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31. Phaca Parishii (A. Gray) Rydberg. 



Astragalus Parishii A. Grav. Proc. Am. Acad. 19: 75. 1883. 

 Astragalus Douglasii Parishii M. E. Jones, Contr. W. Bot. 8: 6. 1898. 



Perennial; stem 5-10 dm. high, sparingly strigose when young, glabrate in age, or glabrous 

 from the beginning, striate; leaves 8-15, ascending; stipules broadly deltoid, 4-5 mm. long; 

 leaflets 1 1-25, oblong to elliptic-obovate, 1-2.5 cm. long, 2-8 mm. wide, ottuse to retuse, some- 

 what strigose-canescent when young, in age greener; peduncles 5-10 cm. long; racemes rather 

 lax, 5-10 cm. long; bracts lanceolate, 1-2 mm. long; calyx canescent-strigose, the tube 4 mm. 

 long, the lobes deltoid or lanceolate, 1-2 mm. long; corolla ochroleucous, about 1 cm. long; 

 banner obovate, strongly reflexed; wings decidedly shorter, the blade lunate, with a reflexed 

 basal auricle, about equaling the claw; keel-petals similar but broader and more curved; pod 

 strigose, somewhat cancscent when young, membranous, ellipsoid, sessile, 4-5 cm. long, 2-2.5 

 cm. wide; seeds obliquely reniform, 2-2.5 mm. long. 



Type locality: San Bernadino County. California. 



Distribution: Southern California, north to Kern County, and northern Lower California. 



Illustration: M. E. Jones, Rev. Astrag. pi. 16. 



32. Phaca perstricta Rydberg, sp. nov. 



Perennial; stem strict, 4—6 dm. high, erect, stiiate, sparingly strigose when young, soon 

 glabrate; leaves 10-15 cm. long; stipules deltoid, 3 mm. long, deciduous; leaflets 13-19, oblong 

 or oblong-obovate, 1-2.5 cm. long, 3-6 mm. wide, mostly obtuse, strigose on both sides; racemes 

 including the peduncles 10-13 cm. long, bearing the flowers above the middle; bracts lanceolate, 

 2 mm. long; calyx stiigose-canescent, the tube scarcely 3 mm. long, the teeth deltoid, 1 mm. 

 long; corolla ochroleucous, about 1 cm. long, resembling that of P. oocarpa; pod elongate- 

 ellipsoid, 5-6 cm. long, 2-2.5 cm. wide, sparingly strigulose. 



Type collected in a hill valley between Campo and Jocumba, San Diego County, California, 

 May 28, 1903, Abrams 3636 (herb. N. Y. Bot. Gard.). 



Distribution: Southern California and Lower California. 



10. Douglasianae. Tall perennials, with oblong to elliptic, glabrous or strigose leaflets. 

 Calyx-lobes subulate, fully half as long as the tube. Corolla yellowish or purplish, 1 cm. 

 long or more; banner moderately arched. Pod sessile, large, elliptic, much inflated, round 

 in cross-section. 



33. Phaca Douglasii T. & G. Fl. N. Am. 1: 346. 1838. 



Astragalus Douglasii A. Gray, Proc. Am. Acad. 6: 215. 1864. 

 Tragacaniha Douglasii Kuntze, Rev. Gen. 944. 1891. 

 Astragalus tejonensis M. E. Jones, Proc. Calif. Acad. II. 5: 644. 1895. 

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



Perennial, with a cespitose caudey; stem erect, 2-4 dm. high, striate, glabrate or strigose; 

 leaves ascending, 7-12 cm. long; stipules deltoid, distinct, 4 mm. long; rachis sparingly strigose 

 or glabrate; leaflets 15-23, rather firm, elliptic or oblong, S-20 mm. long, 3-8 mm. wide, more 

 or less strigose or in age glabrate; peduncles 3-4 cm. long; racemes 5-15-flowered, 2-4 cm. long; 

 calyx rather densely but finely white-strigose, the tube 3 mm. long, the lobes subulate, 2 mm. 

 long; corolla yellowish or straw-colored, 10 mm. long; banner obovate, reflexed; wings slightly 

 shoi ter, the blade obliquely oblong, with an acute basal auricle ; wing-petals still shorter, strongly 

 arcuate, rounded at the apex; pod rather elongate-ellipsoid, 3-4 cm. long and 1.5 cm. wide, 

 strigulose. 



Type locality: California [probably Monterey|. 



Distribution: San Benito and Monterey counties, California, and southward, to northern 

 Lower California. 



Illustrations: M. E. Jones, Rev. Astrag. pi. 15; pi. 16, f. 62 (including var. tejonensis). 



34. Phaca megalophysa Rydberg, sp. nov. 



Perennial, with a cespitose caudex; stems 4—6 dm. high, striate and angled, glabrous or 

 sparingly strigose; leaves ascending, 10-15 cm. long; stipules lance-deltoid, 4-5 mm. long; 



