PEA FAMILY 



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ingly pubescent when young, sparsely leafy. Leaflets 3-6, cuneate-oblong, 4-10 mm. long, sparsely 

 pubescent ; umbels sessile or subsessile, bractless, 3-9-flowered ; calyx 2 mm. long, sparsely pubes- 

 cent the teeth subulate, much shorter than the tube; corolla 3.5 cm. long, yellow or pinkish, 

 the standard shorter than the keel ; pod strigose, the body curved, constricted between the two 

 seeds, tipped by an elongated beak, hooked at the apex; seeds terete, slender, 2.5-3 mm. long. 



Dry hillsides and plains, Sonoran Zone; cismontane region of southern California to northern Lower Cali- 

 fornia. Type locality: originally collected by Nuttall, probably at San Diego, but erroneously reported as Mon- 

 terey. March-June. 



35. Hosackia cystoides Benth. Bentham's Hosackia. 



Fig. 



2744. 



Hosackia cystoides Benth. Trans. Linn. Soc. 17: 366. 1837. 

 Syrmatium cystoides Greene, Bull. Calif. Acad. 2: 147. 1886. 

 Lotus Benthamii Greene, Pittonia 2: 148. 1890. 



Perennial, the branches suffruticose, decumbent or suberect, 3-6 dm. long, strigose when 

 young but soon glabrous. Leaflets 3, on a very short rachis, oblong-lanceolate to obovate, 

 rounded or obtuse at apex, 4-10 mm. long, sparsely strigose or glabrous, stipular glands promi- 

 nent ; umbels 3-7-flowered, on slender peduncles 10-25 mm. long ; calyx 6 mm. long, glabrous or 

 nearly so the teeth subulate, usually recurved, scarcely half as long as the tube; corolla 7-8 mm. 

 long, yellow tinged with red ; body of the pod slightly curved, longer than the calyx, glabrous, 

 2-3-seeded, gradually tapering to the slender beak. 



Sandy or gravelly soils, Humid Transition and Upper Sonoran Zones; hills and bluffs near the coast, Sonoma 

 County to Monterey County, California. Type locality: California, probably Monterey. March-July. 



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2741. Hosackia nivea 



2742. Hosackia prostrata 



2743. Hosackia micrantha 



2744. Hosackia cystoides 



2745. Hosackia dendroidea 



2746. Hosackia Haydonii 



