106 - J. N. Rose. 
XXXIIL J.N. Rose, l/iciaceae novae mexicanae atque centrali- 
americanae. 
(Ex: J. N. Rose, Contributions of Mexican and Central American plants, No. 5, 
in Contr. Unit. St. Nat. Herb., X, pt. 3 [1906], pp. 99—103, 107, 
pl. XXX—XXXIV.) 
1. Benthamantha edwardsii (A. Gray) Rose, |. c., p. 99. 
Syn.: Benthamantha grayi Alefeld, Bonplandia, X, 264, 1862. 
Cracca edwardsii A. Gray, Pl. Wright, II, 35, 1853. 
Gray's variety glabella is certainly not a form of B. edwardsii, 
but is much closer to B. sericea.’ 
2. Benthamantha greenmanii (Millspaugh) Rose, l. c., p. 99. 
Syn.: Cracca greenmanii Millsp. Field Columb. Mus. Bot., I, 299, pl. 13, 
1896. ` 
3. Benthamantha bicolor (Micheli) Rose, l. c., p. 99. 
Syn.: Cracca bicolor Micheli, Bull. Herb. Boiss., II, 444, pl. 11, 1894. 
Native of Guatemala. 
4. Benthamantha micrantha (Micheli) Rose, |. c., p. 99. 
Syn.: Cracca micrantha Micheli, Prim. Fi. Costaric., I, 189, 1891. 
Native of Guatemala. 
5. Benthamantha fruticosa Rose, |. c., p. 99. 
Stem perhaps nearly a meter high, shrubby, the bark of the branches 
silky-pubescent the first year, white the second year; leaves pinnate; 
leaflets 3 to 5 pairs, silky-pubescent, oblong, 8 to 12 mm long, rounded 
at apex, mucronate; racemes few-flowered, either shorter or longer than 
the leaves; bracts subtending the flowers filiform, longer ‘than the 
pedicels; calyx lobes linear, silky-pubescent; petals greenish yellow or 
the banner more or less purplish; pods linear, pubescent, 4 to 6 mm 
long, many-seeded. ; 
Mexico: Type U. S. National Herbarium no. 453587, collected by 
Rose and Painter in Tomellin Canon, Oaxaca, September, 1905 
(no. 10087); also at the same locality by Rose and Hough, June 23, 1899 
(no. 4665). 
6. Benthamantha glandulosa Rose, |. c., p. 99. 
Branches herbaceous, spreading, pubescent; leaflets 5 to 7, oblong 
to obovate, pubescent on both surfaces, paler beneath, rounded at apex, 
mucronate; stipules linear; racemes much longer than the leaves, the 
rachis as well as the calyx bearing silky and glandular hairs; ovary not 
at all pilose; style hairy. 
Collected by Heyde and Lux in Guatemala, Department of Santa 
Rosa, at Chiapas, September, 1892, and Casillas, May, 1892. Both 
specimens were named Cracca mollis by Micheli and distributed by Capt. 
John Donnell Smith under the numbers 3745 and 3301 respectively. 
The species is very different from the South American species, B. mollis. 
7. Benthamantha pumila Rose, l. c., p. 99, pl. XXX, 
