); San F ilipe, Southern 
San Diego Co., Palmer No. 63 (1875); San Luis Rey, Parry, 
(1850); Colorado Desert, Orcutt, (1889); W. R. Prince (1854); 
Thomas Bridges, No. 74. i eG au . 
Lower California—Santo ‘T homas, Orcutt (1885); All Saints Bay, = 
Miss F. E. Fish (1882); San Bernardino, S. B. and Wes os 
Parish, No, 1075 (1881); Wislizenus (1851). ae 
