46 CONTRIBUTIONS TO WESTERN BOTANY 
Allium hematochiton Watson was rightly named ‘bloody 
coat” from ‘aimatos’ bloody and ‘‘chiton” coat because of the 
lower scales being blood-red, The extra propagation is by the 
bulbs splitting vertically through the middle. 
Phaseolus. barrancz n. sp. No. 27177, La Barranca, 
Guadalajara, Nov. 211930, Climbing high over bushes and ro- 
bust, in rich soil, General appearance of Perytheuloma. Leaflets 
broadly elliptical to elliptical-ovate, 2-3 inches long by 1.5 wide, 
very venose below, velvety all over, entire, apiculately acuminate, 
half-cordate into a stout petiole 2-3 mm. long. Flowers an inci 
lung. deep-purple and striate-veined, 3-5, in a short and short- pe- 
duncled raceme.. Pods linear, much arcuate, immature, 2inches 
loug by 4 mm. wide, densely yellow-velvety, apiculate. 
Desmodium validity does not seem uch discussed 
g and flowers 6 mm. long and purple 
and with smooth banner. Pods on a filiform stipe twice as long 
as calyx, joints 1-2, almost distinct, obliquely oval, each about 4 
mm. long, smooth, venose, apiculate. Petals and floral rachis 
densely and minutely pubescent. : 
Erythrina flabelliformis Stdl. 
Standley does not describe the 
coral-colored seeds correctly. 
, deciduous, oval, 5 mm. 
long, purple. Petals longer, purple. Pods fleshy, constricted 
t 
strongly red-veined. 
