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Indigofera cuernavacana Rose, sp.noy. 



Branches herbaceous, somewhat pubescent, perhaps becoming glabrate, younger 

 parts reddish-pubescent; leaves rather large, lOto 12.,") cm. long including the petiole 

 (less than 2.5 cm. long); stipules minute; leaflets oblong, 20 to 30 mm. long, obtuse 

 and apienhite, rounded or slightly narrowed at base, petiolulate, strigose-pubeseent 

 on both sides, reddish on the young leaves; stipels like butsmaller than the stipules; 

 racemes slender, many-dowered, shorter than the leaves, on very short peduncles; 

 calyx, corolla, and ovary reddish-pubescent; calyx spreading, cleft to the middle; 

 legumes numerous, reflexed, nearly straight, terete, 2.5 cm. long, acute, slightly 

 pubescent. 

 Collected by Mr. C. (J. 1'ringlein abarraneanearCuernavaca, Morelos,189fi(No. 6323). 

 Here perbaps belongs Bourgeau's No. 1192, from the same locality, reported in the 

 Biologia Centrali-Americana by Mr. Hemsley without specilic name. 

 Indigofera fruticosa Uose, sp. nov. 



A shrub !) to 15 dm. high ; young branches clothed with a rather rough pubescence, 

 either whitish or reddish, interspersed with brownish glands; leaves oddly pinnate- 

 leaflets 3 to 5 pairs, opposite, very variable, mostly oblong, obtuse, strongly apicu- 

 late, sliglitly narrowed at base, petiolulate, sometimes obovate and refuse, 8 to 14 

 mm. long, whitish with dense appressed pubescence on both sides; stipules linear, 

 somewhat pubescent; rachis with a ring of glands at the base of each pair of leaf- 

 lets; stipels conspicuous; racemes 10 to 12.5 cm. long, much longer than the leaves, 

 many-Howered; calyx reddish-pubescent, deeply cleft into linear sepals; outer 

 lobes of corolla pubescent; ovary densely pubescent, tipped with a thick glabrous 

 style; legumes at first reflexed but somewhat spreading when mature, 3.7 cm. long, 

 strongly flattened, 4 mm. wide, somewhat curved, the pubescence reddish and some- 

 what spreading. ' 



Collected by T. S. Brandegee in Lower California, at San Jose del Cabo, Septem- 

 ber 2, 1890 (No. 130); also at El Taste, September 12, 1893. 



This is recorded as Indigofera sp. by Brandegee. 1 It is nearest /. palmeri Wats., 

 being of similar habit and foliage hut with longer racemes, sepals longer than calyx 

 tubes, legumes longer, broader, and Matter, etc. 

 Indigofera salnioniflora Rose, sp. nov. 



About three feet high, appressed-pubescent; buds, young leaves, calyx, and petals 

 rusty-pubescent; leaves pinnate; leaflets 7 to 9, oblong, 20 to 30 mm. long, rounded 

 or broadly cuneate at base, obtuse, appendiculate, glabrous above, silvery and 

 appressed-pubescent beneath; racemes about the length of the leaves; flowers 

 salmon or pink ; banner orbicular, ohtwse, sessile, 4 mm. long; anthers with purple 

 connective, appendiculate; legume reflexed, about 2.5 cm. long. 



Collected by Dr. Edward Palmer at Ymala, September 25 to October 8, 1891 (No. 

 1695); also a specimen (letter I) without number and locality, but probably from 

 near the same station. 

 Lericaena glabrata Hose, sp. nov. 



A tree 9 meters high, with large top and a trunk 3 dm. in diameter, glabrous 

 throughout; leaves bipinnate (as in the genns), rather large; pinnae 4 to 7 pairs; 

 rachis hearing a large cup-shaped gland between the pinnae of the uppermost 

 (rarely the uppermost two) and of the lowermost pairs; leaflets 12 to 16 pairs, linear, 

 10 to 1G mm. long, oblique and broadly cuneate at base, acute, midrib eccentric, 

 placed above the middle; heads axillary; peduucles 12 to 36 mm. long; calyx 2 mm. 

 long, truncate or with small slightly ciliate teeth; petals 4 mm. long, linear; sta- 

 mens 10; ovary glabrous; legume 15 to 20 cm. long, 18 mm. broad, glabrous and 

 shining, tapering at base into the short stipe (12 mm. long), rounded and with a 

 short straight apiculation. 

 Collected by Dr. Edward Palmer near Acapulco, Mexico, February, 1895 (No. 368). 

 This species is nearest L. f/laucn, but diti'ers from it in having smaller pubescent 



1 Proc. Cal. Acad. ser. 2, 3: 120. 



