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Dalea l^vigata, Gray ? Perhaps an annual form ; flowers 

 white. — Frayles (254). 



Dalea ? A low herbaceous somewhat villous perennial, with 



short leaves (leaflets small, 4 to 9 pairs), short dense spikes of white 

 flowers, small deciduous bracts, and attenuate calyx-teeth as long as 

 the tube. — Frayles (252). 



Dalea ? A glabrous annual; leaflets 6 to 10 pairs (3 lines 



long) : spikes dense, short, with narrow deciduous bracts : calyx-teeth 

 lax and slender, as long as the tube and equalling the small j^etals: 

 pod thin and scarious except along the upper margin. — On sandbars, 

 Norogachi (427). 



Indigofera Anil, Linn. — Hacienda San Miguel (80). "Aiiil"; 

 used as a dye. 



Tephrosia tenella, Gray. — Same locality (214). 



Tephrosia affinis. Near T. onobrychoides, woody at base, erect, 

 branching, very finely appressed-pubescent : leaflets 4 to 6 pairs, ob- 

 long, obtuse or usually emarginate at the summit, narrowed below to a 

 short petiolule, glabrous above, appressed-pubescent beneath, 1 to 1^ 

 inches long : racemes loose, axillary, exceeding the leaves, the terminal 

 branched; flowers rose-colored, 6 or 8 lines long, the short pedicels 

 and calyx with a fine appressed pubescence : young pod glabrous. — 

 Hacienda San Jose (55). 



CoDRSETiA (?) Mexicana. A Small tree, with unequally pinnate 

 leaves ; leaflets 5 pairs, oblong-elliptical, obtuse at each end or sub- 

 emarginate, somewhat inequilateral, an inch long or less by 6 lines 

 wide, finely and softly pubescent, especially beneath : racemes axillary, 

 loosely flowered, equalling or shorter than the leaves : calyx narrow, 

 persistent : pod thin, flat, narrowed at each end, puberulent, dehiscent, 

 2 to 4 inches long and 4 lines wide : seeds broad-reniform (5 lines 

 long), smooth and shining, pale salmon-color. — Hacienda San Mi- 

 guel (C). " Palo piojo " or " nesco." 



NissoLiA ScHOTTii, Gray. Haciendas San Jose (57) and San Mi- 

 guel (113). 



NissOLiA CONFERTIFLORA. Finely pubesccnt : leaflets 5, oblong- 

 ovate, acute, rounded at base, 8 to 20 lines long: flowers small (2 lines 

 long) in dense axillary fascicles, on pedicels 1 or 2 lines long ; calyx 

 campanulate, less than a line long : ovary densely pubescent, about 4- 

 ovuled. — Hacienda San Jose (42). 



-^SCHTNOMENE FASCicuLARis, Schlccht. & Cham. A well-marked 

 species of the section Ockopodium, with 10 to 20 pairs of oblong 

 leaflets (4 or 5 lines long) , sulphur-colored flowers in axillary fasicles, 



