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hali-linear-elliptical, convex to keel at base, then a little flaring, white 
but pink-tinged, 6 mm. longer than keel. Keel oblong, about 5 mm. long, 
2 mm. high below and with large ear, a little higher at tip and 3 mm. 
high, the base straight nearly to the end and then sharply rounded to 
erect, the very tip a little outwardly turned and barely obtuse, deep- 
purple at tip, wings and banner transparent. Calyx cylindrical, a little 
inflated, much laterally flattened, with straight base and with the up- 
per side arched a little, cleft deeper above, oblique at base and inserted 
near the lower and fleshy corner, very thin and hyaline, sparsely and 
spreading-pubescent with long white and black hairs, pink-tinted a- 
bove, 5-7 mm long, 3 mm. high, with teeth green, lax, triangular and 
about 3 mm. long. Pedicels stout and 1-2 mm. long. Bracts falcate, 
hyaline, hairy, linear-subulate, about 1 cm. long. Stipules similar but 
green and rather rigid and with broad base, about 1 cm. long, spread- 
ing, not connate, the lowest deltoid and very short. Peduncles stout; 
axillary about 5 cm. long, spreading, with the tapering rachis a little 
longer. Leaves hardly 1 dm long, narrow, spreading, with short peti- 
oles and tapering rachis. Leaflets 6-8 pairs, from oval-obovate to nar- 
rowly obovate, 1-1.5 em. long, rounded, apiculate, appearing as if ashy 
but really of short-shaggy, fine, spreading hairs. The stems are much 
branched below, very zigzag, from slender to stout, rarely 4 dm. long, 
the central one erect or nearly so, the lateral ones nearly flat on the 
ground. This grows in sand and on rocky hill-sides in the center of 
the Columbia Basin near Walla Walla, Umatilla, Klickitat, and is re- 
ported from Baker City. Lower Temperate life zone, blooming in 
June. This unique plant at first thought appears more related to the 
Galegiformes than any other, and connecting that group with the Ha- 
mosi, the pods very much suggesting that on a large scale, but clearly 
this group plant is an offshoot of the Malaci. 
