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^EsCHYNOMENE NiVEA. Shrubby, branches short and few, 

 erect, 2-3 feet high, hoary somewhat strigose-pubescent: 

 leaves 1-1| inches long, lighter green above: leaflets 10-18 

 pairs, broadly linear acuminate, 4-6 mm. long: flowers ax- 

 illary, solitary or rarely two or three in a very short raceme: 

 peduncles bristly hairy, longer than the flowers: calyx 2 

 mm. long, teeth broad, triangular, ciliate on the margins, 

 all but the lowest shorter than the tube, the two upper 

 united nearly to the tip: corolla ochroleucous, more than 

 twice as long as the calyx: ovary stipitate, pubescent; 

 legume somewhat pubescent, reticulate-veiny, segments 1 

 or 2, rounded. — Purisima. 



ViciA EXIGUA Nutt. — San Esteban, San Julio. 



Lathyrus vestitus Nutt. — El Kancho Viejo. 



Phaseolus filiformis Benth. Leaves very variable.— 

 Magdalena and Santa Margarita Islands and Comondu. 



Phaseolus atropurpureus DC. var. sericeus Gray. — Co- 

 mondu, San Ignacio. 



Galactia, sp. — Comondu. 



PiHYNCHOSiA PHASEOLOIDES DC — Comondu. 



E/HYNCHOSIA, sp. Near R. minima. — Comondu. 



Ehynchosia, sp. "Frijolita." Near the precedJDg, but 

 more pubescent, and not twining. — Comondu. 



C.ESALPINIA PANNOSA. Shrubby, 2-4 feet high, branches 

 slender, clothed with white deciduous bark, at first pubes- 

 cent with Avhite spreading hairs intermixed with spaise 

 stipitate glands: pinna? 1-2 pairs and an odd one: rachis 

 slender, 1-3 inches long: leaflets 2-3 pairs, oblong or obo- 

 vate, refuse, 3-12 mm. long: peduncles pubescent, 2-4 

 inches long; pedicels slender, jointed below the middle: 

 bracts ovate-acuminate: calyx tube hardly oblique, lobes 

 oblong, obtuse, pubescent but not glandular: petals slightly 

 exceeding the 6 mm. hmg calyx, pale yellow, claw very 



