Part 7, 1929] FAB ACE AE: GALEGEAE 433 



45. Hamosa militaris (M. E. Jones) Rydberg, Bull. Torrey Club 

 54: 332. 1927. 



Astragalus militaris M. E. Jones, Rev. Astrag. 278. 1923. 



A perennial; stems several, decumbent at the base, slender, 2-4 dm. long, glabrous or 

 nearly so, striate; leaves 4-8 cm. long, spreading or ascending; stipules lanceloate, 2-3 mm. 

 long, green, strigose; leaflets 11-17, elliptic to narrowly oblong, 5-15 mm. long, 2-5 mm. wide, 

 obtuse or rounded at the apex, strigose beneath, glabrous above; peduncles erect, 7-10 cm. 

 long; bracts lanceolate, 1-2 mm. long, ciliolate; calyx sparingly strigose, the tube 2.5 mm. long, 

 the teeth subulate, 1 mm. long; corolla dark-purple, 7-8 mm. long; banner obovate, deeply 

 notched, strongly arched; wings nearly as long, the blade lanceolate, acutish, strongly falcate; 

 keel-petals much shorter, broadly lunate, rounded at the apex; pod reflexed, lance-oblong, 

 falcate, acute at each end, 12-15 mm. long, 2 mm. wide and 3 mm. thick, finely strigose with 

 white hairs, acutely sulcate on the lower suture, deeply cordate in cross-section. 



Type locality: Soldier Canon, Sierra Madre, Chihuahua. 

 Distribution: Chihuahua and San Luis Potosi. 

 Illustration: M. E. Jones, Rev. Astrag. pi. 70, f. 257. 



46. Hamosa Saltonis (M. E. Jones) Rydb. Bull. Torrey Club 

 54:332. 1927. 



Astragalus Saltonis M. E. Jones, Rev. Astrag. 279. 1923. 



A perennial, with creeping rootstock; stems decumbent, flexuose, often branched below, 

 3-4 dm. high, sparingly strigose, sulcate; leaves spreading, 6-10 cm. long, the rachis strigose; 

 stipules deltoid, 3-4 mm. long; leaflets 17-29, linear or oblong, obtuse, glabrous above, strigose 

 beneath, 10-18 mm. long, 1-3 mm. wide; peduncles about 1 dm. long; racemes elongate, many- 

 flowered, 5-10 cm. long; bracts lanceolate, 3-5 mm. long; pedicels 1 mm. long, reflexed; calyx 

 black-hairy, the tube 2 mm. long and nearly as broad, gibbous at the base on the upper side, 

 the teeth subulate, 1 mm. long; corolla white, only the keel sometimes tipped with purple; 

 banner broadly obovate, 5-7 mm. long, strongly arched at the middle; wings nearly as long, 

 the blade obliquely obovate, falcate, with a large auricle; keel-petals slightly shorter, the 

 blade broadly obliquely obovate, with a large auricle; pod 1-1.5 cm. long, 3 mm. wide and thick, 

 black-hairy with short hairs, oblong, slightly falcate, obliquely acute at the apex, the lower 

 suture sulcate. 



Type locality: Salto de Aqua, State of Mexico. 



Distribution: Puebla to Hidalgo. 



Illustration: M. E. Jones, Rev. Astrag. pi. 70, f. 258. 



47. Hamosa Goldmani (M. E. Jones) Rydb. Bull. Torrey Club 

 54: 332. 1927. 



Astragalus Goldmani M. E. Jones, Rev. Astrag. 281. 1923. 



A perennial, from a cespitose caudex; stems striate, erect, 2-3 dm. high, minutely strigose; 

 leaves ascending, 4-7 cm. long; stipules lanceolate, 4-6 mm. long, herbaceous, distinct; leaflets 

 13-19, oblong to obovate, 5-12 cm. long, 2-4 mm. wide, strigose beneath, glabrate above, light- 

 green; peduncles 6-10 cm. long, lax in fruit; calyx black-hairy, the tube barely 2 mm. long, 

 the teeth subulate, 1 mm. long; corolla ochroleucous or white, 5-6 mm. long; banner broadly 

 obovate, retuse, strongly arched; wings fully as long, the blade broadly elliptic, with a basal 

 auricle; keel-petals shorter, the blade broadly lunate, rounded at the apex; pod 7-9 mm. long, 

 2 mm. wide and 3-4 mm. thick, white-silky-strigose, half-ovate, slightly arched, sulcate on the 

 lower suture, broadly cordate in cross-section. 



Type locality: Parral, Chihuahua. 

 Distribution: Chihuahua and Durango. 

 Illustration: M. E. Jones, Rev. Astrag. pi. 70, f. 263. 



48. Hamosa hidalgensis Rydb. Bull. Torrey Club 54: 333. 1927. 



A perennial; stem 4-6 dm. high, striate, glabrous or minutely strigulose; leaves 6-10 cm' 

 long, spreading; stipules deltoid, 3-4 mm. long, distinct; leaflets 21-29, oblong, 10-20 mm 



