238 PITTONIA. 
A most singular and beautiful species; but closely related 
to A. filifolia of Santa Cruz Island (see page 20 preceding ; 
also Bull. Calif. Acad. ii. 390). 
2. AsTRAGALUS Powpi. Annual, much branched from the 
base, the branches a foot long, ascending ; ; herbage cinereous- 
strigillose : leaflets in 8 or 10 pairs, a half inch long, linear- 
oblong, acute; racemes short- peduncled, 3-150009 ed : 
flowers very small, purple: pods 1-celled, membranaceous or 
somewhat chartaceous, inflated, minutely purple-dotted, 2 inch 
long, 4 inch broad, with an abrupt triangular straight acumi- 
nation. 
Species near A. triflorus, but the pods smaller and apicu- 
late, besides being purple-flecked. They are short-ovoid as 
seen from above; the side view being semi-obovate. 
3. PHASEOLUS FILIFORMIS, Benth. Bot. Sulph. 13. A 
slender annual species, with entire or 3-lobed leaflets, purple 
flowers, and pendulous falcate pods an inch long. The species 
is to be added to the list of Cedros plants; for the good. 
flowering and fruiting specimen now in hand from San Bar- 
tolomé enables me to identify the plant in a very young state 
whieh Lieut. Pond sent from Cedros in January. 
4. HOSACKIA MARITIMA, Nutt., Torr. & Gray, Fl. i. 326. 
5. Lupinus Poxpr. Annual, much branched from the 
base, a foot high, rather slender, sparsely hirsute : petioles 
slender, an inch long, or more ; leaflets about 7, 4 inch long, 
cuneate-oblong, very obtuse or even truncate : racemes scarcely 
peduncled, short, the flowers scattered, 5 lines long, purple, 
the banner with a green spot in the middle which changes to 
red-purple; keel but slightly faleate, naked: lower lip of 
Sr entire, the upper mainly scarious, parted almost to the 
: pod $ inch long, 4-seeded: seed round-ovoid, scarcely 
a ke long, smooth, green-dotted and marbled. 
