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taken fresh Irfareh 



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5,500 feet elevation, «re ^ist &e ^species j^row^ -«i gra^wRy ilopes among 

 the live oak^. St«ns prostrate after the first tew inches, very slender, 

 from an ajq^renQj' whiter-annual root. Tlowers with -banner parp5e, and 

 witli the white spot rectanguluT and veined with purple, wiflj ades reflexerl 

 somewhat Win^p ttilly 2-3 mm. kn^, linoar-bekm-, obtuse, mm:h rounded, 

 then oblong lanceolate, not "flaring, eonnivtnt ^at tip and puq>le there, 2 

 mm, wide at tip. Pods 2-celkd, linear-acuminate. Calyx * littfe later- 



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flattened, nisgrescent. The species "-is ^%' described in wy Astra 

 gauls, pa^-2-6Z. 



Astragalus 1F>aiK?i»3Utt«isiii Jones is like!)' :h> "be 

 There is no otlicr species that it ^vouW W so near, :parikularl3' &e ^^•^ 

 Lagunensis Jones. V^ry likely a xninpaTij«n of the type ^rvoiaes if tl»4 

 is cxtaot would aettie fee matter. Tf ttect is t»1 |>r»8ibk flan _ervoi4es 

 must always remain a puxile, "&) tar no specimens «t tny ^pede? tave 

 been found on fiie main land, -and 4bere i? no likelihood of any beinj 

 found "between San Bias ^nd T^ic* -eseept «a S9t»e %gh moantain 

 adjaqent to the r«ute to Tepk :froro "San Bks. 3 do net know of any 

 sttc^ mountain, but near Tepic isome -of Ae mouJitain* seem te fo «p ifif« 

 the live ^eka. I liave »©t yet -been ron Aero. The species im#Jt well he 



<alled «T(Md(ps— vetdi^bke. 



Stylosan&es pn^strate ^. "Sp. Stenw ^prostrate fra«i ^i weody rort, 

 Icwxning close mats 2-3 tm in ^dJaroeter, wtber rigid aad Cree^ bmncbwJ 

 throughout Whole plant glutinous-hair}, ^ith Blender glajid-tjpped hairs 

 wfeich frequently hav? 2-3 swellings Wte glands below the tip, oAer hwrs 

 we slender and without glads and mixed in «roong the rest, Ihe marKins 

 the Reaves and bracts are «l80 beset w& ^a^e-like tiaars f nam tndf 



and puBttjlate base. Neariy e^-ery node iias a peduncJe like t>ra^ 

 inched long tetminating in a leaf and ^ «^8sile sp^te "^-^ *™- ^ 

 about 



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W, of 3 leaflets on abort pctiolules, &e proper p«*idc being 

 nearly as long as the lateral leaflet*, which are slightly ^»rter ^ the 

 kxininal €ne, which is about 1 cm. 4eng and vanes <rom m^\ 4o oblanc*f>- 

 late on fl*e same plant, and always with an oblique ^d yeHow ^inc-likc 

 apiculation. Stipules about a* long as the lateral fcafl^, ^Y^ .^^ 

 3-nen^d with raided and rib-like nerve* and comi^ t^e&ff ^>em: in a 

 linear to ^ubukte aad rather rigid grmi and leaf 4,ke «p as lonj as tht 

 body, the whole very pubescent. Bracts densely -aggrcgated^and overlap- 

 ping, each subtending 7 flower, deltoid in «.tUne j^^^^ J <^ ^ 



trifid nearly to the middle into 3 gre«i 4^, ^""""^^^^t^ 

 strongly gi4n-nerred, the latend lobes indiaed to U «<««;»ed *nd acoose 

 and li^ the central one linear and «ther kaf-hke ^^J^^ 

 nowers exseked slighUy, golden-yellow. 3-4 ^.^g on «Jf^^^^^ 

 ralyx short and ^it into ovate to trangalar j^«»«y J^ ^ 

 .eddish and smooST FxuSt appe«» iesfe m &e ^y^ -as^«^ ^ 

 w.r. twq sets <rf flowers, «« fetik and ,^ ^r Bot Fmit 2 ^W 

 K«>ad3y oblong and tnmcate-i*o«.1^me. im^ 

 »- iB an apkulati«o i»a4e by Ae tightly <«4«S -JfeOe. ■F^oe^ t^< 3.tt 



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