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others linear or lance-linear, attenuate: corolla (in a dried state) deep 

 purple, striated with green, 5-6 lines in length ; standard obovate, 

 entire at the base ; alae oblong, strongly auncled upon the upper 

 edge ; keel but slightly curved : stamens alternately shorter, one 

 free. — Collected on rocky hills about Tequila, 1 July, 1893 (no. 

 4433). Fruiting specimens belonging to this species and collected 

 in the same locality, 24 September, 1S93, have leaflets 2-2^ inches in 

 length, and oblong acuminate pubescent legumes. 



Eriosema multielorum. A shrub, 3-4 feet high: stems brown- 

 ish, furrowed-angulate, branched ; branches covered with fine silky 

 reflexed appressed pubescence, stipules ovate, acuminate, 2|— 3 lines 

 long, silky pubescent, tardily deciduous: leaves ascending, 3-foliate ; 

 common petioles 1-2 lines long ; leaflets elliptic-oblong, obtuse, often 

 apiculate, pale green, firm in texture, 3-nerved, finely pubescent ahove, 

 appressed silky-villous beneath especially upon the prominent veins, 

 1^—2 inches long, a third as broad ; the edges revolute : racemes 

 crowded at the ends of the branches, subsessile, densely flowered, 

 1^—2^ inches long : bracts caducous ovate-rhombic, acuminate, silky, 

 2-3 lines long, somewhat exceeding the ascending pedicels : calyx 

 finely pubescent, campanulate, rounded at the base, gibbous upon the 

 upper side, parted to the middle ; the segments lanceolate, attenuate ; 

 corolla yellow, 6 lines in length ; standard with a slight bifornicate 

 thickening just below the middle upon the inner surface; vexillar 

 stamen free and with a bulbous thickening at the base : pods (scarcely 

 mature) broadly oblong, shortly and obliquely acuminate, 7-8 lines in 

 length, rufescent silky-villous, 2-seeded. — Collected on rocky hills 

 near Tequila, 7 October, 1893 (no. 4548). This species stands near 

 E. gra-ndiflorum, Seem., but differs in its smaller, more numerous, and 

 densely racemed flowers. 



Mimosa Tequilana, Wats. Excellent fruiting specimens found 

 by Mr. Pringle on hillsides near Tequila, 26 September, 1893 (no. 

 4596), furnish the following characters not shown in the type: pods 

 about 6 in a head, flat, thin, oblong, acute, about 3-seeded, f inch long, 

 2-| lines wide, covered with weak transversely spreading prickles. 



Begonia palmaris, A. DC. Mr. Pringle has been fortunate in 

 rediscovering this species and securing the hitherto unobserved fertile 

 plant. His excellent specimens, kindly identified by Monsieur Autran 

 with the type in Herb. Boissier, furnish the following supplementary 

 characters : plants apparently dioecious, 2-4 feet high : lower leaves 

 much larger than the upper (hitherto described), becoming 8 or 9 

 inches broad : petioles 2 inches in length .- lobes of the fertile flowers 



