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ovate, acute, | line in length : petals 2 lines long, with involute margins : 

 stamens 10 ; anthers linear-oblong, twice the length of the filaments : 

 disk deeply crenate. 



Nissolia confertiflora, Wats., var. laxior. Agreeing with the 

 type in foliage and technical characters, but having flowers nearly twice 

 as large (3|-4 lines in length) upon more elongated pedicels. — Col- 

 lected in the barranca of Beltran, 5 June, 1893 (no 4379). 



JEschynojiene amorphoides, Rose in litt. Brya (?) amor- 

 phoides, Wat*. (Proc. Am. Acad. xxii. 406). Excellent flowering 

 and fruiting specimens of this plant, collected by Mr. Pringle in the 

 barranca of Tequila, 1 October, 1893 (no. 4613), fully con firm the 

 view expressed in a letter from Dr. J. N. Rose, that it, should be 

 referred to the genus jEschynomene. The stamineal tube early splits 

 on the ventral or lower side, and the pods are in all respects those of 

 an JEschynomene. 



Clitoria (?) skricea, Wats. (Proc. Am. Acad. xxii. 407). Ad- 

 ditional specimens collected on rocky hills near Guadalajara, June 

 and July, 1893 (no. 4449), show the flowers of this species not hitherto 

 described. Calyx short, campanulate, silky-villous, with narrow acu- 

 minate spreading teeth equalling the tube: corolla light blue, villous 

 upon the outer surface, 6-7 lines long; petals suhequal in length; 

 the standard erect, open, orbicular, slightly thickened at the insertion 

 of the claw ; ahe oblong, abruptly contracted to a short claw : style 

 bearded upon the upper surface : stamens all united. — An anomalous 

 plant with the calyx rather of Centrosema but the bearded style and 

 other characters of Clitoria. 



Calogania pulchella, HBK., var. racemosa. Leaflets broadly 

 ovate, acutish : all or nearly all of the flowers borne in leafless axillary 

 racemes (4-6 inches in length). — Collected by Dr. Edward Palmer 

 at Tequila, Jalisco, August to September, 1886 (no. 379), and by 

 Mr. Pringle near Guadalajara, 15 September, 1893 (no. 5164). 



Galactia multiflora. Stems slender, woody, grayish brown, 

 much branched, ascending, not twining: twigs, petioles, and peduncles 

 cinereous-tomentose : leaves pinnately trifoliate ; leaflets oval or some- 

 what obovate, rounded or retuse at the apex, dull green and glabrate 

 above, ciuereous-tomentose beneath; veins slightly prominent beneath ; 

 the lateral veins 7 to 9 pairs, parallel ; margin slightly thickened and 

 revolute; terminal leaflet 15 lines in length, two thirds as broad; the 

 lateral slightly smaller: racemes axillary, 2-3 inches in length: buds 

 acutely lanceolate in outline: calyx purplish, silky-villous, deeply 4- 

 cleft, 4 lines in length ; the upper segment oblong, acuminate ; the 



