﻿late, barely acute, not contiguous, i% f long; peduncles 

 about i° long, noriferous on the upper third; flowers 

 racemose, nearly sessile, with ovate bracts shorter than 

 the pedicels; calyx broadly campanulate, tube i" long; 

 teeth triangular and about one-third the tube; flowers 

 purple; banner 3" long, bent abruptly and remotely from 

 the calyx tips to 45-90 , oval, sides reflexed; wings arched 

 6o°, and exposing the base of keel, oblong, }(" shorter 

 than the banner; keel abruptly bent to no , and apex 

 produced to a point, ijj" high, base of blade a trifle 

 arched, about §" shorter than the wings, light colored; 

 flowers horizontal, about 3" apart; pods lenticular, much 

 the shape of the Kcutroplixla group when flat beaked, 

 the upper )/ 2 or y h perfectly flat and triangular-acu 



the base of the pod, chartaceous, narrowed at very ba 

 but sessile, lunate, i-celled, seed-bearing in the middle, 

 4" long. 2 J" wide. 



The type is in the California Academy of Sciences. 



Aslra^a/us Jii/ianiis. San Julio. Lower California 

 Brandegee, April 19, 1889. This appears to be near to A 

 sabulonum. Annual, erect; inflorescence corymbiform 

 by the shortening of the upper nodes ; stems mostly shaggy 

 with partly spreading hairs, except the rather shortly and 

 sparsely pubescent pods; nodes 6" to 1' apart; leaves 4' 

 long, of 7-8 pairs of narrowly elliptical acutish leaflets, 

 which are 6" long and 1 to ih" wide; proper petiole 6-9" 

 long; peduncles stout, as long as the leaves, the rachis 

 as long in fruit; flowers in a close raceme, lax in fruit, 

 nearly sessile, reflexed and fruit also : calyx campanulate. 

 tube 1" long, subulate teeth about the same ; pods ob- 

 liquely-oval, swelled to circular in the middle, contracted 

 at base, with a Hat. triangular, acuminate beak, 2" long, 



