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and deeply parted 4-jointed pods, the joints 4 lines long. — Hacienda 

 San Miguel (178). 



Desmodium (Chalarium) bioculatum. Herbaceous, erect, ca- 

 nescent with dense soft spreading pubescence: stipules lanceolate, 

 erect; leaves 3-foliolate, with filiform persistent stipels ; leaflets ellip- 

 tical, rounded or subacute at both ends, covered with very soft dense 

 appressed pubescence, greener above, the veins beneath whiter, 1 or 2 

 inches long by 7 to 14 lines wide, on stout petiolules : racemes axillary 

 and terminal, simple, elongated ; bracts very small ; pedicels fasci- 

 cled, slender, 3 lines long: calyx villous, 1^ lines long; petals purple, 

 the banner with two green spots at base, 4 lines long: pod densely 

 pubescent, nearly equally notched on both margins, the stipe twice 

 longer than the calyx; joints (1—4) elliptical, 3 lines long. — Same 

 locality (168). 



Vicia mediocincta. Low, branching from the base, sparsely 

 villous: stipules linear; leaflets 2 or 4, very narrowly linear, 4 to 10 

 lines long, acuminate : flowers solitary on pedicels 3 to 6 lines long : 

 calyx somewhat pubescent, 2 lines long, the slender teeth about equal- 

 ling the tube ; petals white or ochroleucous, 4 lines long : style densely 

 bearded in the middle ; pod aj^pressed-pubescent, linear, attenuate at 

 each end, about lO-seeded, an inch long. — Cumbre (341). 



Ertthrina coralloides, DC. A small tree, closely covered with 

 short stiff thorns : seeds large (8 lines long and 5 in diameter). — 

 Hacienda San Miguel (E). "Chilicote" or "Pionillo"; seeds used 

 as an emetic. 



Galactia tenuiflora, Wight & Arn. Apparently a soft-pu- 

 bescent form of this variable species. — Same locality (1G5). 



Galactia, sp. ? A small prostrate species, with nearly sessile 

 small round-obovate leaflets and oblong 3-nerved stipules ; flowers few, 

 axillary; calyx tubular, 4-toothed ; pod densely hairy, 8-10-seeded, 

 I inch long. — Norogachi (422). 



Phaseolus bilobatus, Engelm. — Hacienda San Jose (33). 

 C^salpinia pulcherrima, Swartz. — Along water-courses, same 

 locality (B). Green seeds eaten raw, having the taste of green peas. 



C^SALPiNiA (?) PLATYLOBA. A small tree, 12 feet high and 6 

 inches in diameter, very finely pubescent, the young shoots and leaves 

 densely rufous-tomentose : pinnai 3 pairs, upon a common petiole 4 to 6 

 inches long; leaflets 5 or G pairs (rhachis 4 to 6 inches), elliptical, 

 oblique at base, rounded at both ends, 1 or 2 inches long, sparsely 

 pubescent: raceme terminal upon a short branch, shorter than the 

 leaves ; fruiting pedicels 6 or 8 lines long, jointed toward the top : 



