185 
Pods convex along the ventral suture and so seeming wrong 
side up. Leaflets nearly linear, 5-8 mm. long. Wings 
only equaling keel. 141. recurvus. 
Pods straight or slightly upcurved. Leaflets lanceolate or 
wider, 1-2 cm. long. Wings longer than keel. 
142 straturensis. 
2A. Pods eblanceolate to oval, inflated, shortly acute to apiculate, 
not over 8 mm. wide when broad, with cross-section round to oblate 
and inclined to be somewhat obcompressed, rarely sulcate and then 
very broadly so. 
2AB. Flowers racemose, 3-8 mm. long. 
2ABC. Flowers rather many, 5-10 cm. long. Pods 
linear-oblong, sulcate dorsally and obcompressed, acute, 
on a Stipe at least as long as calyx, about 1.5-2 cm. long, 
little if at all wider above. 143 strigulosus. 
2AB2C. Flowers 1-4, 3-4 mm. long, scattered along a filiform ra- 
chis, on long pedicels, Pods oblong-obeonical, apiculate. 
on a minute stipe, wider above, about 1 cm. long. 
2 144 Brandegei. 
2A2B. Pods nearly globose to oval, conspicuously inflated, 2-3 
cm.long,capitate. Stems slender, with imbricated stipules. 
145 platytropis. 
2A3B. Flowersin heads or very short spikes. Pods smooth, 
oblong, about 1.5 cm. long, chartaceous, evidently a little 
inflated, Leaflets broad or large. * 
2A3RC. Stems not creeping. Flowers not over 1 cm. long. 
2A3ECD. Leaflets rather thick. Pods quite oblique, with 
upturned mucro. Flowers white to cream-colored, 5-7 
cm. long, with purple-tipped keel. Piants nearly erect, 
from slender root branches. Db n 146 Cobrensis. 
2A3BC2D. Stems very slender and nearly prostrate. i 
Leaflets very thin. Pods scarcely oblique, stipitate. 
Banner purple-veined above and purple-tinged on the 
sides which are reflexed along the middle. Wings 
white-tipped. Flowers cm. long, 10-20, in a dense 
oblong head which becomes a short spike in fruit. 
Keel purple-tipped. 
Stems 2-3 ft. long. Flowers 1 cm. long. y 
Calyx teeth subulate, 2-3 mm. long. 147 Guatamalensis. 
Calyx teeth minute and deltoid. - 148 Painteri. 
Stems hardly 2 dm. long. Flowers 7 mm. long. 
2A3B2C. Stems slender, decumbent. Leaflets thin, narrowly 
oblong, about 2 cm. long. Pods nigrescent, papery, 1 cm. 
long, nearly sessile, rather oblique. Flowers closely re- E 
flexed, spicate, about 4 mm. long. - 150 Rosei. — 
2A3B3C. Stems creeping, and rooting at the nodes. Leaves 
long-petioled. Flowers cream-colored and reflexed. 
Pa ; VE : 151 reptans. 
B 
149 Tolucanus. . 
