CONTRIBUTIONS TO WESTERN BOTANY 43 
alea barrance n. sp. _ No. 27230, La Barranca, Nov. 
ye, 
apprewed-trgoe not over an inch long, mostly half an inch long 
and the petiole not ‘Teigee that the lowest leaflet. Spikes termi- 
.5-1 ine fonty: ense, on a filiform peduncle 2- 3 times as long. 
Flowers and bracts long-silky with hairs a little twisted and seem- 
ingly beaded and white. Calyx 5 mm. long and equaled by the 
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conspicuously 10-black-nerved, with the lobes a little longer than 
the tube and subulate. Petals purple, barely longer than the ca- 
cifera but with absence of visible bracts and blunt le aR and 
flowers apparently small. Stems much-and alternately-branched 
above by slender and flexuous branches ending in slender-pedun- 
cled spikes, leafy below. Leaves 2-4 inches long, wide, with 4 
pairs of leaflets which are white-hairy when young, and green a- 
bove and smooth in age. Leaflets about 1 cm. long, elliptical, 
barely apiculate, acutish below, -Petioles about as long as the 
leaflets. Leaflets separated about 2-3 cm. Upper stems hoary. 
Spikes 1-3 inches long, the terminal one 2-3-times as long as tlie 
jJateral ones, on peduncles an inch long, 4mm. wide. Bracts ru- 
dimeutary and deciduous. Flowers closely sessile in dense spikes 
Calyx chestnut-colored above, green and very pale, a little infla- 
ted, straight, with rudimentary teeth, hairy or nearly smocth. 
Pads about 3 cm. long, a little surpassing the calyx, about round 
but slightly flattened. Flowers absent but probably purple and 
small. 
Tephrosia fruticosa n. sp. No. 27207, La Barranca, 
Noy. 17 1430. Strictly erect, 2-4 ft. high, rigid. Leaflets 3 in- 
ches long by an inch wide, acute and apiculate, very venose and 
with veins yellow-hairy, one pair with almost no_ rachis, finely 
pubescent all over. Flowers yellow and purple-veined, 1 cm. long, 
ascending in a dense spike 4 inches long. Calyx lobes long-acn- 
minate and pilose. Bracts elliptical, nearly 1 cm. long, acute at 
both ends and narrowed below, very pilose and appressed and with 
many parallel nerves, pein diets of leaves velvety. stems branch- 
ing a above. his may be an Eriosema, 
Tephrosia Lindheimeri Cae No. 28552. Eastof Carriso 
Spring Tex. Apr. 271931. Plants growing flat on the ground in 
mats 4 ft. wide. Stems, petioles, rachis and petiolules densely 
yellow-hairy. Leaflets about 6 pairs, rather oval-obovate, 15 ecm. 
long by 4.em, wide, leathery, smooth above and venaose, pilose on 
