259 Hamosi. 
sand nearly 2 mm. wide. Wings nearly linear, arched to 45°, a 
little longer than keel and 3-4 mm. shorter than banner. Keel with 
«Straight and thick base and then abruptly erect, about 3 mm. high 
at tip and darker. Calyx about 3 mm. long and high, equally in- 
.serted and not oblique, with broad sinuses and subulate teeth a 
littie shorter than tube, on a slender pedicel 2-3 mm. long which 
is longer than the triangular bract. Peduncle 2-3 dm. long, the : 
rachis half to a third as long. Leaves nearly 2 dm. long, very nar- 
row, nearly sessile and with long and tapering rachis, ascending. 
Leadlets about 15 pairs, 7-10 mm. long, oval to broadly elliptical, 
rounded to notched, silvery-white above with closely packed and 
appressed short hairs, green below. Internodes very short, rarely 
2 cm. long, stems erect and slender, about a foot high, from a 
woody ,base. Whitewater at the Base of the San Bernardino 
-Mts., California, Parry; San Emigdio Canon Kern Co. Cal. Davy. 
Tropical. : e 
222. Astragalus Orcuttianus Watson Proc. Am. Acad. 20 361 
(1885). Pods with erect tips but calyx rather refiexed, widely sul- 
cate, Z-celled except at tip, sides concave, ventral suture a sharp 
edge. Flowers about 7 mm. long, pink, short and stubby.  Ban- 
ner oval, nearly 7 mm. long, abruptiy erect at calyx tips, about 3 
mm. longer than wings. Wıngs obiong, arched to 45^, about 1 mm. 
‚longer than keel. keel very short, with straight base and then 
abruptly erect to the trianguiar and acute tip which is about 3 mm. 
high. Calyx about 2.mm. long, acute at base and equally inserted 
and not oblique, inclined to be oblique at tip and cieit deeper above, 
the triangular teeth a little shorter than the tube, hyaline and very 
thin. Pedicels slender, 2-4 mm. long, much longer than the triangu- 
-lar bracts. Peduncles axillary, rarely 5 cm. iu..g, about as long as 
floral rachis in the type. Leaves 7-12 cm. long. Leafiets round to 
oval, 3-7 mm. long, with broadly cuneate base, distant, thin, 
notched, 8-12 pairs, smooth. Stipules small and recurved. Stems 
very slender and branching from a woody base, many, decumbent, - 
a foot long, with very short internodes. Whole plant smooch, but 
‚young parts minutely pubescent.  Cantilas Canon Lower Califor- 
nia, Ureutt. Brandegee’s material from San Enrique L. Cal. has 
‘very long floral rachis and many pods. 
