Astragalus guatemalensis var. lozani M. E. Jones

Atelophragma lozani (Rose) Rydb. Bull. Torrey Club 55: 161. 1928.
Astragalus gualemalensis Lozani M. E. Jones. Rev. Astrag. 189. 1923. Astragalus Lozani Rose; M. E. Jones, Rev. Astrag. 189, as a synonym. 1923.
A cespitose perennial; stems several, slender, decumbent, 2-4 dm. long, sparingly strigose; leaves 5-7 dm. long; stipules lanceolate, attenuate, 3-4 mm. long; leaflets 13-21, oval or obovate, 5-12 mm. long, rounded or more often retuse at the apex, thin, glabrous above, long-pilose beneath; peduncles 6-8 cm. long; racemes short, 2-3 cm. long; bracts lanceolate, 3 mm. long; pedicels 1 mm. long; calyx black-hairy, the tube 3 mm. long, nearly as broad, the teeth subulate, 2.5 mm. long; corolla purple, 10—11 mm. long; banner obovate, moderately arcuate; wings nearly as long, the blade oblanceolate-falcate; keel-petals much horUr, the blade obliquely obovate, rounded at the apex; pod strigulose with black hairs, the stipe 4—5 mm. long, the body broadly ellipsoid, about 15 mm. long, 7 mm. wide; septum 1 mm. broad; seeds 12-14.
Type locality: Sierra de Pachuca, Hidalgo.
Distribution: Hidalgo.