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genus, the herbage smooth appearing, and the lower calyx lip 

 very broad. With the exception of the species described here, 

 they are all plants of the immediate coast region. This new 

 plant was found about fifty miles inland. 



Lupinus ligiiipes sp. nov. 

 Perennial (§Arborei): woodv stems prostrate, i cm. or less 

 in diameter, herbaceous branches of the season eiect, stout, hol- 

 low, 3 to 4 dm. long, numerous, the whole forming a compact 

 clump 4 to 6 dm. across, the stems pale, somewhat pubescent 

 with short, appressed, clear white hairs, sparingly leafy: leaflets 

 commonly 7, elliptical-oblanceolate, 3.5 cm. long or less, 8 mm. 

 wide or less, bright green and glabrous above, paler beneath 



Fitrure 8. Floral parts of Lnpifiits Hgnipes, enlarged 



with short appressed hairs, the lowermost ones the smallest, 

 the apex rounded, the larger upper ones acute or acutish; peti- 

 oles slender, pubescent like the stem, 3 to 5 cm. long; stipules 

 subulate, i cm. long, the apex incurved: peduncles rarely over 

 8 cm. lonor, about the length of the inflorescence: flowers in 

 about four whorls, large, violet and white: bracts subulate, icm. 



