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on the leaves: flowers pale violet-purple, sub-verticillate: bracts 

 lanceolate, deciduous, equaling the pedicel of 4 nun.: calyx with 

 lower lip 8 mm. long, lanceolate, 3 mm. wide at base, entire; 

 upper lip 7 mm. long, more oblong in shape, the base with a 

 prominent blunt spur, the apex two-toothed: corollas i cm. long, 

 8 or 9 mm, deep, width between tips of wings and banner 4 mm.; 

 banner narrow with grooved face, 2 mm. wide at base, where it 

 is marked with several purple dots, a little over i mm. wide 

 at the top, edges turned back and parallel, standing a little over 

 I mm. apart except at the slightly flaring base, in age meeting; 

 wings inflated to short boat-shape, closed dorsally except the 

 space under the lower calyx lobe, the edges raised and sharp^ 

 upper face next the banner nearly plane, 5 mm. across, the edges 

 with a narrow slit between; keel sharply curved, bearded on the 

 upper half, over 2 mm. wide across the base, 4 mm. deep across 

 the middle, the purplish apex short acuminate. 



The type is no. 8312, collected May 23, 1906, in the Sierra 

 foothills west of Bishop, Inyo county, California, growing in 

 sandy soil among low shrubs at "McGee's meadows" just below 

 the house on the opposite side of Birch creek; It was at first 

 thought to be L. andersoniy hni does not at all agree with the 

 description of that species, and does not seem referable to any 

 other known species. t; 



liupinus hesperius 



Tufted perennial: stem multicipital from a thick wobdy 

 rootstock, 2 dm. high, covered at the base with the remains of 

 old stems and leaves, villous with white spreading hairs, often 

 bearing one or two branches near the base: leaves mostly basal^ 

 in length reaching to the inflorescence, the petioles of these 

 about 8 cm. long, blade obovate or obovate-spatulate, 3 cm. long, 

 15 mm. or less wide, sub-acute white tomentose on both sides 

 with longer villous hairs intermingled; stem leaves when pres- 

 ent few, smaller, more oblanceolate: stipules setaceous-acumi- 

 nate, 8 mm. long, densely villous: inflorescence i dm. long, ter- 



