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shortly ciliate, concolorous and strongly veined on both sides, 2 to 2J 

 lines long ; petiole and rhachis hirsute ; stipules narrowly lanceolate, 

 ciliate ; gland stipitate : pedicels exceeding the leaves (an inch long, 

 or more) ; flowers large (6 to 8 lines) : pods pubescent, an inch long 

 by 2 lines broad. Rio Blanco ; June. (29.) — Near G. Wrightii. 



Mimosa fasciculata, Benth. Compact shrub, very thorny, 4 

 feet high ; pods 1 1 inches long by 2 lines wide, long-acuminate, pu- 

 bescent and densely covered with rigid setaj and occasional curved 

 spines. Guadalajara; September. (449.) 



Mimosa albida, Humb. &. Bonpl. Very bushy, 5 feet high, with 

 numerous heads of pink flowers. Guat^alajara, in fences and on em- 

 bankments ; October. (693.) 



Mimosa floribunda, Willd. Bushy, 2 feet high. Chapala, in 

 ravines. (705.) 



Mimosa (Modesto) Tequilana. Annual, erect and branching, 

 a foot high, hirsute throughout with spreading hairs, and armed with 

 infrastipular and scattered recurved prickles: petioles slender, 1 to 1|^ 

 inches long ; pinnae a single pair ; leaflets 1 or 2 pairs, oblong-obovate, 

 about an inch long, glabrous above, strigose beneath and long-ciliate : 

 peduncles axillary, 3 or 4 lines long ; bracts linear, striate, hirsute 

 and ciliate, equalling the flowers : calyx wanting ; corolla scarious, 4- 

 toothed. Tequila, in ravines among grass and weeds. (378.) 



Schrankia aculeata, Willd. Rio Blanco, on gravelly hills 

 among bushes ; July. (164.) 



Schrankia distachya, DC. A large shrubby plant with long 

 pendent branches ; agreeing well with Moq. & Sesse's figure. Guada- 

 lajara ; July. (267.) 



Leuc^na esculenta, Benth. A tree, 20 feet high and a foot in 

 diameter, with white flowers; cultivated under the name of "guage." 

 Guadalajara ; October. (634.) 



Leuc^na macrophylla, Benth.? A shrub, in flower only; 

 pinn88 and acute leaflets two pairs each ; flowers white. Rio Blanco, 

 on grassy hillsides among underbrush ; August. (320.) — Also, prob- 

 ably, as a small tree, 10 feet high, the narrower acuminate leaflets in 

 3 pairs in the upper pinnse. Tequila. (354.) 



Acacia filicina, Willd. Rio Blanco ; October. (003, 647.) 



Acacia Tequilana. Glabrous throughout, unarmed, the stem 

 6 feet high, with few lateral branches : leaves large (rhachis 6 to 8 

 inches long), without glands ; pinnae 5 pairs ; leaflets 5 to 10 pairs, 

 thick, orbicular to very broadly elliptical (5 to 7 lines long), obtuse or 

 retuse, subcordate and but slightly oblique at base, reliculately veined: 



