RER 246 
GALEGIFORMES. 25. 
Pods chartaceous to coriaceous, not fleshy, necrly to 
fully linear, 2.5-5 cm. long, 3-7 mm. high, opening first 
at tip, mostly slightly inflated, mostly slender-stipitate, 
not jointed to stipe, reflexed, triangular-acute at both 
ends, smooth, triquetrous to reniform in cross section, 
ventral suture raised and thickened. Flowers reflexed, in 
dense racemes, 1.5-3.5 cm. long, white (drying to yel- 
lowish) but often tinged with purple, narrow. Banner 
elongated and much longer than the wings, with sides 
much reflexed. Wings elongated, narrowly oblong, at 
least 2 mm. longer than keel. Keel obliquely’ and 
broadly oblanceolate, about 7 mm. long, rounded in a 
gentle arc to tip which is erect and obtuse. Calyx hya- 
line, inclined to be colored like the flowers, variously 
hairy but not shaggy, cylindric, about 5 mm. long and 3 
mm. high, little oblique at tip, sometimes a little nar- | 
rower below, abruptly rounded at base to the lower cor- 
ner where it is attached to pedicel and nearly at a right 
angle to it. .Pedicels rather slender. Bracts triangular- 
subulate, mostly longer than pedicels. Peduncles stout, 
strict, 5-30 cm. long. Upper leaves nearly sessile. Leaf- 
lets 5-20 pairs, rather long-petiolulate, cuneate at base, 
mostly flat, rather thick, obtuse to barely acute, 1-3 cm. 
long. Stems rather many and tufted from an erect root, 
ascending to erect, 1-3 ft. high. Internodes inclined to be 
much shorter than leaves. Stems 2-7 mm. thick. Pu- 
bescence attached by base, mostly scanty, upper side of 
leaflets normally smooth. . 
KEY. 
A. Pods wholly 1-celled, straight or nearly so, ventral suture about 
. straight to tip. Leaflets 1.5-3 cm. long. 
Pods not 2-celled. 208 racemosus.. 
Pods nearly 2-celled. 209 scopulorum.. 
2A. Pods incompletely 2-celled by the dorsal suture bein o- 
, duced toward the veniral variously, nearly straight Gad whew 
about straight then the ventral suture is the more arched, acu- 
minate at base, abruptly acute at the declined tip which is about 
ina line with the dorsal suture, a little blique at least at tip, 
_ linear to narrowly elliptical-oblong, duelo sulcate dorsally and 
with narrow sulcus, with sides convex or rarely flat when ma- 
_ ture, smooth. Stipe as long as calyx tube. Calyx oblique at 
mouth. Flower 2-2.5 cm. long, white (yellowish when dry). - 
Banner fiddle-shaped with sides much reflexed. Bracts sca- 
: tae subulate, about 2 mm. long, as long as or longer than 
pedicels in flower. Pedicels 2-4 mm. long, curved. Calyx _ 
| teeth subulate and about 2 mm. long. Peduncles fully as long — 
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