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flowers few, in 



a loose raceme, wings oblong-, 4"-5'' long, rose-colored, la- 

 teral petals linear, as long as the keel, keel cucullate, yellow- 

 ish, provided with a thick, blunt beak which is rather short 

 and not erect; capsule obovate, emarginatc, about 3" long; 

 seeds hairy. 



NrT'a^^a.—Near Silver City, 1862, Kellogg, (type). 

 Southern Utah. — i873,Capt. Bishop; Kanab, Mrs. Thompson; 

 ^^ Southern Utah, etc.," 1874, Dr. C. C. Parry, No. 32; 

 "Southern Utah, Northern Arizona, etc.," 1877, Dr. E. Pal- 

 mer, No. 50. 



Type in Herb. Gray. 

 32. P. RUSBYT, Greene, Bull. Torr. Bot. Club, x. 125, (1883). 



Hoary-pubescent; low; stems, several or many from a 

 Avoody rootstock, 2'-6' long, rather stout, branchini^, spread- 

 ing, reclining or decumbent, leafy, without spines; leaves 

 alternate, numerous, nearly or quite sessile, 3"-8" long, canes- 

 cent, the largest about 3" broad, elliptical, orobovate-elliptical, 

 in most cases acute ; racemes loosely 4-8 flowered, bracts 

 scarious-margined, ciliate, pedicels 2"-3"Iong; flowers showy, 

 4"_5" long, the lowest often pendulous, wings somewhat con- 

 cave, narrowly obovate or oblong, venose, flesli -colored or 

 purplish, somewhat longer than the keel, lateral petals often 

 longer than the keel, narrow, venose, in some cases retuse, 

 keel yellowish, provided with a rather large, almost 

 straight, blunt beak; stamens eight in number, anthers 

 emarginate at summit; style long, curved, broadening some- 

 what above, neither cucullate nor auriculate, stigma indis- 

 tinctly bilabiate, the lower lip often minutely bearded be- 

 neath. 



Arizona. — 1870, Dr. Palmer; near Prescott, 1883, H. H. 



Rusby, (type); Prescott, 1876, Dr. E. Palmer, No. 34, (clist. 



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Jones, (dist. as P. suhsp 



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hart's Ranche, 1883, H. H. Rusby, No. 525; I'ort Verde. Dr. 



E. A. Mearns, (No. 323 ?). 



The above species is referred to. in the original descrip- 



