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broadly ovate, striate, acute, 5 mm. long; pedicels about 5 mm. long: ‘alyx tube 
broad, 2 mm. high; dorsal lobe 2-parted nearly to the base, linear, 4 mm. long; 
the three ventral lobes narrow and longer than the dorsal ones; banner broad, 12 
mm. long, ‘dull lilac,” slightly pubescent without; pods linear, 5 to 6 em. long 
including the long apiculation (1 em. long), glabrous. 
Speciiens examined: 
Chiapas: Between San Richardo and Ocozucuantla, altitude 780 to 990 meters, 
KE, W. Nelson, August 18, 1895 (no, 2977), and table-land about Ocuslapa, 
_ altitude 1,020 to 1,140 meters, E. W. Nelson, August 21, 1895 (no, 2996), 
This species is very unlike any of the Mexican species heretofore described, 
Bradburya sagittata (Humb. & Bonpl.) Rose. 
Glycine sagittata Humb, & Bonpl. in Willd. Enum. Hort. Berol. 757. 1809, 
Rudolphia dubia H. Be IK. Nov, Gen. & Sp, 6: 432, pl. G91, 1823. 
Centrosena hastatun Benth. Ann. Wien. Mus. 2: 120, 1838. 
Centrosema dubium Hemsl. Biol. Centr. Am. 1: 294, 1880, 
Mexican specimens examined: 
Colima: Near Manzanillo, Dr. Edward Palmer, March, 1891 (no. 1365). 
Guerrero: Near Acapulco, Dr. Edward Palmer, 1894-95 (no. 620). 
Bradburya schiedeana (Schlecht. ) Rose, 
Clitoria schiedeant Schlecht. Linnea 12: 284. 1838, 
Type locality: ‘In dumetis pr. Jalapam’’ and ‘ Hacienda de Laguna.”’ 
This species has heretofore been known only from the material collected by Schiede 
more than seventy-five years ago. In 1830 it was referred to Clitoria without specific 
name, but in 1838 it was named and described as C. schiedeana, Up to this time, 
however, Centrosema (now Bradburya) had been passing as a section of Clitoria. In 
August, 1901, the writer visited Jalapa, Mexico, the type locality of this species, where 
he found it growing in great abundance in the thickets and hedges in all directions 
fromthe town, It is a vigorous-growing vine, suggestive in its habit, foliage, and large 
flowers of Canavalia, one species of which is often associated with it. 
Specimens examined: 
Vera Cruz: Near Jalapa, J. N. Rose, August 13, 1901 (no. 6118). 
NEW SPECIES OF SEVERAL GENERA. 
Cracca submoniéana Rose, sp. nov, 
Probably tall plant; branches densely reddish-pubescent; leaflets 6 to 8 pairs, 
oblong to lanceolate, 2 to 6 em. long, acute, glabrous and somewhat shining above, 
densely reddish or silvery pubescent beneath; racemes axillary or terminal, elon- 
gated, 2 to 3dm. long, many-flowered; calyx densely reddish-pubescent, the lower 
lobe linear, the lateral lobes shorter, ovate: banner very broad, 2.5 em. long; young 
pods pubescent. 
Collected by J. N. Rose between Pedro Paulo and San Blascito, Tepic, August 4, 
1897 (no. 3336). 
Crotalaria tenuissima Rose, sp. nov. 
Perennials, much branched, 3 to 4dm. high, somewhat pubescent; leaflets 3, very 
narrow, elongated, 3 to 10 em. long, 3 to 5 mm. broad, pubescent beneath; stipules 
minute; racemes elongated, 2 em. long, naked below; pedicels 6 mm. long; bractlets 
small, short; bractlets minute; calyx 8 mm. long, the lobes narrow and acute: ban- 
ner 10 mm, long, broad; wings 5 mm. long, narrow; keel considerably exceeding the 
wings, strongly beaked; pods (immature) pubescent. 
Collected by J. N. Rose between Pedro Paulo and San Blascito, Tepic, August 4, 
1897 (no, 1981). 
Very similar to C jilifolia in form of leaflets, but certainly a perennial, with larger 
and more numerous flowers, ete. 
