Otholobium fruticans (L.) C. H. Stirt.

Psoralea fruticans (L.) Rydberg
Tn 'folium fruticans L. Sp. PI. 770. 1753.
Psoralea bracteata L. Mant. 264. 1771.
Psoralea fruticosa Kellogg. Proc. Calif. Acad. 7: 91. 1877.
Lolodes fruticans Kuntze, Rev. Gen. 194. 1891.
A low shrub, erect or decumbent, densely leafy; twigs subcanescent ; leaves digitately 3-foliolate; stipules 1 cm. long, lanceolate, acuminate, striate; petioles very short; leaflets broadly obovate, retrorsely spinulose-mucronate, 1-2.5 cm. long, conspicuously punctate, pubescent or in age glabrate; spikes terminal, sessile, densely-flowered, subcapitate; bracts membranous, lanceolate or ovate, acuminate, nearly as long as the flowers; calyx densely pubescent and glandular; tube 3 mm. long; lobes lanceolate, acute, 4 mm. long, the lowest slightly longer than the rest; corolla purple-blue, or whitish, or the banner purple and wings
* Also spelled Psoralia. whitish; banner broadly obovate, retuse, with rounded basal lobes; blades of the wings oblong
tentVfiT t Si u u C ; ^° Se u thE keel " PetalS br ° adly 1Unate ' With a rounded basal lobe; tenth filament free half its length; pod glabrous, ovate-oblong, wrinkled.
Type locality: Cape of Good Hope
T? I I S ™ BU " ON: Adventive on Mt. Tamalpais. California; native of South Africa