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a perennial root; branches as well as leaves subtended by short, con- 
crete, and scarious bracts or stipules: leaves ascending, usually 4°™ 
long, the lower one-fourth petiolate; leaflets glabrous or sparsely 
strigulose, 6-10™ long, 7-9 pairs though the lower ones are much 
scattering, the terminal either in pairs or solitary by abortion, sub- 
sessile, mostly conduplicate in the dried specimens, linear to lanceolate 
to oblanceolate: racemes terminal, 2°" long, upon peduncles 4°™ 
long: calyx subinflated, 4™™ long, terminated by 5 short but nar- 
rowly sharp pointed teeth, short-pediceled, pubescence of black and 
whitish hairs: pod 3°™ long, obovoid inflated, narrowed toward the 
base but not stipitate, reflexed, glabrous, reticulations prominent, 
beautifully mottled with a purple or reddish-violet, falling rather early. 
Summit of Mt. Pinos, Ventura county, California, July 1902. Type speci- 
men, no. 4005, in Herb. Stanford University. 
This variety is chiefly distinguished from the typical form by its scarious 
stipules, more linear leaflets, and in not being stringulose. 
HERBARIUM OF STANFORD UNIVERSITY, 
September 1903. 
