Hoita glandulosa

Hoita glandulosa (L.) Rydberg
Psoralea glandulosa L. Sp. PI. ed. 2. 1075. 1763.
? Psoralea hitca Molina. Sagg. Chili 163. 1782. Not. P. lulea Cav. 1797.
? Psoralea Cullen Poir. in Lam. Encyc. 5: 685. 1804.
Lotodes glandulosum Kuntze, Rev. Gen. 194. 1891.
A low shrub, 1 m. high or more; branches ascending, glabrous or slightly puberulent, with elevated black glands; leaves 3-foliolate; stipules subulate, 3-4 mm. long; petioles 2-5 cm. long; leaflets lanceolate, 3-5 cm. long, 1-1.5 cm. wide; peduncles 3-5 cm. long; racemes lax, 5-10cm. long; bracts oval, cuspidate, 3 mm. long; pedicels very short; calyx strigose, conspicuously punctate, nearly equally cleft; tube 3 mm. long, slightly gibbous at the base above; lobes lanceolate, acute or acuminate, 3-ribbed, the lowest 4 mm. long, the rest 3 mm. long; corolla pale, with a purplish keel, 8 mm. long; banner broadly obovate, with a short claw; blades of the wings obliquely lunate, with an ovate acute basal lobe, 7 mm. long, those of the keel-petals broader, 5 mm. long, the claws of both 3 mm. long; tenth filament free or nearly so; pod ovoid, 6 mm. long, strigose.
Distribution: Escaped from cultivation near Berkeley. California; native of Chile to Peru.