VOL. 5] Plants from Stnaloa, Mexico. 201 
Parkinsonia aculeata 1, ‘This small tree grows abundantly 
about Culiacan in depressions that after heavy rains are filled 
with water. 5 
Hematoxylon boreale Watson. Very common about Culiacan. 
Crotalaria eriocarpa Benth. Abundant about Cofradia. 
Crotalaria Maypurensis HBK.2 A single specimen in fruit 
was collected at Cofradia. It is nearly the same as Pringle’s 
4818, but has even more foliaceous stipules. 
Dalea revoluta Watson. A perennial growing in dense clumps. 
The specimens are the same as those collected by the Lumholtz 
_ Expedition in Sonora. : 
Dalea diffusa Moric. Cofradia. 
Dalia minor (Rose). Prostrate, spreading. Cofradia. 
Tephrosia Toxicaria Pers. Cofradia and Cerro Colorado. 
Tephrosia multifolia Rose. Not typical. Leaves more acumi- 
nate and cuneate at base. Flowers white, tinged with purple, 
vexillary stamen free only at base. A bush six feet high. 
Cerro Colorado. ; 
Tephrosia rhodantha. Several stems 4-5 dm. high from a 
perennial root, hirsute with short spreading hairs and fewer 
much longer ones intermixed; leaves 10 cm. long and less witha 
short petiole 1 cm. long; leaflets 2.5 cm. long, 6 mm. wide, ob- 
long, rounded at each end, nerves prominent beneath, acuminate 
with the excurrent midnerve, appressed white-hirsute upon both 
sides, whiter beneath, nearly sessile, about 8 pairs and a terminal 
one; stipules linear-lanceolate, 7 mm. long; flowers in terminal 
and axillary spikes 2 dm. long or less; bracts linear-lanceolate, 5 
mm. long; calyx 2 mm. broad and long, the linear-lanceolate 
teeth longer than the purple-tinged tube, appressed white- hirsute; 
flowers brick-red: banner 1 cm. long, slightly exceeding the 
keel: vexillary stamen free; mature legume sessile in the calyx, 
6.5 cm. long, 4 mm. wide, slightly curved toward the tip, spar- 
ingly hirsute, acuminate. 
Collected at Cofradia. 
Aischynomene Acapulcensis Rose. The specimens are much 
younger than Dr. Palmer’s and consequently more viscid. The 
plants are villous-pubescent. Cerro Colorado. 
