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long; leaflets elliptic, obtuse, 5-7 mm. long, 2-3 mm. wide, white-villous on both sides; 

 peduncles 1-2 cm. long; racemes 3-6-flowered, subcapitate; bracts lance-subulate, 5 mm. long; 

 calyx black- villous, often purple- tinged, the tube 10-11 mm. long, 2-3 mm. broad, the teeth 

 subulate, 2 mm. long; corolla purplish, about 2 cm. long; banner obovate; wings slightly 

 shorter, the blades oblong, with a large basal auricle; keel-petals slightly shorter, the blade 

 strongly lunate, rounded at the apex; pod ovate, lunate, fully 1.6 cm. long, 8 mm. wide and 

 thick, densely woolly. 



Type locality: Windy rocky place several kilos east of Bingen, Washington. 

 Distribution: Washington. 



42. Xylophacos leucolobus (S. Wats. ) Rydb. Bull. Torrey Club 

 52:371. 1925. 



Astragalus leucolobus S. Wats.; M. E. Jones. Zoe 4: 270. 1893. 

 Astragalus Purshii leucolobus M. E. Jones, Contr. W. Bot. 10: 61. 1902. 

 Phaca leucoloba A. Heller, Muhlenbergia 2: 85. 1905. 

 Astragalus inflexus leucolobus Jepson, Man. Fl. PI. Calif. 573. 1925. 



A cespitose perennial, with a woody caudex; stems ascending, less than 1 dm. high; 

 leaves 5-8 cm. long; stipules lanceolate, 4—5 mm. long, canescent; leaflets 11-17, elliptic, 

 obtuse or acutish, 5-10 mm. long, densely canescent; peduncles 4-12 cm. long; racemes 

 5-12-flowered, often more or less elongate; bracts lanceolate, 4-6 mm. long; calyx short-villous, 

 the tube about 8 mm. long, often purple-tinged, the teeth subulate, 2-3 mm. long; corolla 

 15-18 mm. long, purple; banner obovate, retuse at the apex, slightly arcuate; wings nearly as 

 long, the blade oblong, falcate, with a large basal auricle; keel-petals shorter, the blade lunate, 

 strongly arched and rounded at the apex; pod densely villous, arched throughout, 2 cm. long, 

 nearly 1 cm. thick, and 7 mm. wide, acuminate. 



Type locality: Bear Valley, San Bernardino Mountains, California. 

 Distribution: Southern California from Kern and Inyo counties south. 

 Illustrations: M. E. Jones, Rev. Astrag. pi. 55; Contr. W. Bot. 10: pi. 5. 



43. Xylophacos consectus (Sheldon) Rydberg. 



Astragalus consectus Sheldon, Minn. Bot. Stud. 1: 143. 1894. 

 Astragalus inflexus flocculosus Jepson, Man. Fl. PI. Calif. 573. 1925. 



A cespitose perennial, with a much branched caudex; stems 3-6 cm. long; stipules lanceo- 

 late, 5-7 mm. long, densely white-villous; leaflets 1 1-25, oblong to oval, 5-8 mm. long, rather 

 loosely but densely villous; peduncles 3—6 cm. long; racemes short, 5-8-flowered ; bracts 

 lanceolate, 4-5 mm. long; calyx loosely villous, the tube about 8 mm. long, the teeth 

 subulate, 3 mm. long; corolla purple, 15-18 mm. long; banner broadly obovate, retuse; wings 

 slightly shorter, the blade oblanceolate ; keel-petals shorter, the blade lunate, rounded at the 

 apex; pod densely villous, 2 cm. long, more than 1 cm. thick, arcuate throughout, gradually 

 acute. 



Type locality: Tejon Pass, California. 

 Distribution: Southern California. 



44. Xylophacos argentinus Rydb. Bull. Torrey Club 52: 371. 1925. 



A subacaulescent cespitose perennial; stems very short and leafy; leaves 4-7 cm. long 

 stipules lanceolate, 5 mm. long; leaflets 7-13, broadly obovate, about 1 cm. long, rounded or 

 truncate at the apex, silvery- villous; peduncles 3-5 cm. long; bracts lance-subulate, 3-4 mm 

 long; racemes 2-5-flowered; calyx white-villous, the tube 5-6 mm. long, the teeth subulate 

 2-3 mm. long; corolla ochroleucous, 13-14 mm. long; banner obovate ; wings slightly shorter, 

 the blades linear, acutish; keel-petals broader, arcuate and rounded at the apex; pod densely 

 white-villous, about 2 cm. long, 8 mm. wide, arcuate above the middle, the sutures slightly 

 sulcate. 



Type locality: Lone Pine, California. 

 Distribution: Inyo County, California. 



