506 PATAGONIAN EXPEDITIONS : BOTANY. 



divergent lobes, small. Stipules large, connate, oppositifoliose. Flowers 

 3-8 in a head. Bracts narrow. Calyx covered with black hairs, its teeth 

 narrow, as long as its tube. Corolla 2-3 times as long, standard viola- 

 ceous, wings yellow, twice as long as the keel. Legume ovate, apically 

 attenuate, covered with black hairs. 



(Chili) ; Chubut, in the mountains by Carren-leofu. 



9. ASTRAGALUS MOYANOI Speg. 



A. MOYANOI VILLOSULUS Speg. 



Upper part of stems obsoletely pilose, and younger leaves lax-villous. 

 Ovary ventrally hoary-pubescent. 



Chubut, in dry hills near Carren-leofu. 



10. A. PALEN/E (Phil.) Reiche. 



Perennial, coriaceous, except the young parts. Mature leaves with 

 appressed hairs. Stem slender, flexuose. Leaves 7 cm. long, the petiole 

 one fourth of this ; y-S-pairs of oblong, obtuse, mostly plicate leaflets, 

 i cm. long. Stipules connate as an oppositifoliose sheath. Inflorescence 

 exceeding the leaf, capitate. Rachis and calyx with black hairs ; calyx- 

 teeth subulate, as long as the tube. Wings shorter than keel. Flower- 

 heads at length arched downwards. Legume ovoid, inflated, with 12 seeds. 



Chubut, in dry hills by Carren-leofu. Standard and apex of keel sky- 

 blue. 



A. PALEN^E GRANDIFLORUS Speg. 



Taller than the species. Leaflets 10-12 pairs, obovate, complicate, 

 apically emarginate-subtruncate. Flowers larger, 1518 mm. long, 

 Ovary always glabrous. 



N. Patagon., dry meadows near Lago Nahuel-huapi. 



ii. A. PATAGONICUS (Phil, sub Phaca] Speg. 



Perennial, multicipital, with white, silky leaves. Branches short ; stipules 

 scarious, connate, funnelform, sheathing. Leaflets 5-6 pairs, linear, plicate, 

 falcate. Peduncles axillary, as long as the leaves ; raceme short, 6-flow- 

 ered. Calyx black, hirsute, its teeth subulate, rather short. Corolla blue, 

 with some yellow, more than twice as long as the calyx. Legume silky, 

 ashy and black, compressed-elliptical. 



