Pulse Family 221 



dense; bracts small; calyx with sessile glands and somewhat 

 villous with black hairs, becoming enlarged and inflated in fruit; 

 teeth short, nearly equal ; corolla 1 cm. long, twice as long as the 

 calyx, ochroleucous, often with a deep purple tinge; stamens 

 monadelphous ; pod rounded, compressed, 6 mm. long. 

 Frequent in the upper chaparral belt throughout our range. 



-*- *- Stems prostrate. 



3. P. orbicularis Lindl. Stem prostrate, creeping, the leaves 

 and racemes erect, long stalked ; leaflets 2.5-4 cm. long, the termi- 

 nal one nearly orbicular, the lateral pair obovate ; raceme often 

 2 dm. long ; bracts large, deciduous ; calyx villous and pedicellate- 

 glandular, cleft nearly to the base, the lower tooth equaling the 

 purplish corolla ; stamens diadelphous ; pod ovate, acute, 6 mm. 

 long. 



Occasional in the valleys throughout our range; rare in the coast region. 



** Leaves palmately 5-foliate. 



4. P. Californica Wats. Low, tufted ; pubescence short, silky, 

 appressed; stipules scarious, lanceolate, deciduous; leaflets 

 broadly lanceolate, acutish, 2-4 cm. long; peduncles short; ra- 

 cemes rather loose, shorter than the leaves; pedicels slender; 

 calyx silky-villous, 1 cm. long; the lobes linear, acuminate, 

 slightly surpassing the corolla; pod thin, villous, oblong, with a 

 lanceolate beak. 



San Bernardino Mountains in the chaparral belt. 



10. AMORPHA L. 



Glandular-punctate and heavy-scented shrubs with 

 unequally pinnate leaves, caducous stipules, and small 

 purple flowers in terminal spikes. Calyx obconic-cam- 

 panulate, 5-toothed, persistent. Standard erect, concave, 

 unguiculate ; wings and keel wanting. Stamens mona- 

 delphous at the base. Pod short, exceeding the , calyx, 

 sessile, indehiscent, 1-2-seeded. 



1. A. Californica Nutt. 1-3 m. high, puberulent, the nascent 

 parts villous-pubescent ; leaflets 11-15, elliptic-oblong, obtuse, 2 



