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caducous ; pedicels short, (about half the length of the calyx) 

 much thickened at the base or sub-clasping, attenuated upwards 

 to the calyx ; calyx very minutely bracteolate, (often a mere tuft 

 of villi marking its locality) base saccate above and below, upper 

 lip sub-equal two toothed, lower lip three toothed, middle tooth a 

 little longer; wings very broad, naked, as long as the vexillum; 

 vexillum orbicular, without spots, sparsely pubescent externally ; 

 keel sub-cilliate, with a few scattering appressed hairs above and 

 below. 



Embryo legume, fulvous villous, seven seeded. 



The specimen is from the Randall purchase of the Academy, No. 

 119, collected by Mr. Lobb, on the Santa Lucia Mountains, m 

 piney woods. The proper stem is low, and the leaves somewhat 

 clustered by the condensed hitcrnodes ; fistulous below. A very 

 marked, fine, robust species, worthy of cultivation. 



