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GALEGIFORMES. 25. 



Pods chartaceous to cori?>ceous, not fleshy, nearly to 

 fully linear, 2.5-5 cm. loni?. 3-7 mm. high, opening first 

 at tip, mostly slightly inflated, mostly slender-stipitate, 

 not jointed to stipe, reflexed, triangular-acute at both 

 ends, smooth, triciuetrous to reniform in cross section, 

 ventral suture raised and thickened. Flowers reflexed, in 

 dense racemes, 1.5-3.5 cm. long, white (drying to yel- 

 lowish) but often tinged wath purple, narrow. Banner 

 elongated and much longer than the wings, with sides 

 much reflexed. Wings elongated, narrowly oblong, at 

 least 2 mm. longer than keel. Keel obliquely and 

 broadly oblanceolate, about 7 mm. long, rounded in a 

 gentle arc to tip which is erect and obtuse. Calyx hya- 

 line, inclined to be colored like the flowers, variously 

 hairy but not shaggy, cylindric, about 5 mm. long and 3 

 mm. high, little oblique at tip, sometimes a little nar- 

 rower below, abruptly rounded at base to the lower cor- 

 ner where it is attached to pedicel and nearly at a right 

 angle to it. Pedicels rather slender. Bracts triangular- 

 subulate, mostly longer than pedicels. Peduncles stout, 

 strict, 5-30 cm. long. Upper leaves nearly sessile. Leaf- 

 lets 5-20 pairs, rather long-petiolulate, cuneate at base, 

 mostly flat, rather thick, obtuse to barely acute, 1-3 cm. 

 long. Stems rather many and tufted from an erect root, 

 ascending to erect, 1-3 ft. high. Internodes inclined to be 

 much shorter than leaves. Stems 2-7 mm. thick. Pu- 

 bescence attached by base, mostly scanty, upper side of 

 leaflets normally smooth. 



KEY. 



A. Pods wholly 1 -celled, straight or nearly so, ventral suture aboat 

 straight to tip. Leaflets 1.5-3 cm. long. 



Pods not 2^elled. 208 racemosu.s. 



Pods nearly 2-celled. 209 scopulorum. 



Pods incompletely 2-celled by the dorsal suture being pro- 

 duced toward the ventral variously, nearly straight and when 

 about straight then the ventral suture is the mor« arched, acu- 

 minate at base, abruptly acute at the declined tip which is about 

 in a line with the dorsal suture, a little oblique at least at tip, 

 linear to narrowly elliptical-oblong, deeply sulcate dorsally an«f 

 with narrow sulcus, with sides convex or rarely flat when ma- 

 ture, smooth. Stipe as long as calyx tube. Calyx oblique at 

 mouth. Flower 2-2.5 cm. long, white (yellowish when dry). 

 Banner fiddle-shaped with sides much reflexed. Bracts sca- 

 rious, subulate, about 2 mm. long, as long as or longer than 

 the pedicels in flower. Pedicels 2-4 mm. long, curved. Calyx 

 teeth subulate and about 2 mm. long. Peduncles fully as long 

 as the leaves or more, strict, and (like the stems) grooved. 



2A. Pod 



