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PodB convex along the ventral suture and so seeming wrong 

 side up. Leaflets nearly linear, 5-t mm. long. Wings 

 only equaling keel. 141 recurvus. 



Pods straight or slightly upcurved. Leaflets lanceolate or 

 wider, 1-2 cm. long. Wings longer th«n keel. 



142 straturcnsis. 

 2A. Pods oblanceolate to oval, inflated, shortly acute to npiculate, 

 r.ot over S mm. wide when broad, with cross-section round to oblate 

 ind inclined to be somewhat obcompressed, rarely sulcate and then 

 very broadly so. 

 2AB. Flowers racemose, 3-8 mm. long. 

 2ABC. Flowers rather many, 5 10 cm. long. Pods 



linear-oblong, sulcate dorsally and obcompressed, acute, 

 on a stipe at least as long as calyx, about 1.5-2 cm. long, 

 little if at all wider above. 143 strigulosus. 



2AB2C. Flowers 1-4, 3-4 mm. long, scattered along a filiform ra- 

 chis, on long pedicels. Pods oblong-obeonical, apiculate. 

 on a minute stipe, wider above, about 1 cm. long. 



144 Brandegei. 

 2A2B. Pods nearly globose to oval, conspicuously inflated, 2-3 



crn. lonj, capitate. Stems slender, with imbricated stipules. 



145 platytropis. 

 2A3B. Flowers in heads or very short spikes. Pods smooth, 



oblong, about 1.5 cm. long, chartaceous, evidently a little 

 inflated. Leaflets broad or large. 

 2A3BC. Stems not creeping. Flowers not over 1 cm. long. 

 2 A3BCD. Leaflets rather thick. Pods quite oblique, with 

 upturned mucro. Flowers white to cream-colored, 5-7 

 cm. long, with purple-tipped keel. Plants nearly erect, 

 from slender root branches'. 146 Cobrensis. 



2A3BC2D. Stems very slender and nearly prostrate. 

 Leaflets very thin. Pods scarcely oblique, stipitate. 

 Banner purple-veined above and purple-tinged on the 

 sides which are rcflexed along the middle. Wings 

 white-tipped. Flowers 1 cm. long, 10-20, in a dense 

 oblong head which becomes a short spike in fruit. 

 Keel purple-tipped. 

 Stems 2-3 ft. long. Flowers 1 cm. long. 

 Calyx teeth subulate, 2-3 mm. Ions. 147 Guatamalensis. 



Calyx teeth minute and deltoid. 148 Painteri. 



Stems hardh 2 dm. long. Flowers 7 mm. long. 



149 Tolucanus. 

 2A3B2C. Stems slender, decum.bent. Leaflets thin, narrowly 

 oblong, about 2 cm., long. Pods nigrescent, papery, 1 cm. 

 long, nearly sessile, rather oblique. Flowers closely rc- 

 flexed, spicate, about 4 mm. long. 150 Rosei. 

 2A3B3C. Stems creeping, and rooting at the nodes. Leaves 

 ong-petioled. Flowers cream-colored and rcflexed. 



151 reptans. 



