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acute, or at least mucronate-acute, and the ovules and seeds are 
far more numerous than in the latter species. 
Dalea erythrorhiza. An herbaceous perennial: stems usually 
several from a suffruticose base, prostrate or ascending, 1 to 3. dm. 
in length, simple or subdichotomously branched, glabrous, tuber- 
culate-glandular, reddish: leaves including the petiole 1.5 to 6 
cm. long, 1 to 2 cm. broad, pinnately compound; petioles as well 
as the rhachises sparingly pubescent; leaflets petiolulate, 7 to 15, 
disposed in 3 to 7 pairs, oblong-obovate, 3 to 10 mm. long, 1.5 to 
6 mm. broad, retuse, entire, light green above, paler beneath, 
glabrous on both surfaces, glandular-punctate: infloresence spi- 
cate, 1 to 4. cm, in length; peduncles 1 cm. or less long: flowers 
bracteate; bracts ovate-acuminate, 7 to 8 mm. long, acute, glab- 
rous, glandular-punctate, often purplish, scarious-margined, at 
first completely surrounding the flower, early caducous: calyx 
deeply 5-toothed, long-sericeous-villous along the ten ribs and on 
the linear-attenuate calyx-teeth, corolla barely exceeding the 
calyx, dark blue; vexillum with a slender claw and an ovate- 
oblong 3-mm.-long lamina, bearing as well as the wings and parts 
of the keel 2 to 6 glands at the junction of lamina and claw: 
ovary 2-ovuled, and as well as the base of the style long-villous- 
pubescent.—MeExico. State of Durango: near the City of Du- 
rango, April to November, 1896, Dr. Edward Palmer, No. 487 
(hb. Gr.). State of Zacatecas: in gravelly soil, near the City of 
Zacatecas, altitude 2135 to 2440 m., August, 1903, C. A. Purpus, 
No. 452 (hb. Gr., hb., Brandg.). 
Nama torynophyllum. A low depressed much-branched an- 
nual, forming rather dense mats 1 to 1.5 dm. in diameter, cinere- 
ous-pubescent throughout: leaves alternate, spatulate, including 
the petiole o.5 to 1,5 cm. long, 2 to 5 mm. broad, rounded at the 
apex, entire, strongly recurved-margined, contracted below to a 
narrowly winged petiole, presenting an inverted spoon-like ap- 
pearance, cinereous-hirsute on both surfaces and on the under or 
concave surface bearing also stipitate-glandular hairs: flowers 
small, axillary, usually short-pedicellate; pedicels 3 mm. or less 
in length: calyx deeply 5-parted, persistent; divisions linear, ob- 
tuse, pubescent: corolla white, about 3 mm. long, slightly exceed- 
