MACLOSKIE: LEGUMINOS^E. 



late at their base. Calyx silky, its segments subacute. Standard twice 

 as long, glabrous. 



Leaves 18 mm., long; leaflets 4-8 mm., margins recurved. 

 Patagon., on the E. Coast. 



6. PATAGONIUM CANESCENS (A. Gray, sub Streptodesmid). 

 Armed by spiny branches and panicles; hoary, intricately branching 

 mdershrub. Leaves even-pinnate. Leaflets 4-6, oblong or ovate Pedi- 

 cels short, curved. Corolla yellow, not twice as long as the calyx 

 Legume 3 -6-jointed, becoming spirally twisted; its joints 2-valved i- 

 seeded, falling separately. 



N. Patagon., Rio Negro to Chubut. 



7. P. CARNOSUM (Dusen). 



Unarmed; not racemed, low, glabrous except the flowers. Stem 15 

 cm. high, thick, woody, branching, leafless below ; sheathed by dark 

 rugose stipules; the stipules connate, fleshy, with short lobes Lanes 

 crowded, short-petioled, trifoliolate, fleshy, clavate, with short, fugacious 

 tip Flowers terminal, solitary, orange. Calyx campanulate, equally e- 

 t to the middle. Corolla 2- 3 -times as long, its standard suborbicular 

 white-pilose, enclosing the wings and keel. Legume 2- 4 -jointed, tuber- 

 ular, white-pilose, bearing long, recurved remains of the style 



of ^^-\ aliCOnii0ideS f Sp6g " bUt diffCring by the tubercular J' oi 



E. Fuegia (Ansorge). A steppe plant. 



8. P. CONFERTUM (Hook. & Arn.) Reiche. 



Unarmed; racemed ; pinnate. Leaflets mostly 13, obovate-oblong 

 retuse, mucronate. Raceme terminal, many-flowered, with black glands 

 ktr '~ 2 Cm " deflXed ^ frUit LegmmS 3-4-Jointed, rough-glan- 

 Chili. Patagonia, Port San Julian; "apparently widely diffused be- 



e gon 33 ; (M & 5 T.) S - ^ " ** '*** f S ' Amer/ ' J ' H ok - 



9- P. FILIPES (A. Gray). 



Unarmed; racemed ; pinnate. Slender annual, pubescent, glandular 

 erect, branching. Leaflets i i- I3 , only 2 - 3 mm . long, oval, obtuse, gray" 



