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4 mm. wide. Racemes terminal, short. Flowers rosy, 3 mm. long. 

 Sepals unequal, the upper elliptic, acute, the lower shorter, lanceo- 

 late, acute, green on back, membranaceous on margin, 1/3 as long 

 as wings. Wings elliptic, subobtuse, slightly inequilateral, very 

 shortly unguiculate. Upper petals rhomboidal, subemarginate, 

 strongly inequilateral, equalling or surpassing the keel. Crest 

 multifid, the segments linear, simple or bifid. Fruit unknown. 

 DC. Prod. i. 329 (1824), fide Chod. Monog. ii. 134. t. 20. f. 11-12 

 (1893). Not seen; description condensed from Chodat, 1. c. 

 Based by De Candolle on specimens collected in Santo Domingo by 

 Nectoux; redescribed by Chodat from specimens collected at the 

 same place by the same collector. 



100. P. conferta A. W. Bennett. Slender annual, the stems 

 solitary or rarely few, erect, glabrous, strongly angled, 7-14 cm. 

 high, bearing 2-6 capitate racemes. Lower leaves (1-2 whorls) 

 in 5's, spatulate-obovate, mucronate, 3.5-7.5 mm. long, 1.7-3.7 

 mm. wide; middle leaves (1-2 whorls) linear, acuminate, mucro- 

 nate, subsessile, 7-13 mm. long, 0.6-1.2 mm. wide; branch leaves 

 linear, scattered or sometimes whorled. Racemes capitate, densely 

 flowered, 4-9 mm. long, 5.5-6 mm. thick, on mostly naked pe- 

 duncles 2-4.5 cm. long; the bracts minute, quickly deciduous; 

 pedicels 1.2-1.5 mm. long. Flowers roseate or greenish- white, 1.8 

 mm. long. Upper sepal orbicular-ovate, blunt, slightly denticu- 

 late toward apex, 1 mm. long; lower ovate, subacute, 0.8 mm. long. 

 Wings oval, short-clawed, 1.8 mm. long, 1.1 mm. wide. Keel 1.5 

 mm. long; crest of about 2 pairs of papillate-margined lobes, the 

 anterior oblong, simple or bifid, the posterior cuneate, 3-fid at apex. 

 Capsule orbicular-oval, slightly oblique at each end, 1.3 mm. long, 

 1 mm. wide. Seed shortly pubescent, 1 mm. long. Aril 0.7 mm. 

 deep, its lobes oblong, appressed. A. W. Bennett in Hemsl. Diag. 

 PL Nov. i. 2 (1878) ; Journ. Bot. xvii. 172 (1879) ; Wats. Proc. Am. 

 Acad. xxii. 398 (1887); Chod. Monog. ii. 141. t. 20. f. 22 (1893). 

 Jalisco: plains near Guadalajara, 5 Oct. 1889, Pringle 2941 

 (G) ; Rio Blanco, Sept. 1886, Palmer 571 (BGK) ; gravelly plains 

 of Guadalajara, 1525 m., 8 Oct. 1903, Pringle 11377 (GK); hill- 

 sides near Guadalajara, 1525 m., 15 Oct. 1903, Pringle 8759 (G). 

 Vera Cruz: near Orizaba, Aug. 1866, Bourgeau 3249 (GK); Ori- 

 zaba, Botteri 822 (K); Schmitz (B). Michoacan: dry grassy 

 slopes, hills of Patzcuaro, 12 Oct. 1892, Pringle 4267 (BGK). 



