December 20, 1905 . . 7^- 



above. The original description calls for "canlibns decnmbent- 



ibus." 



Lupiiius odoratus 



Annual, section Platycarpos^ somewhat fleshy, 1.5-2.5 dm. 

 high: leaves basal; petioles 8 cm. long or less, stout, 3-nerved at 

 the enlarged base, somewhat villous with white hairs; leaflets 

 commonly 9, oblanceolate, 2 cm. long or less, 7mm. wide below 

 the rounded but acutish apex, bright green, at first decidedly 

 villous but becoming glabrous except for the few tufts of hairs 

 at the apex and near it: scape-like peduncle yellowish, equal- 

 ling or exceeding the leaves: inflorescence 5 or 6 cm. long: nar- 

 rowly linear-lanceolate persistent bracts 2 or 3 mm. long, with a 

 tuft of long hairs at the apex: pedicels slender, 6 mm. long, as- 

 cending, glabrous, readily disarticulating from the stem: flowers 

 not whorled, pleasantly scented, deep violet purple except for a 

 yellow oblong spot on the face of the banner, about i cm. long, 

 8 mm. across: calyx dull green, the lobes obtuse, the lower 

 nearly 4 mm. long, sometimes slightly 3-toothed, the upper 

 entire, 2 mm. long; a small bractl^ i mm. long in the sinus be- 

 tween the lobes: banner broad (i cm.), the edges only slightly 

 turned back, presenting a scoop-like appearance viewed from the 

 back; wings about 2 mm. shorter than the banner, inflated and 

 open below, the opening ovate, nearly 3 mm. wide below, the 

 upper edges closed or showing only a small slit; keel not pro- 

 truding from the open wings, rather strongly curved, 3 mm. 

 wide for about two-thirds its length, then tapering to the acute 

 apex,' glabrous, narrowly hyaline margined almost throughout: 

 pods yellow^ish, oblong, i cm. lon^, 6 mm. wide, oblique at 

 either end, the ventral margin with a fringe of long hairs, the 

 seeds grey, wrinkled, about 2 mm. in diameter, one of them 

 often abortive. 



The type is no. 7673, collected April 13, 1905, at Kramer, 

 San Bernardino county, California, on the Mojave desert; the 

 pods and .seeds described from a specimen collected at the same 



