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Cracca brandegei Standl., sp. nov, 
Plants slender, erect or ascending, herbaceous or suffrutescent, much 
branched from the base, the stems angulate, densely hirtellous with short 
spreading whitish hairs; stipules subulate, 8 mm. leng; petioles 1 to 2 cm. 
long, the rachis 2 to 5 cm. long, hirtellous; leaflets 9 to 19, distant, linear or 
oblong-linear, 0.6 to 4.5 em, long, 1.5 to G6 mm. wide, acute at the base, acute 
or obtuse at the apex, thin, copiously pilose on the upper surface with very 
short whitish subappressed hairs, thinly sericeous or short-pilose beneath, the 
lateral nerves numerous, parallel, ascending at a very acute angle; racemes 
leaf-opposed, 10 to 283 em. long (including the peduncle), slender, the flowers 
remote, the bracts short, subulate; pedicels slender, 2 to 4 mm. long, hirtellous: 
calyx 2.5 to 3.5 mm. long, hirtellous, the lobes triangular, attenuate, as long 
as the tube; corolla purple, the standard 7 to 8 mm, long, finely sericeous out- 
side; fruit 3 to 4 cm. long, 2.5 to 8 mm. wide, very flat, minutely pilose with 
spreading or subappressed hairs; seeds 2.5 to 38 mm, long, mottled with black 
and olivaceous brown, with a minute strophiole, 
Type in the U. 8. National Herbarium, no. 572116, collected at Altata, Sinaloa, 
Mexico, September 2, 1904, by T. S. Brandegee. Also collected in the vicinity 
of burango in 1896 by Edward Palmer (no, 375). 
Closely related to C. purpurea V.. (Tephrosia tenella A, Gray), but in that 
the pubescence is closely appressed. Cracca vicioides (Schlecht.). Kuntze also 
is a near relative, but that is a bright green, nearly glabrous plant, with 
brown pubeseence on the stems, and with leaflets glabrous on the upper 
surface. 
Cracca tepicana Ntandl., sp, noy, 
Plants apparently decumbent, herbaceous or suffrutescent, the stems slender, 
flexuous, hispidulous when young, glabrate in age; stipules small, subulate; 
leaves sessile or petiolate, the rachis 3.5 to 10 em. long; leaflets 5 to 11, oblong, 
elliptic-oblong. or oval-oblong, 2 to 4.8 em. long, 1 to 2 em. wide, short-petiolu- 
late, rounded at the base, rounded or very obtuse at the apex, chartaceus, green 
on the upper surface, strigillose or glabrate, the venation prominulous and 
reticulate, thinly strigose beneath, the venation prominent, the margin hispid- 
ciliate: racemes 10 to 22 em. Jong (including the long peduncle), the flowers 
in distant or approximate fascicles, the slender pedicels 4 to 8 mm. long, 
strigose, the bracts filiform-subulate, 8 mm. long or shorter; calyx 5 mm, 
long, strigillose, the lobes triangular-acuminate, about as long as the tube; 
standard petal 11 to 18 mm. long, and nearly as wide, brownish-sericeous out- 
side; ovary densely sericeous, 
Type in the U. S. National Herbarium, no, 505316, collected at Tepic, Mexico, 
in 1892, by Edward Palmer, 
A very distinct plant, related as closely to C. langlassei (Micheli) Rose, as 
to any of the Mexican species. The latter is distinguished by its long, copious 
pubescence and acute leaflets. 
Andira galeotttiana Standl., sp. nov. 
3ranches terete, reddish brown or grayish, rimose, the young branchlets 
stout. angulate, fulvous or ferruginous-tomentose; petioles stout, 4.5 to 6 cm, 
Tong, the rachis 5 to 14.5 em. long, brown-tomentose: leaflets 5 to 13, all oppo- 
site or the lower ones alternate, the petiolules very stout, about 6 mm. long, 
the blades oblong or oval-oblong, rarely obovate-oblong, 3 to 13 em. long, 2.8 
to 5.5 em. wide, rounded or subtrunecate at the base, rounded at the apex and 
apiculate, subcoriaceous, green on the upper surface. tomentnulose when young, 
becoming glabrate, the venation impressed, beneath densely tomentose or sub- 
