Dec. i8g6. Flora of Yucatan — Millspaugh. 299 



Cassia sericea Sw. Xtulubayen. 



Herbaceous, 4 feet high. Abundant in waste places about 

 Izamal, Jan. to Dec. (600). {Miilspaugh, Armour Exped. 22j). 



Cracca Greenmanii sp. nov. (Plate XIII.) 



Sufirutescent, roots tuberous, sericeous-pubescent. Leaflets 

 5. ovate, acute, obtuse, emarginate or mucronate, tapering to the 

 short petiolule ; glabrous above sericeous beneath, common 

 petiole deeply channelled. Stipules subulate. Inflorescence on 

 elongated few-flowered glandular-pubescent racemes, bracts sub- 

 ulate about the length of the peduncle. Cal3'x 5 parted, the two 

 interior divisions somewhat connate, and one or more of the 

 others once or twice irregularly cleft-dentate. Stamens diadel- 

 phous, anthers reniform, fixed at the base. Style in-curved, 

 barbellate on the lower side; stigma terminal, slightly capitate; 

 ovary about 16 ovuled. Legume flatly compressed, bivalved. 



Plant I foot high; racemes 2.5 to 4 inches long; leaflets 5 to 10 

 lin. long, 3 to 7 lin. broad, petiolules i lin. long; corolla creamy 

 white. Allied to C. mollis Benth., from which it differs in leaf- 

 lets, pubescence and habit. Mr. J. M. Greenman of the Gray. 

 Herb. Harvard first suggested the apparent novelty of this 

 species. 



Infrequent along roadsides at Izamal, where it is known by 

 Dr. Gaumer, although it does not appear in his 1895 collection. 

 In opens at Chichen Itza, Jan. [AlillsJ^augh, Armour Exped. I2y). 



Cracca cinerea (L.) Kuntze. Sulche. 



Tephrosia cinerea Pers. Herbaceous, 6 feet high; common 

 along roadsides, Tecal road near Izamal, Sept. (86g). 



The narrow leaved form 16 inihes high; Silam, April (616); 

 and waste places Izamal (346 in part). 



Crotalaria incana Linn. Sacpet. 



Herb 3 feet high; common in shady woods about Izamal, June 

 to Oct. (775). 



Parosela Domingensis (DC ) 



Dalea Domingensis DC. Shrubby, 5 feet high. Common in 

 old fields at Izamal, Oct. to Feb. (389). 



Meibomia Scorpiurus (Sw. ) Kuntze. 



Desmodiiim Scorpiurus Desv. Waste places about Izamal (346 

 in part). 



Meibomia tortuosa (Sw.) Kuntze. 



Bcsmodium iortuosum DC. Herb, 3 feet high; common in 

 opens about Izamal, Sept. to Feb. (343)- 



The Yucatan specimens agree better in form and habit with 

 the Jamaican than with the North Mexican. 



Erythrina coralloides Mocq. & Sesse. Chacmol-che. 



Tree 30 feet high: common in brush and forest lands near Iza- 

 mal, Jan. to June (306). 



