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branaceis distantibus oblongis apice longiuscule cristatis, rhachi gracili, pedunculis gracilibus, 
bracteis ovato-oblongis alabastra involventibus subpersistentibus, floribus mediocribus, calyce 
hirsuto, ovario glabro breviter stipitato circiter 6-ovulato. 
Frutex ramosus, novellis densiuscule fulvo-sericeo-villosis, ramis graciliusculis glabrescentibus 
tenuiter striatis. Folia breviter petiolata, 6-9-pollicaria, imparipinnata ; foliola 17-25, breviter 
petiolulata, membranacea, distantia, oblonga, 9-12 lin. longa, longiuscule aristata, rhachi 
gracili; stipula decidue non vise. Flores mediocres (circiter 9 lin. longi), axillares, solitarii 
vel gemini, pedunculis gracilibus sesquipollicaribus ; bractew ovato-oblongz, acute, 4-5 lin. 
longe, 4-5 lin. late, alabastra involventes subpersistentes ; calycis hirsuti lobi acuti; ova- 
rium glabrum, breviter stipitatum, circiter 6-ovulatum, stylo elongato arcuato. Legumen 
ignotum. 
Sovura Mexico, without locality (Sallé). Hb. Kew. 
B. oxyphylla is the nearest ally of B. gracilis ; but that isa much stouter plant, larger 
in all its parts, and clothed with an exceedingly dense rusty tomentum. The bracts, 
too, of our plant are much narrower, the calyx-lobes relatively shorter, &c. 
6. Brongniartia intermedia, Moric. Pl. Nouv. d’Am. p. 14, t. 10. 
Souta Mexico, Santa Fé, valley of Mexico (Bourgeau, 84). Hb. Kew. | 
This should perhaps include our B. stipitata. | 
7. Brongniartia magnibracteata, Schl. in Linnea, xii. p. 338. 
Sourn Muzxico, barranca near San Bartolo (Ehrenberg), tSierra de San Pedro Nolasco 
&c. (Jurgensen, 829). -Hb. Kew. | 
-8, Brongniartia mollis, H. B. K. Nov. Gen. et Sp. vi. p. 467, t. 587. 
Soura Mexico, hilly places, Quebrada de Sopilote, between Zumpango and Tasco, at 
8108 feet (Humboldt & Bonpland), Cerro de Guadalupe (Bourgeau, 83, in part). 
Hb. Kew. 
9. Brongniartia oxyphylla, Hemsley. 
Peraltea oxyphylla, DC. Mém. Leg. xiii. p. 463; Prodr. i. p. 475. 
Sourn Muxico, plain of Oaxaca, at 5000 feet (Galeotti, 3233), without locality (Jur- 
gensen, 6), between Acatlan and Chila (Andrieuxr, 445). Hb. Kew. | 
10. Brongniartia oligospermoides, Baill. Adans. ix. p. 240. 
Mexico, Xochialco (Hahn). Hb. Paris. : 
11. Brongniartia parryi, n. sp. 
Arborea vel fruticosa, novellis dense argenteo-velutinis, foliis amplis imparipinnatis, foliolis seepis- 
sime 7 subsessilibus crassis ovato-oblongis obtusis apiculatis venis subtus prominenter elevato- 
reticulatis, pedunculis axillaribus solitariis geminis vel ternis, floribus . . . legumine lon- 
giuscule stipitato coriaceo sepe 6-spermo. 
Arbor vel frutex, novellis dense argenteo-velutinis ; ramis crassiusculis, flexuosis, internodiis brevi- 
bus. Folia breviter petiolata, imparipinnata, 2~6-pollicaria; foliola sepissime 7, subsessilia, 
crassa, mollia, ovato-oblonga, in specimine uno 9-12 lin. longa, in specimine altero 2-3 poll. 
longa, maxima usque sesquipoll. lata, basi rotundata vel subcordata, apice rotundata et mucro- 
