CATALOGUE. 103 
to 15 lines long: pod 2 inches long, upon a stipe as long as the calyx, 3 or 
4 lines broad: seed with a very narrow funiculus and short hilum.—From 
Northern Colorado to New Mexico and Central Arizona; at Santa Fé, 
Rothrock (3, 9), and in Arizona, 1872. 
CoLogantA* LonerrotiA, Gray (Pl. Wright. ii, 35).—Perennial, climb- 
ing, 2 or 3 feet high, pubescent throughout with short appressed hairs or 
nearly glabrous: leaflets 3, rarely 4 or 5, linear to linear-oblong, 1 to 4 
inches long, about equalling the petiole, obtuse, mucronate, reticulated 
beneath, glabrous above: flowers solitary in the axils, on short pedicels, 
purple, 9 lines long, twice longer than the calyx: pods straight, narrowly 
linear, an inch and a half long, pubescent, 10-14-seeded.—_New Mexico 
and Arizona; on the Mogollon Mesa, Loew on and at Willow Spring, 
Ariz., Rothrock (214). 
LER TEPHRODES, Gray (PI. Wright. i ii, 34)—Perennial, low and 
erect or twining, 2 or 3 feet high, canescent with soft appressed pubescence : 
leaflets 3, oblong to linear-oblong, obtuse at each end, mucronate, an inch 
long, smoother above, exceeding the petioles: flowers scattered in usually 
elongated racemes, half an inch long, twice longer than the calyx: pods 
somewhat curved, linear, nearly two inches long, appressed-pubescent.— 
New Mexico and Arizona; near Camp Bowie, Rothrock (487). 
PuasEotus Wrieutu, Gray (Pl. Wright. i, 43).—Stems prostrate or 
twining, slender, from a perennial woody fusiform root; sparingly rough- 
pubescent: leaflets 1 or 2 inches in diameter, hastately lobed, the lateral 
lobes quadrangular, often repand at the end, the terminal one oblong, 
obtuse or acute, mucronate: peduncles exceeding the leaves, few-flowered : 
flowers purple, 3 to 8 lines long, exceeding the pedicels: pods an inch long, 
reflexed, compressed, faleate, pubescent, 6—8-seeded.—New Mexico and 
Arizona; on Mount Graham, at 9,250 feet altitude, and at Chiricahua 
Agency, Rothrock (417, 535), and in woods on Mogoilon Mesa, Loew 
(206). 
*CoLoGanta, Konth.—Calyx tubular; upper teeth connate, the lower one longest. Standard 
obovate, with broad claw and reflexed sides; keel shorter, slightly incurved. Stamens diadelphous ; 
anthers uniform. Style naked: stigma capitate. Pod linear, straight, compressed, stipitate, 2-val 
somewhat partitioned between the several seeds.—T wining herbs, with 3- (rarely 1-5-) foliolate leaves, 
 pather large axillary purple or rose-colored flowers, and persistent narrow bracts and bractlets.—BenTH. 
& Hook. Gen. PI. i, 529. 
