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hairs: leaflets oblanceolate, an inch long, obtuse, but with 

 a small, recurved cusp: racemes loose: bracts equalling the 

 calyx, the upper lip of which is deeply cleft: corolla 5 lines 

 long, deep blue throughout, keel naked: pods when young 

 strongly villous-hirsute. 



Near the village of Olema, Marin County, April, 1886. 



Plant with the habit of large states of L. nanus, but very 

 distinct, wanting the variegated or changeable petals and 

 villous-edged keel of that species; the herbage fleshy as in 

 L. affinis. 



LuPixus UMBELLATUS. Auiiual, slender and much branch- 

 ed, a foot or more high, canescent with a soft, villous pu- 

 bescence: leaflets 7 — 11, only a half-inch long: peduncles 

 slender; pedicels elongated, bearing the few small flowers 

 in an umbellate cluster: calyx-lips narrow, the upper deeply 

 cleft: corolla 2 — 3 lines long, light blue: pods 5 — 7-seeded. 



Island of Santa Cruz, 1886. 



Near L. mlcranthiis, but distinguished therefrom by its 

 dense white pubescence, small, crowded leaflets and almost 

 umbellate inflorescence. 



SYRMATIUM, Vogel. 



Calyx campanulate-tubular, almost equally 5-toothed or 

 -cleft, persistent. Petals subequal, free from the stamens: 

 claw of the vexillum remote from the others; wings spread- 

 ing; keel broad above and usually obtuse or retuse. Stamens 

 10, diadelphous; anthers uniform. Style incurved. Pod 

 linear, compressed, rostrate-attenuate, falcate-incurved, 

 1 — 3-seeded, indehiscent, deciduous by an articulation of 

 the pedicel. — Herbs or shrubs with 3 — 7-foliolate leaves and 

 gland-like stipules. Flowers small, in few-flowered, bracted 

 or naked umbels, yellow changing to red. — Linna^a, x. 591 

 (1836): Drepanolobiis, Nutt. MS. cited in Torr. k Gray, 

 PL N. Am. i. 324 (1838): part of HosacJda, Bentham, Torrey, 

 Gray, and all recent authors. 



In restoring this long neglected genus, I am not obliged 



