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vate, with a large rounded basal lobe, those of the keel-petals broadly obovate, without a basal 

 lobe; pod ovoid, darkly short-hairy. 



,u Type collected on Humboldt Road, Butte County, California, July 31, 1914, H M Hall 98>5 

 (herb. Univ. Calif, no. 177574). 



9. Hoita Douglasii (Greene) Rydberg. 



Psoralea macroslachya Und\. Bot. Reg. 21: pi. 1769. 1835. Not P. macroslachya DC. 1825 

 Psoralea strobilma T. & G. Fl. N. Am. 1: 689. 1840 

 Psoralea Douglasii Greene, Erythea 3: 99. 1895. 



A perennial; stem 1-2 m. high, glabrous, glandular-scabrous or in a variety (Bridges 74) 

 canescent-puberulent; leaves pinnately 3-foliolate; stipules subulate, about 5 mm. long; peti- 

 oles 3-5 cm. long; leaflets rhombic-lanceolate or rhombic-ovate, acute, 2-6 cm. long, more or 

 less puberulent, rarely cinereous; peduncles 5-13 cm. long; racemes 5-8 cm. long; rachis long- 

 hairy; bracts broadly ovate, short-acuminate, 1 cm. long or more, conspicuously glandular and 

 somewhat hairy; calyx long-hairy, the upper 3 clefts about equal, the lower 2 much deeper; 

 lowest lobe lanceolate, 7 mm. long, the upper 4 scarcely more than 2 mm. long; corolla 8-9 

 mm. long, purplish; banner orbicular, with a short claw; blades of the wings oblong, with a 

 rounded basal lobe, 7 mm. long, those of the keel-petals broadly lunate, 5 mm. long, the claws 

 of both 3 mm. long; pod as in the preceding. 



Type locality: California. 



Distribution: Central and southern California 



Illustration: Bot. Reg. 21: pi. 1769. 



10. Hoita strobilina (H. & A.) Rydberg. 



Psoralea strobilina H. & A. Bot. Beech. Voy. 332. 1838 

 Psoralea macroslachya T. & G. Fl. N. Am. 1: 304. 1838 

 Lotodes strobilinum Kuntze, Rev. Gen. 194. 1891. 



A perennial; stem 6-10 dm. high, angled and grooved, branched, velutinous-puberulent 

 and conspicuously glandular and viscidly long-hairy, especially above; leaves 3-foliolate; stipules 

 ovate, cuspidate, 10-15 mm. long, conspicuously glandular-dotted and long-hairy, membran- 

 ous; petioles 3-10 cm. long; leaflets 3-8 cm. long, ovate or oval, or those of the lower leaves 

 suborbicular, acute or obtuse, finely pubescent and copiously minutely glandular-dotted 

 above, velutinous beneath; peduncles 4-6 cm. long, densely pubescent and glandular; racemes 

 dense, 3-5 cm. long; rachis densely black-hairy; bracts broadly ovate, acuminate, conspicuously 

 glandular and hirsute; pedicels very short; calyx glandular and long-hirsute with brown, white, 

 or black hairs; tube 5 mm. long; lobes linear-lanceolate, acuminate, the upper four 8-10 mm! 

 long, the lowest one often 12 mm. long; corolla about 15 mm. long; banner obovate, with 

 rounded basal lobes and a short claw; blades of the wings obliquely oblanceolate, obtuse,' twice 

 as long as the claws and with a rounded basal lobe, those of the keel-petals broadly lunate 

 somewhat shorter, without basal lobes; filaments with free tips 1-2 mm. long, the tenth 

 filament more or less adnate; pod ovoid, black-reticulate, short-hairy, 9 rnm. long.' 



Type locality: California. 



Distribution: San Francisco Bay region of California 



Illustrations: H. & A. Bot. Beech. Voy. pi. 80. 



11. Hoita orbicularis (L,indl.) Rydberg. 



Psoralea orbicularis Lindl. Bot. Reg. 23: pi. 1971. 1837. 

 Lotodes orbiculare Kuntze, Rev. Gen. 194. 1891. 



A perennial; stem prostrate and creeping, glabrous or strigose; leaves 3-foliolate; stipules 

 ovate, about 1 cm. long; petioles 1-5 dm. long, conspicuously punctate, glabrous or somewhat 

 short-pubescent; leaflets orbicular or rounded-obovate, 3-8 cm. long, 3-7 cm. wide glabrous 

 to cinereous-puberulent; peduncles erect, 2-6 dm. long; racemes 5-30 cm. long, dense; bracts 

 oblong-lanceolate, scarious, 1-2 cm. long, conspicuously glandular and ciliate; calyx densely 

 villous and glandular, unequally cleft; tube 4-5 mm. long; lobes linear-lanceolate, acuminate, 

 the lowest one about 15 mm. long, the rest about 10 mm. long; corolla reddish-purple, 15 mm. 

 long; banner broadly obovate, with a short claw; blades of the wings oblong-oblanceolate, 12 



