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I~ Le pseudoparviflorus Rydb. Stems erect or ascending, 50-70 cm, tall, 
forming a showy clump from woody, well-developed rootstocks, softly downy 
with short more or less spreading hairs; petioles of the basal leaves 
10-20 em, long, those of the upper commonly 5-10 cm, long; stipules 4-5 
mm, long, silky; leaflets commonly 11-13, narrowly oblanceolate, 4-7 cm. 
long, 5-12 mm, wide, abruptly acuminate at the very apex, glabrous or nearly 
so on the upper surface, thinly appressed-hirsute on the lower; racemes 
rather crowded, 15-25 cm. long, subverticillate, the flowers rich purple, 
on pedicels 5-7 mm, longs subtended by silky deciduous bracts 3-4 mm, long, 
the rachis and pedicels velvety with a short close pubescence; upper lip of 
the calyx about 4 mm, long, produced backward into a distinct hump about 
1 mn, long, the lower lip about 6 mm, long, both silky; banner of corolla 
o-15 mm, in diameter dark blue becoming a rich purple, glabrous on the 
back, the wings violaceous, veined with blue, keel not ciliate; pod 2cme 
long with 3-5 seeds. (L. laxiflorus var. pseudoparviflorus C. P. Sm, et 
st, Johng). .~ 
Open woods; —————— 
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Fraser Mill, spling. 
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