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ulate, free, 4 mm. long, very silky villous: peduncles 3 cm. long: 

 inflorescence about 5 cm. long, the flowers verticillate, dense: 

 pedicels rather stout, 3 mm. long: bracts lanceolate, acuminate, 

 6 mm. long, 1.5 mm. wide: upper calyx lip 5 mm. long, 4 mm. 

 wide when spread out, broadly notched, the lobes rounded; lower 

 lip 6mm. long, 3mm. wide, 3-toothed; a subulate bractlet imm. 



Figure 22. Floral parts of Lupimis obtu^ilobus, enlarged. 



long in the sinus: corollas violet-purple, icm. long and as deep, 

 a space 4 mm. wide between apices of banner and wings; banner 

 broader than long when spread out, the face 5 nun. long, deeply 

 grooved, edges apparently but little turned back; wings moder- 

 ately inflated, exposing the keel for a short distance only, the 

 lower edges well rounded, 7 mm. deep at the middle; keel mod- 

 erately curved, 4 nun. deep, somewhat ciliate ihronghout, the 

 acuminate apex purple. 



The t\'pe, in the herbarium of A. A. Heller, is George B. 

 Grant jjo, collected on Mt. Shasta, California, at an altitude of 

 8000 feet, September, 1902, distributed as ''Lttpinus ornatus 

 Ai-.ct." It bears but little resemblance to L. ornatus of eastern 

 Washington and northern Idaho. It was also collected on Mt. 

 Shasta, August 15, 1903, by Copeland, distributed by C. F. Baker 

 under no. jgi8 as ^'Liipimis Andersonh Gray," a species local 

 in the mountains of westtrn Nevada, and not as yet detected in 

 California. 



