RUSE—MEXICAN AND CENTRAL AMERICAN PLANTS. 33 
green and glabrate above, pubescent and slightly paler beneath, ¢ mm. long, 3 mm. 
broad; flowers in globose heads; peduncles (in fruit) 1.2 em. long, tomentose; 
corolla glabrous, 4 or 5 toothed; the teeth ovate, acutish; stamens, twice as many; 
pods narrowly oblong, thin, flat, rafous-tomentulose, 4.5 em. long, 1.2 em. broad, 
slender-stiped, about 8-seeded, divided into as many nearly quadrate segments, and 
bordered by a thin, erose, purplish wing. 
Collected by KE. A. Goldman, at Apagote, near Yohaltun, State of Campeche, 
December 31, 1900 (no. 513). Type in U. 8. National Herbarium; fragment in 
herb. Gray. Related to MM. galeottii and M. mollis, but with the very peculiar pods 
of Mr. Rose’s recent species M. lacerata, 
Fic, 10,—Minosa hemiendyta Rose & Robinson. 
Pithecolobium compactum Rose, sp. nov. 
A low spreading compact bush, hardly rising above 3 to 5 dim. in height; branches 
usually stunted and short bearing short straight stipular spines, the old branches 
light gray, the young ones pubescent; leaves small and much reduced; pinnie one 
pair, 8 to 15am. long; petiole very short (1 to 4 mm. long), pubescent, bearing ¢ 
small gland at the top; leaflets 5 to 7 pairs; oblong to almost orbicular, rounded at 
apex, 2 to 4 mm. long, thickish, glabrous and shining above, dull and e¢labrous 
LS L04—03———33 
