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Aeschynomene fascicularis Schlecht. A- Cham. Linnrea, 5 : 584. 1830. 



Flowers yellow. 



Collected by J. N. Rose near San Juan Capistrano, August 22, 189*7 (No. 2182), and 

 west of Bolanos, September 10 to 19 (No. 2937). 

 Aeschyiiomene fruticosa Rose, sp. no v. 



A shrub 12 to 15 dm. high, with stiff grayish branches; young parts strigose- 

 pubeseent, becoming glabrous; leaves small; lcallets 3 or 4 pairs, oblong, 8 to 14 

 mm. long, rounded at base, also at apex, long-apiculate, nearly glabrous; flowers 

 fascicled in the axils or in a short few-flowered raceme shorter than the leaves; 

 pedicels slender, 10 to 12 mm. long; buds long-acuminate; the 2 bracts subtending 

 the flowers small, much shorter than the calyx, 2 mm. long, ovate, acute, striate; 

 calyx tube 2 mm. long, slightly hairy; sepals 5, the 2 upper ones 3 mm. long, acute, 

 united to the middle; the 3 lower lobes unequal, the central one long-acuminate, 4 

 mm. long, the other two 2 mm. long, acute; corolla yellow, G mm. long, somewhat 

 pubescent without; stamens of the genus; ovary pubescent; stipe not longer than 

 the longest sepal, sometimes not longer than the calyx tube; legume with face 

 nearly straight, deeply indented on the dorsal side, 1 to 3 jointed, becoming 

 glabrate in age. 



Collected by Dr. E. Palmer on stony hills near Topolobampo, State of Sinaloa, 

 September 15 to 25, 181)7 (No. 201). Near A. palmeri, but with smaller leaflets, very 

 different calyx, etc. 

 Aeschyiiomene palmeri Rose, sp. nov, 



A shrub with grayish bark thickly set with small lenticels; young branches 

 slightly pubescent, soon glabrate; leaflets 4 to 7 pairs, orbicular to ohlong, gla- 

 brous or nearly so, 10 to 25 mm. long, rounded at base, but usually somowhatoblique, 

 obtuse, rounded or refuse, and apicularo at apex, dark green and shining above, 

 paler beneath; inflorescence paniculate or simply racemose; pedicels slender; 

 bracts 2, ovate, acute, striate; calyx small, the 4 upper lobes about equal, nearly 

 orbicular, rounded at apex; the lower lobe longer, narrower, and acuminate, all a 

 little hairy on the margin ; corolla rose-colored ( "?) ; banner large, orbicular, strongly 

 bent backward; wings and keel deeply auricled (on one side) and slender-clawed: 

 keel strongly indexed; stamenB (as of the genus) in 2 clusters of 5 each; ovary 

 glabrous, stipitate; style very long and filiform; mature joints obliquely obovate, 

 glabrous and shining; immature pod 3-lobed. 



Collected by Dr. E, Palmer near Acapulco in 1894-95 (No. 106a). 



A very distinct species. 

 Aeschyiiomene paniculata Willd. ; Vog. Linnsea, 12 : 95. 1838. 



Collected by Dr. E. Palmer near Acapulco in 1894-95 (No. 283). 



This species has once before been reported from Mexico, but without definite 

 locality. 

 Aeschyiiomene petraea Robinson, Proc. Am. Acad. 27 : 166. 1892. 



Collected by E. W. Nelson on mountains near Talpa, altitude 4,400 to 5,000 feet, 

 March 7, 1897 (No. 4033) ; on roadside between Mascota and San Sebastian, Tepic, 

 March 14, 1897 (No. 4058) ; and by Mr. E. A. Goldman near Chacala, Durango, February 

 23, 1899 (No. 329). 



Aeschyiiomene simulans Rose, sp. nov. 



Perennial; stems herbaceous, about 3 dm. high, branching at the base, nearly 

 glabrous throughout; loallets 8 to 12 pairs, oblong to oval, rounded or cordate at 

 base, more or less oblique, rounded or refuse and shortly rnueronate at apex, 8 to 18 

 mm. long, thickish, strongly nerved, nearly glabrous; stipules ovate, acute; flower- 

 ing stems often leafless, forming a branching panicle, or the flowers borne in axil- 

 lary racemes shorter than the leaves; inllorescence but slightly pubescent, never 

 glandular; pedicels very short, of fruit sometimes 6 mm. long; bracts ovate, obtuse, 

 1 mm. long; calyx glabrous; I upper sepals obtuse; lowersepal acute; corolla yellow, 



