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corolla. The flowers are 12-15 mm. long, and are borne in erect, 

 axillary, pedunculate racemes 6-15 cm. long, the peduncles 

 about the length of the subtending leaves. The pedicels are 5-8 

 mm. long. The calyx is campanulate, 3-4 mm. long, the teeth 

 about 1 mm. long, acute, the two upper separated from the 

 three lower by a broad, shallow sinus. The corolla is red-orange, 

 the upraised standard with a bilobed yellow spot at the base of 

 the blade, the keel yellow except for the apical third. The 

 stamens are diadelphous, the ovary stipitate, densely fine- 

 pubescent, the style barbate on the upper side, the stigma 

 capitate. The fruits are bladdery-inflated, one-celled, paper 

 legumes, rounded at the tip, finely pubescent and borne on 

 deflexed pedicels, the protruding stipes again reflexed, bringing 

 the pod to a horizontal position. The seeds are small and 

 numerous, black, orbicular-reniform. 



New York Botanical Garden 

 Dec. 1936 



Since writing the above, the writer has identified for the 

 Carnegie Museum, Pittsburgh, a specimen of Sphaerophysa Sal- 

 sula collected near Fruitland, Utah, by Margaret T. Doutt on 

 August 14, 1936. 



E.J. A. 

 Jan. 1937 



