259 Hamoai. 



••and nearly 2 mm. wide. Wings nearly linear, arched to 45", a 

 .little longer than keel and 3-4 mm. shorter than banner. Keel with 

 straight and thick base and then abruptly erect, about 3 mm. high 

 at tip and darker. Calyx about 3 mm. long and high, equally in- 

 serted and not oblique, with broad sinuses and subulate teeth a 

 little shorter than tube, on a slender pedicel 2-3 mm. long which 

 is longei than the triangular bract. Peduncle 2-3 dm. long, the 

 rachis half to a third as long. Leaves nearly 2 dm. long, very nar- 

 row, nearly sessile and with long and tapering rachis, ascending. 

 Leariets about 15 pairs, 7-10 mm. long, oval to broadly elliptical, 

 rounded to notched, silvery-white above with closely packed and 

 appressed short hairs, green below. Internodes very short, rarely 

 2 cm. long, stems erect and slender, about a foot high, from a 

 woody base. Whitewater at the Base of the San Bernardino 

 Mts., California, Parry; San Emigdio Canon Kern Co. Cal. Davy. 

 Tropical. 



222. Astragalus Orcuttianus Watson Proc. Am. Acad. 20 3G1 

 (1885). Pods with erect tips but calyx rather retiexed, widely sul- 

 cate, 2-celied except at tip, sides concave, ventral suture a sharp 

 edge. Flowers about 7 mm. long, pink, short and stubby. Ban- 

 ner oval, nearly 7 mm. long, abruptly erect at calyx tips, about 3 

 mm. longer than wings. Wings obiong, arched to 45% about 1 mm. 

 longer than keel. Keel veiy short, with straight ' base and then 

 abruptly erect to the triangular and acute tip which is about 3 mm. 

 high. Calyx about 2 mm. long, acute ac base and equally inserted 

 and not oblique, inclined to be oblique at tip and cleit deeper above, 

 the triangular teeth a littie shorter than the tube, hyaline and very 

 thin. Pedicels slender, 2-4 mm. long, much longer than the triangu- 

 lar bracts. Peduncles axillaiy, rareiy 5 cm. i.^-.g, about as long as 

 floral rachis in the type. Leaves 7-12 cm. long. Leaflets round to 

 oval, 3-7 mm. long, with broadly cuneate base, distant, thin, 

 notched, 8-12 pairs, smooth. Stipules small and recui-ved. Stems 

 very slender and branching from a woody base, many, decumbent, 

 a toot long, with very short internodes. Whole plant smooth, but 

 young parts minutely pubescent. Cantillas Canon Lower Califor- 

 nia, Urcutt. Brandegee's material from San Enrique L. Cal. has 

 very long floral rachis and many pods. 



Astragalus Orcuttianus var. Gregorianus Jones Cont. 10 '63 

 (1902). Pods equally arched to a quarter circle, narrowed and ob- 

 compressed below, laterally flattened above and about 3 .mm. high, 

 deeply sulcate at base ana littie so at tip which is abruptly acicular 

 and declined and nearly in line with tne dorsal suture, ventral su- 

 ture raised as a snaip and thin edge, pods smooth, chartaceous, 

 finely reticulated, about 2-5 cm. long, blowers about 1 cm. long,' 

 broad, pink. Banner oval, about 1 cm. long, with sides reflexed 

 nearly 4 mm. wide at base, arched abruptly at calyx tips to oO', 

 about 4 mm. longer than wings. V/ings obliquely ooovate, axxhed 

 30% about 1 mm. longer than keel, 2 mm. wide. Keel as in the 

 type and about 4 mm. high and as long. Calyx tube very oblique 

 aoove and teeth unequal, about 1 mm. long. i^eduncles with floral 

 rachis about a foot long. Leaflets obovate to obcordata, about 1 

 cm. long. San Gregorio and San Enrique L. Cal. in Bloom in Feb- 

 ruary. Brandegee. 



223. Astragalus drepanolobus Gray Proc. Am. Acad. 19 75 

 (1883). Pous abouu 2 cm. long and 2-3 mm. high and 1 inm. wide, 

 smootn and shining, arclied to about a half circle, a trifle narrowed 

 at both ends, rounded and obtuse at base, triangular-acute at tip. 

 finely reticulated, papery, 2-celled except at tip, with a sharp and 

 narrow sulcus, the ventral suture a mere line and not raised. Flow- 

 ers about 5 mm. long, broad, white. Banner nearly round, about 

 4 mm. long, arcned abruptly near end of tube to 45-80% with sides 

 retiexed 1 mm. wide and most below about 3 mm. longer than wings. 

 Wings obiong-liaear, arched 45 , acutish, fully 1 mm. longer than 



