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late, barely acute, not contiguous, 1)4,' long; peduncles 

 about 1° long, floriferous on the upper third; flowers 

 racemose, nearly sessile, with ovate bracts shorter than 

 the pedicels; calyx broadly campanulate, tube i" long; 

 teeth triangular and about one-third the tube ; flowers 

 purple; banner 3" long, bent abruptly and remotely from 

 the calyx tips to 45-90°, oval, sides reflexed; wings arched 

 60°, and exposing the base of keel, oblong, ^" shorter 

 than the banner; keel abruptly bent to 110°, and apex 

 produced to a point, i}-^" high, base of blade a trifle 

 arched, about i" shorter than the wings, light colored; 

 flowers horizontal, about 3" apart; pods lenticular, much 

 the shape of the Kenlro^hyta group when flat beaked, 

 the upper }4 or }^ perfectly flat and triangular-acute, 

 the ventral suture nearly straight, cross-section oval near 

 the base of the pod, chartaceous, narrowed at very base, 

 iDut sessile, lunate, i-celled, seed-bearing in the middle, 

 4" long, 2^" wide. 



The t3^pe is in the California Academy of Sciences. 



Astragalus yalianiis. San Julio, Lower California, 

 Brandegee, April 19, 1889. This appears to be near to A . 

 sahulonum. Annual, erect; inflorescence corymbiform 

 by the shortening of the upper nodes ; stems mostly shaggy 

 with partly spreading hairs, except the rather shortly and 

 sparsely pubescent pods; nodes 6" to i' apart; leaves 4' 

 long, of 7-8 pairs of narrowly elliptical acutish leaflets, 

 which are 6" long and i to ij" wide; proper petiole 6-9" 

 long; peduncles stout, as long as the leaves, the rachis 

 as long in fruit; flowers in a close raceme, lax in fruit, 

 nearly sessile, reflexed and fruit also ; calyx campanulate, 

 tube i" long, subulate teeth about the same; pods ob- 

 liquely-oval, swelled to circular in the middle, contracted 

 at base, with a flat, triangular, acuminate beak, 2" long, 

 which is nearly central; ventral suture thick, not sulcate. 



