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sessile. Above Dos Rios in the state of Mexico, Sept. 41904 by Rose 
and Painter, Nat. Herb. No. 450372. 
151 Astragalus reptans Willd. Hort. Berol. 2 88 t. 88 (1816). 
Pods oblong-oval, about 1.5 cm. long, 7 mm. wide, rounded and ab- 
ruptly apiculate at tip, almost sessile and splitting the calyx, inclined. 
to be a little wider above, searcely oblique, little if at all sulcate, a 
little obcompressed, but cross-section nearly. round, partly 2-celled. 
Flowers in a short spike and closely reflexed, cream-colored at least 
when dry, about 1.5 cm. long, rather many. Banner oblanceolate, ob- 
tuse, about 1 cm. long, but little arched, 1 mm. longer than wings, with 
sides reflexed about 1 mm. wide. Wings oblanceolate, obtuse, 2. mm. 
wide, narrowed above, about 4mm. longer than keel, straight. The 
keel obtuse, about 2 mm. wide, 4 mm. long, not colored, with the erect 
tip straight. Calyx tube short-cylindric, about 5 dm. long, 3 mm. wide, 
equally attached, with the lower corner cut off, very oblique below, 
thin, nigrescent; teeth triangular from a deltoid base, over half as, 
long as tube, unequal, with narrow sinuses. Pedicels very short. The 
bracts are papery asin.A. Guatamalensis, ovate to lanceolate, barely 
acute, 2-3 mm. long. Peduncles about a foot long, slender, from root- 
ing nodes. Leaves 1-1.5 ft. long, slender, with petioles nearly as long 
as the rachis. Leaflets smooth, narrowly elliptical, cuneate below, 
about 2 cm. long, thin and flat, 12-14 pairs, contiguous, 3-7 mm. wide, 
obtuse. Stipules large, connate-falcate, green. Stems 2-4 ft. long, 
creeping and rooting at the nodes, many, with internodes 4-10 cm. 
long. This grows on knolls in low meadows, valley of Mexico and 
Sierra de Las Cruces. Middle Temperate life zone. 
