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draceous, more than half the length of the (purplish ?) corolla, silky 

 with white and a few dark hairs ; the teeth subulate-triangular, equal, 

 only half the length of the tube. Ovary tomerdose, elongated-oblong, 

 one-celled, but with some introflexion of the dorsal suture, short- 

 stipitate, about five-ovuled. Fruit not seen. 



Although allied to A. geminiflorus of Humboldt and Bonpland, 

 from the Quitensian Andes, this species is distinguished by its pro- 

 portionally larger leaves, with less crowded, broader, and emarginate 

 leaflets ; its flowers three or four together, and raised on a short but 

 manifest peduncle; its longer and regularly five-toothed calyx, &c. 

 The number of ovules in that species is not mentioned. 



8. Astragalus Brackenridgei, Sp. Nov. 



A. subacaidis vel procumbens; stipulis vaginantibus ramorum novel- 

 lorum imbricatis ; foliis canescenti-villosis ; foliolis 21-27 oblongis 

 obtusis supra glabellis ; spica §-l§-fiora breviter peduncidata petiolum 

 adaiquante; calycis nigro-pubescentis dentibus subulatis tubo cam- 

 panidat) subwqidlongis ; legumine ovoideo-triangidari apicidato dorso 

 sulcato bdoculari, locidis tnonospermis. 



Hab. High Andes of Peru, near Banos. 



Plant with the same aspect and mode of growth as the preceding 

 species, unless that the caudexes or short procumbent stems are more 

 elongateol (the proper root not seen) : these are apparently numerous 

 in a crowded tuft, and are terminated by a dense cluster of the leafy 

 shoots of the season, which are about an inch in length, and imbri- 

 cated witti sheathing stipules, like those of the foregoing species. Leaves 

 canescently villous with finer and more spreading hairs, li to 2 inches 

 long, including the petiole. Leaflets 21 to 27, narrowly oblong, obtuse, 

 smoothish above, mostly conduplicate, 2 to 3 lines long, not very 

 crowded. Flowers 6 to 10, in a spike, on a short but distinct peduncle, 

 together about the length of the petiole. Calyx blackish-pubescent, a line 

 and a half in length, subtended by a shorter and similarly pubescent 

 bract; its broadly subulate teeth nearly as long as the campanulate tube. 

 Corolla apparently purple or white, 3 lines long. Ovary silky-pubes- 



