Astragalus guatemalensis Hemsl.

Atelophragma guatemalense (Hemsl.) Rydb. Bull. Torrey
Club 55: 159. 1928.
Astragalus gualemalensis Hemsl. Biol. Centr. Am. Bot. 1: 264. 1880.
A perennial; stems 3-5 dm. long, decumbent, sulcate, sparingly strigose; leaves S-10 cm. long, spreading; stipules scarious, deltoid, 6-9 mm. long, connate; leaiets 25-33, elliptic, 8-15 mm. long, 2-4 mm. wide, glabrous above, pilose beneath, rounded, truncate, or retuse at the apex; peduncles 4-10 cm. long; racemes dense, 2-4 cm. long; bracts 3-4 mm. long, subulate, black-hairy; calyx black-hairy, the tube 3 mm. long, the teeth subulate, 2 mm. long; corolla ochroleucous, 9-10 mm. long, resembling that of A. strigulosum; pod glabrous, comparatively firm, the stipe 2 mm. long, the body oblong, 15 mm. long, 5 mm. wide, acute at each end; septum less than 1 mm. wide; seeds 6-8, brown, 2.5 mm. long.
Type locality: Vulcan de Fuego, Guatemala. Distribution: Guatemala and Chiapas.