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lanceolate, 1-5 cm. long, 4 mm. wide and high, slightly sulcate on the lower suture, the 

 septum almost obsolete. 



Type locality: Toboggan, in the Sacramento Mountains, New Mexico. 

 Distribution: New Mexico. 



37. Atelophragma bracteatum Rydb. Bull. Torrey Club 

 55: 161. 1928. 



A perennial; stems 5 dm. high or more, decumbent at the base, sparingly short- pubescent; 

 leaves 5-7 cm. long; stipules lanceolate, acuminate, 5 mm. long; leaflets 13-25, linear-oblong 

 to elliptic, 5-12 mm. long, 2-4 mm. wide, strigose beneath, glabrous above, obtuse to retuse at 

 the apex; peduncles 5-10 cm. long; racemes many-flowered, 3-7 cm. long; bracts lanceolate or 

 lance-linear, 6-8 mm. long, black-hairy and purple-tinged; calyx black-hairy, the tube 4 mm. 

 long, the teeth lance-subulate, 3-5 mm. long; corolla purple, about 1 cm. long; banner obovate, 

 moderately arched; wings shorter, the blade semi-ovate, lunate, with a large auricle; keel- 

 petals broadly lunate, rounded at the apex; pod minutely black-strigose, the stipe about 

 equaling the calyx-tube, the body ellipsoid, 1—1.5 cm. long, 6-S mm. wide, abruptly contracted 

 at each end; septum less than 1 mm. broad; seeds about 12. 



Type locality: Sierra de Toluca, State of Mexico. 

 Distribution: Known only from the type locality. 



38. Atelophragma Lozani (Rose) Rydb. Bull. Torrey Club 

 55: 161. 1928. 



Astragalus gualemalensis Lozani M. E. Jones. Rev. Astrag. 189. 1923. 

 Astragalus Lozani Rose; M. E. Jones, Rev. Astrag. 189, as a synonym. 1923. 



A cespitose perennial; stems several, slender, decumbent, 2-4 dm. long, sparingly strigose; 

 leaves 5-7 dm. long; stipules lanceolate, attenuate, 3-4 mm. long; leaflets 13-21, oval or obo- 

 vate, 5-12 mm. long, rounded or more often retuse at the apex, thin, glabrous above, long-pilose 

 beneath; peduncles 6-8 cm. long; racemes short, 2-3 cm. long; bracts lanceolate, 3 mm. long; 

 pedicels 1 mm. long; calyx black-hairy, the tube 3 mm. long, nearly as broad, the teeth subulate, 

 2.5 mm. long; corolla purple, 10—11 mm. long; banner obovate, moderately arcuate; wings 

 nearly as long, the blade oblanceolate-falcate; keel-petals much horUr, the blade obliquely 

 obovate, rounded at the apex; pod strigulose with black hairs, the stipe 4—5 mm. long, the body 

 broadly ellipsoid, about 15 mm. long, 7 mm. wide; septum 1 mm. broad; seeds 12-14. 



Type locality: Sierra de Pachuca, Hidalgo. 



Distribution: Hidalgo. 



Illustration: M. E. Jones, Rev. Astrag. pi. 43, f. 6. 



39. Atelophragma cobrense (A. Gray) Rydb. Bull. Torrey Club 

 55: 162. 1928. 



Astragalus cobrensis A. Gray, PI. Wright. 2: 43. 1853. 

 Tragacantha cobrensis Kuntze, Rev. Gen. 944. 1891. 



A cespitose perennial; stems several, decumbent at the base, 1-2 dm. high, sparingly 

 strigose; leaves spreading, 2-4 cm. long, the rachis strigose; stipules ovate, 3 mm. long, at least 

 the lower connate; leaflets 11-18, obovate, cuneate at the base, usually retuse at the apex, 

 3-8 mm. long, 1.5-4 mm. wide, glabrous above, pilose beneath ; peduncles 2-5 cm. long; racemes 

 1-3 cm. long; bracts lanceolate, 2 mm. long; pedicels about 2 mm. long; calyx strigose with 

 mixed white and black hairs, the tube 1.5 mm. long, 1 mm. wide, the teeth nearly 1.5 mm. long, 

 subulate; corolla purplish, 7 mm. long; banner obovate, strongly arched at the middle, retuse 

 at the apex; wings much shorter, the blade oblanceolate, falcate; keel-petals still shorter, the 

 blade obliquely obovate; pod grayish-strigose* almost sessile, the body elliptic, 12-15 mm. long, 

 about 6 mm. wide and 4 mm. high, slightly sulcate on the lower suture, the septum fully 1 

 mm. wide. 



Type locality: Santa Rita del Cobre, New Mexico. 

 Distribution: Mountains of southwestern New Mexico. 

 Illustration: M. E. Jones, Rev. Astrag. pi. 42. f. 146. 



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