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more compact: leaflets 8 to 12 pairs, narrowly oblong-lanceolate, peti- 

 olulate, acute at both ends and apiculate, 6 to 15 lines long: racemes 

 10-20-flowered, the pedicels |- to 1 inch long; flowers bright yellow: 

 pods linear, strongly torulose, 4-8-seeded, 2 to 4 inches long not in- 

 cluding the elongated stipe (1 to l^ inches long), 3 lines broad. 

 Guadalajara; July. (237.) — Referred with doubt to Ortega'^ im- 

 perfectly described species. 



NissoLiA CONFERTIFLORA, Watson. Pod pubcscent, on a short 

 stipe about twice the length of the calyx, 1-3-jointed, the upper joint 

 dilated into a broad wing 4 to 6 lines long. Tequila. (388.) 



Brya (?) AMORPHOiDES. A Small Unarmed shrub, 3 feet high, 

 with numerous leafy branchlets, pubescent with short spreading hairs : 

 leaflets 20 to 35 pairs, crowded upon a rhachis 1|^ to 3 inches long, 

 sessile, oblong, obtuse at both ends with a long excurrent costa, 3 lines 

 long by 1 broad, subappressed-pubescent beneath, glabrate above : 

 flowers very shortly pedicellate and somewhat fascicled in narrow 

 axillary and terminal panicles shorter than the leaves : calyx glabrous, 

 6 lines long, subtended by a pair of small ovate bractlets, the teeth 

 nearly equal, obtuse, ciliate ; corolla brown, 2 lines long, the very 

 broad banner reflexed and glabrous, the claws of the spatulate wings 

 and strongly curved keel prominently auricled : stamineal tube cleft 

 above and readily separating into two equal phalanges ; filaments 

 equal : ovary pubescent, 2-ovuled, stipitate, with slight indication of 

 constriction in the middle. Tequila, in deep barranca. (414.) — The 

 absence of fruit renders the determination of this plant somewhat 

 doubtful. The habit is that of J^rya elenus (with a general resem- 

 blance to that of Amorpha microphylld) , and the characters of the 

 flowers are those of the genus. 



jEschtnomene Americana, Linn. Gaudalajara, in grassy bot- 

 toms; September. (491.) 



ZoRNiA DiPHYLLA, Pers. Same locality. (495.) 



Desmodiuji strobilaceum, Schlecht. A procumbent or pros- 

 trate form, with short ascending branches : pods 5-8-jointed, 8 to 10 

 lines long by 1^- broad, densely covered with short hooked hairs, as 

 also the pedicels and axis of the raceme. Rio Blanco ; August. (312.) 



Desmodium orbicdlare, Schlecht. A diff"use shrub, 4 or 5 feet 

 high. Tequila. (398.) 



Desjiodium (Chalarium) Jaliscanum. Suff'rutescent (?), 3 feet 

 high, slender, appressed-pubescent throughout, without hooked hairs: 

 leaflets lanceolate, acute, rounded at base, li to 2 inches long by 8 or 

 10 lines wide, the rhachis an inch long : racemes in axillary and ter- 



