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zloug with Phaseolus atropurpurcus, over biislies. No. 24278, Todos, 

 Santos, on mesas at (he north, Tebruary 17, 192S. 



Cracca lupinoldes N. Sp. Erect shrubs 4-6 Feet high, growing in 

 dumps. Stems densely woolly-hairy with very short and ascending hairs; 

 which are yellow. On the inflorescence even to the banner densely felted. 

 Stems racemosely branched above. Leaves a foot or less long, with nor* 

 mally 4 pairs of leathery leaflets 10-15 cm. long by 3 cm. wide, Mted 

 short -hairy below and shining above, conspicuously about 18-nerved belo;v 

 and reticulated below, acute to very ohtuse and roimdtd at tip. mostly 

 truncate below, with edges wavy as if subserrate, the lowest pair mud. 



smaller and 



as if stlpular but above the joint on petiole. 



Inflorescence an eloniTakc 



appearing 

 Petiolules very stout, and about 5 mm. long, 

 compound raceme with the laterals very short and few flowered, the flov.f r 

 on pedicels about 1 cm. long. Bracta very small. Flowers purplish or, 

 banner and keel tip, and whitish in the margins, about 1.5 cm. lonsj. 

 Calyx and banner very ycIIow-woolly, teeth triangular and about as 1 

 as tube. Fruit spreading, very yellow-woolly, about 5 cm. long by S mux 

 wide, rounded, 

 tion. This would 



c;;-: 



but slightly flattened, linear, the tip a triangular apicula- 

 Id seem to belone to the Toxicaria section but leaver quiti: 



different Among the live oaks at El Tigre mine, Acaponeta, Nayarit. 

 No. 23016, March 1, 1927. 



Cracca collina N. Sp. Shrubs 3-4 feet high, and rather short- 

 branched. All but the pods hoary v;nth short and dense pubescence. Foc!^ 

 shaggy-hairy with long and yellow hairs. Leaves hardly 1 dm. long, of 3 

 leaflets, 5-7 cm. long and 2 cm. wide, obtuse and rcainded or truncate at 

 both ends, the veins many and raised as in lupinoides, and the ^rrx 

 shape, rather densely pubescent above but less so than btlow. Fruilinp 

 spike about 1 dm. long, dense, of several contiguous pcJ? hardly 1 cm 

 long, rounded and ascending and verj' pilose, and about 5 mm. wide. 

 General appearance that of lupinoides, but inflorescence different, pod^ 

 much shorter, and leaflets raly 3. No. 23015, Tepic, Nayarit, Februar> 



15, 1927. On hillsides. 



Cracca axillaris N. Sp. Slender shrubs 4-6 feet high, widely branch€<} 

 racemosely and with sub-digitately branched axillary racemes about 1 dm 

 long. Stems yellow-felted above as are the leaf-rachis and petiole ano 

 petiolules. Leaves hardly 1 dm. long, of 3 pairs of leaflets 



Petiolules about 4 mm. long and stout. 



Leaflets elliptical, 4-6 cm. long by 2 cm. 



and slightly hairy, and 



the terminal 

 Petioles 



one much the largest, 

 rarely an inch long, and stout. 



Mide, wav)'-margined, thick, dark-green abm'C _ , 



rather shining, lighter colored below and yello^r-pilose on the veins aa« 

 vcinlets which are raised, rounded at tip to acuUsh at times, at base 

 truncate to shortly-cuneate, overlapping. Racemes almost sessile, produang 

 just ahove the base tw» laterals, and s«netime» i*iA an acceswry one s 

 little higher up, which are shorter than the central one whicW is race- 

 mosely flowered almost to the base, nowers about 1 cm. long, jwrpiiso 

 en the margins, the banner very yellow-hairy aa in J"P»°^»^» *?« JVJ^ 

 the calyx. Calyx lobes subulate and shorter than the tube. Pods ?bort- 

 Uyry, cons^piaioasly flattened and wavy margined, acuminate »ith a loa^ 



