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with rusty appressed pubescence; calyx lobes linear; pods straight, glabrous except 
a few hairs on the valves. 
Collected by C. G, Pringle on wooded slopes of the barranca above Cuernavaca 
in 1896 (no, 6327). 
Type U. 8. National Herbarium no. 461989. 
Nearest Cracca affinis, but with thinner leaflets, denser spikes, and broader bracts. 
Cracca diversifolia Rose, sp. nov. Figure 24. 
Plant suffrutescent, the cespitous stems less than a meter in height, herbaceous, 
densely pubescent; leaflets 1 to 5, oblong, 3 to 8 cm. long, obtuse, a little 
narrowed at base, thickish, glabrous 
above, with densely matted white 
pubescence beneath; inflorescence a 
short dense terminal raceme or some- 
times becoming paniculate; calyx very 
pubescent, either white or brownish; 
petals violet-colored; banner nearly 
orbicular, pubescent without. 
Collected by C. G. Pringle near 
‘Uruapan, November 14, 1905 (no. 
13697). 
Type U.S. National Herbarium no, 
462389, 
Fic. 24.—Calyx of Cracca diversifolia, Scale 2. Nearest Cracea sericea, but still very 
different. 
Cracca langlassei (Micheli) Rose. 
Tephrosia langlassei Micheli, Mem, Sov. Phys. Nat. Geneve 84: 250, pl. 3. 1908. 
Cracca major (Micheli) Rose. 
Tephrosia major Micheli, Mem. Soc. Phys. Nat. Geneve 34: 251. pl. 4. 1903. 
Cracca multifolia Rose. 
Tephrosia multifolia Rose, Contr. Nat. Herb. 1: 320. 1895. 
Cracca palmeri (S. Wats.) Rose. 
Tephrosia palmeri $8. Wats. Proc. Am. Acad. 24: 46. 1889. 
Cracca platyphylla Rose, sp. nov. Figure 25, 
Perhaps shrubby at base, low, about 30 cm. high, densely pubescent; leaves 
simple, shortly oblong, 4 to 6 cm. long, roundish at apex, subsessile, glabrate 
above, woolly-pubescent beneath; inflor- 
escence very compact; calyx lanate; banner 
lanate without; petals ‘‘rich rose red;”’ 
pods not seen. 
Collected by E. W. Nelson on a dry 
hillside in pine woods between Mascota 
and San Sebastidin, Jalisco, March 14, 1897 
(no. 4062). 
Type U. S. National Herbarium no. 
327035. 
Most nearly related to Cracca major, 
but the leaves always simple and covered 
beneath with a very different pubescence 
and the inflorescence much more compact. 
Fig, 25.—Calyx of Cracea platyphylla, Scale 2 
Cracca rhodantha (Brandeg.) Rose. 
Tephrosia rhodantha Brandeg. Zoe 5: 201. 1905. 
Perennial 60 to 90 em. high; branches weak and somewhat spreading, hirsute; 
leaves pinnate; common petiole very short; rachis 10 to 14 em. long; leaflets 9 to 17, 
opposite, oblong, 18 to 30 mm. long, obtuse or retuse, appendiculate, strigose- 
