278 BOTANY OF THE VOTAGE OF H.M.S. HERALD. 
bus ; involucris turbinatis glabris uniappendiculatis, marginc inciso-laciniatis. In a baranca near the 
village of Santa Teresa^ on tlie road from Durango to Tepic. 
A shrub 2 to 3 feet high, forkedly branched. Leaves either pandur^eform, 2 inches long and 1 inch 
broad, or lancet, and 21 inches long and half an mch broad; bracts 8 Hnes long, and 3 to 3i lines broad. 
The involuera, their edge and form, as well as their male and female flowers, are like those of F.puJcherrima. 
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Tribus III. Acaltphe^, Bartling. 
107. AcALYPHA microphylla, Klotzsch (sp.nov.) ; snffruticosa, tennis^ erecta, ramosa, pubescens; 
caule ramisque gracilibus evanescente pubcscentibus ; foliis parvis ovato-subrliombcis obtusis, anticc 
serrate- dent at is longipetiolatis ; spicis pedunculatis interniptis solitariis, masculis axillaribus filifor- 
mibus, focmincis abbrcviatis terniinallbus. About ^lazatlan^ in waste places. 
A suffruticose plant, about a foot high. Blade of the leaves 4 to 6 inches long, and 3 to 4 lines broad, 
with transparent dots. 
Tribus IV. CEOXOiTE^, BJume. 
Lasiogyne, Klotzsch, Plant. Meyen. in Nov. Act. Acad. Cses. Leop.-Carol. Nat, Cur. vol. xvi. 
Siippl. ii. p. 418. 
108. Lasiogyne PoiisH, Klotzsch (sp. nov.) j fruticosa, humilis, erecta, gracilis, vix ramosa, ad- 
presse steUato-tomentosa ; caule ramisque tereti-subcompressiusculis, dcinde versus basim nudiusculis, 
petiolis erectis semipoUicaribus, foliis minoribus oblongis brevissime apiculatis, basi obtusis, supra 
pallida viridibus^ subtus incanis; floribus monoicis in apice ramorum brevi-racemosis, bracteis subu- 
latis deciduis, extus hirtis ; calycis laciniis ovatis brevi-acutis incano-tomentosis ; petalis florum mas- 
culorum anguste oblongis unguicuiatis margine villosis ; staminibus exsertis ; capsulis evanesccnti- 
hirsutis. Chihuahua (Potts!). 
Blade of the leaves 1 inch long, and generally 3 to 5, seldom 6, lines broad. The species was named 
in honour of its discoverer, J. Potts, Esq. 
LEGUMINOSiE. 
Subordo I. Papti-iokaceje. 
109. LupiNus (§ Sericei) Madrensis, Seem. (Tab. LIII.), sp. nov. ; pcrennis, sericeus; caule her- 
baceo; foliolis 7-10 lineari-oblongis vcl subobovato-oblongis, supra pubcscentibus viridibus, subtus 
sericeisj petiolo 3-4-plo bre\doribus, stipulis subulatis ; floribus in racemo conico irregulariter verti- 
cillatis ; bracteis ovatis longe acuminato-subulatis corolla duplo longioribus caducis, cum calyce brac- 
teolato argenteis, labio calycis siiperiori saccato ; corolla glabra (cserulea) ; ovario legumineque hirsutis. 
Sierra Madre (no. 2185), in woods. 
Stem from 1| to 2 feet high. Petioles often 6 inches long ; leaflets from I to li inch long. Legumeii 
about an inch long, 5-6-seeded. — This species is allied to L. argenteus, Agdh., and X. ornatus, from which 
it chiefly differs by its remarkably broad bracts and the saccate upper lip of the calyx, two characters not 
well represented iu our Plate. 
Plate LIII. Fig. 1, an entire leaf of a young plant ; 2, an entire flower ; 3, vexillum ; 4, carina ; 5, one 
of the alaj ; and G, ovary : — all, with the exception of Pig. 1, magnified. 
