CONTRIBUTIONS TO WESTERN BOTANY Ad 
eganum Texanum n. sp. Del Rio Tex. <A low and 
prostrate herb a few inches long, and much branched from’. a 
woody base and with short internodes. Leaves ovate. in»-outline 
and once to twice-pinnately divided intolinear, actite and revolute 
margined segments, puberulent. Pedicels slender: recurvéd, .5 
inch long. Flowers yellow. Sepals about 7,. linear-filiform ‘and 
about .5 inch long, entire. Pods didymous, about .5:inch‘wide 
membranous, filled with the few, large, and cellular shady the 2° 
divisions of the pod seldom equal,. This grows also at’ Eagle Pass 
and mien in loose soil. 
Helietta barranez n. sp. No. 27091, La Barranea). 
Guadalajara. Nov 19 1930. A slender shrub, 6-8 ft. hi igh, open-— 
ly and slenderly. and alternately branched, growing in rocky places © 
Loaves thin, 3-foliolate, low-crenulate- toothed, with terminal leaf-. 
let nearly twice as long as the reat, lanceolate ‘from a cuneate base 
and on a petiolule 6 mm. long, | he lateral leafilets oblique: and 
nearly sessile. Fiowers minute, in acompound raceme; purplish. 
Fruit normall y a single obliquely winged carpel, though. some- 
t-mes twin, 1 cm, long by 3-4 mm. wide, rounded and very flat, 
parallel-veine 
Pi hyllanthus peninsularie Br: bad ok No. Qt 542, Laguna sits 
Sept 22 1930. The seeds are sharply eta and with raised 
anc chocolate. pet and zigzagg cross-markin 
_, Phyllanthus Galeottianus Baill., 27404, baad: Oct 14. 1930 
This has nearly round and glossy- green leaves. Anthers dehis-. 
re ing parallel to midrib. Flowers yellowish- “green It is quite’ dis- 
et from peninsulari 
Phytlanthus viridis n. sp.No. 27503. Cacachilis mts. Oct! * 
2.1930. A rigidly branched sbrub 4-6 ft. high, with branches 
widely spreading, dark-gray, smooth, and the secondary ones al- 
most spinose,, with alternate, oval, entire, thin, green leaves, 
filiform petioles 4 the length of blade. Stipules triangular-subu- 
late and red. Most of the branchlets aborted into warts having 
fascicles of slightly larger leaves. Flowers moe mingle, on ra- 
ther stout and half-inch peduncles. Pods smooth, about 7 mm,,. 
wide. depressed-globoss. Seeds chocolate éblored, smooth .and. 
shining, lenticular, rounded onthe back and flattened .on. the 
other side, without markings, about 4mm. by 3 mm., rounded” 
at the ends and a little narrower below : 
Croton ee COT aM n.sp. No.2 27500, Cayuca ranch, Sierra * 
(iganta, Oct. 23 1930. A very slender and widely branched shrub: 
several feet high, with smooth and gray bark. Leaves scattered, 
1-2 inches Jong, mostly rhomboidal-ovate saa octet’ baa 
and at least the upper ones abruptly long- seated some of the 
lower ones triangular-acute at both ends,-‘on a whi ite-pubescent: 
petigle .5 inch long. without evident stipulegiand ceaeome surface ° 
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