191 



ec. Calyx puberu lent ; sepals obtuse. 



Cedrela angustifolia DC. } doilbti - nl HpccieH . 

 Cedrela mexicana Koem. ) 



bb. Mature leaves pubescent beneath. 



e. Petals grayish pubescent, 



Cedrela Ascitis Veil. (Onatemalan.) 



ee. Petals reddish pubescent, 



Cedrela oaxacensis C. DC. &, Roho. (C. montana mexicana C. DC.) 



NOTES ON NEW OR RARE LEGUMINOSAE. 



AESCHYNOMENE. 



Specimens of several species of Aeschynomene have recently been 

 added to the National Herbarium. After a most careful study of the 

 genus I am convinced that ~> of the species are undescribed. The 

 added material is as follows: 



Aeschynomeiie acapulcensis sp. nov. 



Prostrate herbs with long slender wiry branches, slightly pubescent but never 

 glandular or viscid; stipules broadly ovate, acute, persistent even after the leaves 

 have fallen; leallets 5 to 7, glabrous, obovate to oblong, rounded at apex, 8 to 

 12 mm. long; calyx 2 mm. long, slightly longer than the subtending bracts; 

 corolla yellow, 6 mm. long; stipe long (4 to 5 mm.); ovary glabrous; legume 

 deeply notched on the back, 2-joiuted (in my specimen). Collected by Dr. E. Palmer 

 near Aeapulco, Mexico, in 1894-95 (No. 126). This species much resembles A. 

 viscidula, but is of very different habit and foliage. 



Hemsley in the Biologia gives a species from Acapuleo, but without si>ecilic name. 

 This may be the plant. 

 Aeschynomeiie amorphoides (Wats.) Rose. 



A shrub 12 dm. high. 



Very common about Bolauos, Jalisco, September 10 to 19, 1897 (No. 2859). 



Aeschynomeiie compacta Rose, sp. nov. 



Apparently a very compact shrub 9 to 30 dm. high; old branches smooth and gray; 

 young branches very silky; leaflets numerous (15 to 25 pairs), crowded, 3 to 4 mm. 

 long, somewhat 3-nerved, the main nerve subimirginal, acute, more or less appressed- 

 pubescent; petiole very short; stipules linear; inflorescence compact, shorter than 

 the leaves, few-flowered, pedicels short; bractlets 2, orbicular, obtuse, 3 to 4 mm. 

 long, about the length of the calyx tube, silky-pubescent; calyx slightly 2-lipped, 

 the 2 upper teeth slightly united, obtuse, the 3 lower teeth ovate, acute, the middle 

 one longer; corolla "maroon-red," banner orbicular with short broad claw; fruit 

 short-stipitato (3 to 4 mm. long), 2-jointed (in my specimens), deeply constricted be- 

 tween the joints, especially indented on the dorsal side, covered with short appressed 

 hairs. 



Collected by Mr. C. G. Pringle, in Tomellin Canyon, State of Oaxaca, October 1, 

 1894 (No. 5645); by E. W. Nelson between Juehitau and Chivela, Oaxaca, 1895 

 (No. 2630), and by Lucius C. Smith, June 1, 1895 (No. 452). 



This species resembles ./. fascicularis in foliage, but is of more compact habit, and 

 lias smaller leallets, a different ealyx and different bractlets. A. fascicularl* has 

 short, acute bractlets, the sepals are all acute, the corolla also larger, and its petals 

 longer-clawed. 



