December 20, 1909 M7 



much more than half as long as the flower. The corolla does 

 not differ. 



I have made an effort to see the type of this species, but so 

 far have not been able to do so. The following specimens have 

 been examined: 



Esmeralda county: Candelaria, Shockley 51. 

 HUMBOLDT county: Coyote mountains, Watson 22 j. 

 Washoe county: Truckee Pass, Kennedy 'JJ3; Heller 

 8646. 



Lupinus malacophyllus Greene, Pittonia 1: 215. 1888. 



Plate 4. f. 7-12 



Plant 1 to 1.5 dm. high, at first with a single flowering 

 stem, at length sending out several horizontal branches which 

 are decumbent at base, as long as the ascending ones, giving the 

 plant a spread of twice the height; pubescent throughout except 

 the upper surface of the leaflets with long and soft spreading 

 white hairs about 2111m. long: leaves up to 6 cm. long, two- 

 thirds of which is petiole; leaflets 5 to 7, obovate-lanceolate, 

 obtuse, the largest 15 mm. long, 7 mm. wide, equally green on 

 both surfaces: racemes commonly exceeding the leaves from the 

 first, 6 or 7 cm. long when mature, verticillate, at least below; 

 peduncles about equalling the racemes: pedicels 2 mm. long: 

 bracts green, subulate, 5 to 7 mm. long: upper calyx lobe barely 

 2 111 111. long, scarious except at the greenish, 2-toothed apex; 

 lower calyx lobe 8 or 9mm. long, shortly 3-toothed; a subulate 

 green bractlet 1 mm. long in the sinus: flowers white tinged 

 with purple, often drying bluish, about 13 mm. long and as 

 deep, 5111111. broad, "a space of 8 mm. between apices of banner 

 and wings; banner yellowish on the face, marked with purple 

 dots in the groove, apex very shallowly notched, sides reflexed 

 and the edges almost parallel except at the slightly flaring base, 

 where thev are 5 mm. apart; wings moderately inflated, 5 mm. 

 wide across the middle, oblique below the apex and exposing 

 the keel, closed along the upper edges: keel a little over 2 mm. 

 wide across the elbow, glabrous: pods about 15 mm. long, 5 to 

 6mm. wide, villous like the stem and leaves, 2-seedeu: seeds 

 pale brown or reddish when mature, or sometimes whitish, some- 

 what lenticular-ovoid, about 3 mm. wide and slightly longer. 



