178 Plantce. Lindheimeriana. 



Gregg has gathered fruiting specimens of the same plant in 

 the high lands near Saltillo, Mexico, in 1848.) — Dr. Engel- 

 mann states that it is peculiar to the limestone districts of 

 Middle Texas. 



378. Sophora (Styphnolobium) affinis, Torr. fy Gray, 

 Fl. 1. p. 390. Margin of Cotton-wood groves along the Rio 

 Colorado, above Bastrop : August (in fruit) ; also near New 

 Braunfels and San Antonio, common; April, in flower. — 

 " A small tree, 10 to 12 feet high, the trunk 4 to 8 inches in 

 diameter, rarely a small shrub ; the annual shoots with green 

 bark, fragile ; the wood very heavy." Leaflets less than an 

 inch long, nearly of the same hue both sides, retuse or very 

 obtuse. No. 601 is the same plant, from New Braunfels. 



379. Sophora (Dermatophyllum) speciosa, Benth. Mss. 

 Dermatophyllum speciosum, Scheele in Linnaa, 21. p. 459. 

 Sophora sempervirens, Engelm. Mss. " On the western part 

 of Matagorda Bay, where it forms groves. Also sparsely on 

 rocky hills, margins of Cedar woods along the Guadaloupe, 

 near New Braunfels, &c. Flowers in February. A small 

 tree, about 30 feet high ; the wood yellow, hard, and heavy, 

 called lignum-vitce. Flowers, showy, blue, sweet-scented, ex- 

 haling nearly the fragrance of violets. The tree forms small 

 groves on the shores of Matagorda Bay, where it is the only 

 fire-wood. The wood dyes yellow." Also gathered by Ber- 

 landier, and by Mr. Wright. The large, woody pods, two 

 to four inches long, are sometimes constricted between the 

 seeds, sometimes barely torose. Mr. Bentham remarks, in 

 Herb. Torr., that, " at present Dermatophyllum can only be 

 admitted as a section to include *S*. speciosa, S. secundiflora, 

 and an intermediate species collected by Dr. Gregg in North- 

 ern Mexico, until the pods of all the genus are better known." 

 — No. (602) is the same species from New Braunfels, flow- 

 ering in March, either a shrub or a small tree. 



(603.) Hoffmanseggia Jamesii, Torr. &/• Gray, FL 1. p. 

 393 ; Gray, PI. Fendl. p. 38. Stony soil on the Liano. 

 October ; the second flowering, after the burning of the 



