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tearly didymous 



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■volte 



the re-entering angle on 



the dorsal side 



abseiV 



:. P o(b 



long anc 



I about 8" wide 



, 3-5 in a very 



loose, 



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raceme 



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like tho 



se of the type. 



. This plant g 



;rows 



on Ba 



land, in 



Sanpete valle; 



r, at about 6000 ft. 



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is 4.-8 



This may prove to be a 



mere form not 



worth 



y of v 



field, Kern County, California, Miss Eastwood, March 

 24, 1893. Densely short -woolly -pubescent throughout, 

 or velvety, except the less pubescent older leaves and 

 mature pods; calyx densely black-hairy; leaflets obovate 

 to oblanceolate, emarginate to truncate, 5-9 pairs; petioles 

 and peduncles various: stipules triangular, small, re- 

 flexed; flowers white, 6" long, in heads in flower and in 

 short spikes in fruit; calyx campanulate to short-cylin- 

 dric, tube ii'W long, 1" wide, scarcely gibbous at base, 

 teeth half the tube or less, subulate to triangular, calyx- 

 sessile or nearly so; bracts ovate, 1" long; banner elong- 

 ated, oblong, 3-4" long, ascending 45-60 in gentle curve 

 remote from calyx tips, sides reflexed h" wide most in the 

 middle; wings narrowly oblong, nearly straight, a trifle 

 longer than the keel; keel straight, apex gently arched to 

 90° in a uniform curve from apex to end of curve, shortly 

 acute, 2-3" shorter than banner; pods 1' long, oval to 

 ovate, always more or less lunate, chartaceous, mottled, 

 tip short-triangular to short-acuminate, always incurved, 

 2-celled, sulcate ventrally; pods 3-7, flowers 10-15; per- 

 ennial with ascending stems, 1-2 high. Also collected 

 at Alcalde, California, May, 1881, Brandegee. Type in 

 the California Academy of Sciences Herbarium, as well 



