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long, 12 mm. wide, glabrous above and somewhat sparsely hir- 

 sute below, margins conspicuously dentate serrate; petioles (in 

 the type) rather long, the longest 6 cm., in specimens from La 

 Paz rather short, the longest 2 cm., all more or less hirsute; 

 lower stipules scarious and linear-lanceolate, the upper ones 

 broadly ovate, somewhat hirsute, adnate to the petiole for one 

 half their length: peduncles (in the type) shorter than the peti- 

 oles; in the La Paz specimens somewhat longer than the peti- 

 oles, densely hirsute: heads about 1.5 cm. in diameter, 10 to 20 

 flowered: pedicels about 3 mm. long, reflexed in age, with nu- 

 merous small, scarious, subulate bracts at the base: calyx lobes 

 3 mm. long, broad at the base, margins irregular; tube 2 mm. 

 long, pubescent: corolla extending only slightly beyond the 

 calyx teeth; vexillum very broad, 5 mm. long and as wide; wing 

 blade 2.5 mm. long, claw 1.5 mm. long; keel blade 2 mm. long, 

 claw .5 mm. long: pod oval, one or two seeded: seeds large* 

 rounded, 1.5 mm. long. 



The plant belongs in the amabile group, but can not be 

 identified with that or any of the more recently described spe- 

 cies of House in the Botanical Gazette 41: 342. 1906. 



Bolivia: Bang 28 ig (type in the herbarium of Parke, 

 Davis & Co.); near La Paz, loooo feet. Bang igi^ 1890, Rusby 

 1012^ loij^ 10 1 ^^ April, 1885. 



EXPLORATIONS OF WILLL\M LOBB 



[The name of Lobb has been made familiar to many botan- 

 ists by the several species bearing his name, such as the beauti- 

 ful alpine Eriogomim Lobbii and the no less striking Ribes 

 Lobbii^ but few of us know anything of the man himself. The 

 following welcome sketch has been sent us by Miss Eastwood, 

 now engaged in studying American types located in English 

 herbaria. The sketch is copied from Veitch's Manual of Con- 

 iferae, new edition by Adolphus H. Kent, page 243, published 

 in 1900. — Eds.] 



"William Lobb ( 1809-1863) was born in the ea.stern divis- 

 ion of Cornwall. The place is unknown, nor is anything known 



