Part 6, 1929] FABACEAE: GALEGEAE 375 



6. Strigulosa. Pod distinctly stipitate, turgid, more or less pubescent or glabrous, acute 

 at each end, the sutures equally curved, the lower one or both somewhat sulcate. Corolla 

 small, purple or white; flowers in a long dense raceme. 



24. Atelophragma Painteri (Rose) Rydb. Bull. Torrey Club 



55: 156. 1928. 



Astragalus strigulosus brevidentatus Hemsl. Biol. Centr. Am. Bot. I: 266. 1S80. 

 Astragalus Painteri Rose; M. E. Jones, Rev. Astrag. 189. 1923. 



A perennial; stem branched, 10-15 mm. long, prostrate or ascending, sparingly strigose, 

 striate; leaves 5-10 dm. long, short-petioled, the rachis strigose and sulcate; stipules 3 mm. long, 

 deltoid, hyaline; leaflets 19-25, elliptic or oval, mostly rounded at each end, 6-12 mm. long, 

 2-5 mm. wide, glabrous above, pilose-strigose beneath; peduncles 1-1.5 dm. long, slender; 

 raceme short, 2-4 cm. long; bracts lanceolate or subulate, 3 mm. long, black-hairy; pedicels 

 1 mm. long; calyx black-hairy, the tube 3 mm. long, 2.5 mm. broad, the teeth deltoid, less than 

 1 mm. long; corolla pale-purple or white, about 1 cm. long; banner obovate, moderately arched; 

 wings shorter, the blade obliquely oblanceolate, with a large basal auricle ; keel-petals shorter, 

 the blade obliquely obovate, rounded at the apex; pod glabrous, the stipe 2-3 mm. long, the 

 body oblong, acute at each end, terete, 15-18 mm. long, 5 mm. wide; septum 1 mm. wide; seeds 

 12-16, dark-brown, 2.5 mm. long. 



Type locality: Sierra de Ajusco, "Morales" [Morelos]. 



Distribution: Morelos. 



Illustration: M. E. Jones, Rev. Astrag. pi. 43, f. 14S. 



25. Atelophragma tolucanum (Rob. & Seaton) Rydb. Bull. 



Torrey Club 55: 156. 1928. 



Astragalus toliicanns Rob. & Seaton, Proc. Am. Acad. 28: 104. 1893. 



A perennial, with a thick woody root; stems 1-2 dm. long, branched, ascending, strigose, 

 slender; leaves 4-6 cm. long, spreading, short-petioled, the rachis sulcate, nearly glabrous; 

 stipules hyaline, ovate or deltoid, 5-7 mm. long ; leaflets 1 7-25, elliptic to obovate, 4-7 mm. long, 

 2-3 mm. wide, cuneate at the base, rounded, truncate, or retuse at the apex; peduncles 3-5 cm. 

 long; racemes many-flowered, 3-5 cm. long; bracts oblanceolate, 5-6 mm. long, hyaline, 

 pubescent ; calyx black-hairy, the tube 3 mm. long, 2.5 mm. broad, the teeth narrowly lanceolate, 

 3.5 mm. long; corolla variegated with bluish-purple and yellow; banner about 12 mm. long, 

 broadly obovate, moderately arched, striped with bluish-purple and yellow; wings 10 mm. long, 

 the blade purple, oblanceolate, arcuate, with a large reflexed auricle, the claw yellow; keel- 

 petals 7-8 mm. long, the blade broadly lunate, nearly semiorbicular, reddish-purple and 

 rounded at the apex; pod glabrous, the stipe 2-3 mm. long, the body ellipsoid, acutish at each 

 end, 12-15 mm. long, 6 mm. broad. 



Type locality: Nevado de Toluca, State of Mexico. 

 Distribution: Known only from the type locality. 

 Illustration: M. E. Jones, Rev. Astrag. pi. 43, f. 149. 



26. Atelophragma jaliscense Rydb. Bull. Torrey Club 

 55: 157. 1928. 



A perennial, with a cespitose caudex; stems branched, angled, sparingly and finely pubes- 

 cent with ascending hairs; leaves 5-8 cm. long, ascending; stipules deltoid, about 5 mm. long; 

 leaflets 19-25, oblong or elliptic, 5-10 mm. long, 2-4 mm. wide, obtuse, strigose beneath, 

 glabrate or sparingly pubescent above; peduncles 5-15 cm. long; racemes 3-6 cm. long; bracts 

 subulate, 2-3 mm. long; pedicels very short; calyx more or less black-hairy, the tube 3 mm. long, 

 the teeth subulate, nearly 2 mm. long; corolla white or cream-colored, about 1 cm. long; banner 

 narrowly obovate, moderately arched; wings slightly shorter, the blade linear-oblong, falcate, 

 with a large basal auricle; wing-petals still shorter, the blade lunate, obtuse; pod glabrous, the 



