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wide-spreading hairs. Lower leaves elliptic to orbicular, mucron- 

 ate at the obtuse to rounded apex, rounded to cuneate at base, 

 strongly reticulate, thinnish, spreading-pilosulous above and 

 (chiefly along veins) beneath, 5-13 mm. long, 3-12 mm. wide, on 

 petioles 1 mm. long; middle and upper similar but gradually pass- 

 ing to oblong or lance-oblong, acute at each end, the uppermost 

 bractlike, much reduced. Racemes contra-axial, strongly geniculate, 

 2-8-flowered, pubescent like the stem, 1-3.5 cm. long. Flowers 5 

 mm. long, their pedicels spreading-pilo^^L-2 mm. long. Upper 

 sepal persistent, ovate, acute, spreading-pilosulous and -ciliate, 

 narrow-margined, 3-3.2 mm. long; lower similar, 2 mm. long. 

 Wings oblong-obovate, barely retuse at the rounded apex, cuneate 

 at the oblique base, spreading-pilosulous, 4.8-5 mm. long, 2.3 mm. 

 wide. Keel 4.8 mm. long, its porrect beak 0.6 mm. long. Upper 

 petals oblong, entire, slightly oblique at apex, 4.4 mm. long. Cap- 

 sule oblong, emarginulate, scarcely stipitate, spreading-pilosulous, 

 striate, 4.8 mm. long, 2.4 mm. wide. Seed silky-pilose, 3.2-3.5 mm. 

 long. Aril 1.8 mm. deep, entirely corneous; umbo 0.4 mm. deep, 

 with indistinct appressed dorsal and oblong entire appressed (1.4 

 mm. long) lateral lobes. Gray! PL Linclh. ii. (Bost. Journ. Nat. 

 Hist, vii.) 150 (1850); PI. Wright, i. 39 (1852); Chod. Monog. ii. 

 107. t. 18. f. 10-12 (1893); Rob. in Gray, Syn. Fl. i. pt. 1. 451 

 (1897). Nuevo Leon: Monterey, Eaton & Edwards 53 (K). 

 Also Texas: Lindheimer III. 333 p. p. (type coll.: BG); Lind- 

 heimer IV. 333 p. p. (K) ; Wright 73 (K), 102 (BGK), 1349 (BGK); 

 Reverchon 63 (G) ; Groth 153 (G); Havard 100 (G);'~E. Hall 96 

 (K); Mexican Boundary Survey under Emory 190 p.p. (K). T. 2. 

 Fig. 50. 



93. P. blepharotropis, sp. nov. Basis. . . . Caules fruticulosi 

 ramosi verosim. procumbentes virides vix glaucescentes incurvo- 

 puberuli 1.7-2.8 dm. longi. Folia ima lanceolata vel obovata 4-7 

 mm. longa 1-1.3 mm. lata; media et superiora linearia utroque 

 acuminata mucronulata paullum reticulata incurvo-puberula 9-16 

 mm. longa 1-2 mm. lata, in petiolis 0.6 mm. longis. Racemi (cum 

 bene evoluti) valde geniculati 8-15-nodati 1.5-3 cm. longi, inter- 

 dum solummodo (ut videtur) 4-8-nodati. Flores pallidi 5.5 mm. 

 longi. Sepalum superius ovatum acuminatum incurvo-puberulum 

 et ciliolatum 2.8 mm. longum, inferiora similia angustiora obtusius- 

 cula 2.4 mm. longa. Alae oblique obovatae basi cuneatae apice 



