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fore, leave my s])eciiiH'ii8 iiiKleteriiiiiied. My Hpeciincua have uo llnniis on tin- 

 ItraiK.'ht's, but thiy is likewise true of liiimboiat ami ]ioni)laiid'8 ligure. 



Casaia atomaria L. Mant. i. 68 (1767). A si. mil tree, 15 feet higli, 4 inches in 

 diameter: leutiets 3 to 6 pairs, often 5 inches long: ra( erne slender, hanging, 12 

 to 15 inches long: legumes often 16 inches long. On the monntains around 

 Manzanillo, December 1 to :^1, 1X90. No. OHIl 



This plant is referred as above, althitugli I havenototherwiso seen C. atomaria. 

 The leatlets arc somewhat larger than described, but 1 have little hesitation in 

 referring it here. 



Cassia biflora L. Sp. PI. i. :i78 (1758). Mauzauillo, March 2 to 18, 1891. No. 1850. 



Cassia manzaiiilloana Rose, sp. nov. A large ditfnse 8hrub,5 feet high, i)nbernleut : 

 leatlets4 pairs, 1 inch or less long, obovate, obtuse, paler lu'iieath, bearing a 

 gland between the lower pair: dowers in a.Killary racemes: sepals nne.|nal: 3 

 stamens long, curved, rostrate; 4 shorter, straight; 8 sterile, small, deltoid, 

 petaloid: legumes 8 to 6 ini'hes long, terete, 7 to 8 lines in diameter; eiidftcarp 

 becoming (leshy, separating from the exucarp: see.ls ai>]>eariug in 2 rows, hori- 

 zontal.— Low land along streams. Colima, January 9 to February G, 1891. No. 



11(11. 



A single shrub 4 feet high, in dower, was fcmnd at Manzanillo, on the banks 

 of the rivc'T. December 1 to 81, 1891. No. KMil. 



This species belongs in iientliam's section Chamd'jifttnla. It resembles consid- 

 erably C. hicapsidarix, but diders in being i>uberulent, the longer stamens ros- 



Cassia oxyphylla Kunth. Mimos. 129. t. 89 (1819). In a swamp. Manzanillo, 

 Decend>er 1 to ,S1, 1X91. No. 10.52. Armeria, February 15, 1891. Letter L. 



Cassia rotiiiidifolia Pers. Syn. i. 456 (1805). Grassy mesa near the .■•ty of Colima, 

 .January 9 to Febrnarv 6, 1891. No. 1107. 



Cassia sericea Swartz, Kl, hid. Occ. 724 (1800). sterns 2 to 4 feet high. Common 

 on the low land at base ()f nHumtains, and about the lagoon. Manzanillo, 

 Decenib<-r 1 to 81, 1890. No. 906. 

 This plant is called " Bicdio." 



Bauhinia porrecta Swartz, Prod. Veg. Ind. Occ. V,6 ( 1788). A diffuse shrub, 12 feet 

 hi"h, llowers white. Only two plants seen growing in shady woods, Armoria, 

 Fe'l)ruary 15, 1891. No. 128J . 



This species agrees with C. Wriglit's specimen collectcul in 18.58-.56 in Nic- 

 aragua. In l>oth of these s])ecimetis, however, tlu^ leaves are truncate or 

 rounded at base and more acute than in the ligure (No. 1708) of Curtis's botanical 

 Magazine, 



Bauhinia (Casparia) sp. Shrub, 15 feet high: Leaves glabrous above, pubescent 

 beneath, truncate or a little cordate at base, deeply emarginate, 7-nerved : pet- 

 als white, on long pubescent claws: stamens 10, 1 fertile, 9 ci.nnate and sterije: 

 ovary pubescent : legume puberulcnt. Colima, February 27 and 28, 1891. No. 



1822.' 



Entada polystachya DC^ Mem. Leg. 484, tt. 61. 62 (1825). A high climbing 

 shrub: leaves twice ].innate : leallets 6 pairs, oblong, rounded at ape>;, some- 

 what oblique at base, glabrous: po<l8 a foot long, 2,^ inches broad, glabrous. 

 Manzanillo, December 1 to 81, 1890, No. 988. 



If this reference, made without having seen the species, is correct, it extends 

 the range of this plant considerably n(»rthward, Mr. llemsley gives only three 

 stations for North America and all those in Central America. 



Piptadeiiia leptocarpa Kose, sp. nov. Large diffuse shrub, about 16 feet high, gla- 

 brous or nearly so, with numerous reticxcd prickles: leaves large; rachis some- 



* Through the kindness of Capt. .lohn Donnell Smith, I have been able to se(; and 

 study this'species as represented by P^ggers's West Indian plant. The two plants are 

 nndoubtedlv the same. 



