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138 ^ CaNTRlBUTIONS TO WESTERN BOTANY NO, \s 



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teak, and very sKortly sb'pitate' No.'. 23022, El Tigremme, Acupoiivta, 



Nayarit, March 1, 1927, among the live oaks. This seems related . to 

 .lupinoides in the leaves, but inflorescence entirely different, • " 



! ..^ Palea Blasiana N. Sp. Slender and erect and v/idely branched shrub 

 -with long branches which are gray with very short and spreading pubcr- 



cence, and interhodes much longer than the leaves. Leave? gray with 



ppressed 



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colored. Leaves -2-3 cm." long, on filiform pctio'es about 1 cm. lon^. 

 .Leaflets 5-11, oval-obovate, rounded to retu.^c at tip, with many black or 

 ■reddish glands,' flat. Flowers in dense and' almost sessile spikes 2-3 

 inches long which at first are silvery-silky, . and black wiih- age: Petals 

 purple and almost as long as the capillary caly-"^ ^obes which are about' 7 

 •nim. long (includmg the calyx tube). Bracts vath long and capillar)- 

 tips, deciduous. Calyx tube 2-3 mm. long, with evident glands, silky- 

 ■eillous, open-capanulate, the lobes plumose. Fruit deltoid-triangular, with 

 Tsubulate tip produced on one corner, smooth below and long-villous above. 

 One .seeded-. This plant is easily mistaken for a Lespedeza. ■ No. 23040. 



San Bias Sinaloa, February I, 1927. Plant about a yard high, growins; 

 on sloi>es. j b > ^ s 



. Lotus ramulb.-.us N. Sp. Allied to Hosackia Eiyanti Brandegee. 

 Pro.5trate and woody rooted perennial with very slender filiform stems a 

 foot and a half long, and .sparingly branched throughout and prostrate, 

 fornimg open masses 2 to 3 ". feet . in diameter, or spreading upward on 

 hushes. Green but slightly hair>- throughout. Upper, part of stems with' 



^ipjle umbels m the axils on capillary peduncles. 2 fnches long, 

 wiih 1-3 pairs of leaflets about 1' cm. long. Leaflets linear but a 



Leavt^s' 



acumi 



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at.bo.h ends, and so having ah elliptical. outline, 1-2 mm. wide. StipuUs' 

 nnd bracts reduced tbmmute- deltoid brown scales, -or a mere rudiment; 



I ■\''''jJu ^.^^^'''^""^^ ^^°"^ 15: mm. long, with the bright banner 

 oark-reddish-purple at tip, and wings 'and keel white. Flowers not showy,' 

 much: scattered, one to two on the ends of the ver>- long peduncles and on 

 pedicels about 1 mm long. Calyx about 7 mm. long, the subulate lobes 

 Jinii:- the whole reddish, sparsely hai'ry, very hairy-cilate on the margins ' 

 and edges of the^ teeth. Pods 1.5 .cm. long and 2 mm. wide, ashy ancf '• 

 l^ecommg smoothish, -arched a Tittle' toward tip.- This has the pcnerrir^ 

 habit or rigida, but IS not silky-villpus. as in Bryanti, and pods wider.'^ 

 and.leaEets never lanceolate. Growing in open places along with Astra^ " 

 galus Lagunensis among live paks at ." " " ' ' ■ ' 



mountains. ■ March 1, 19'2"8, No.' 24271." 

 '^ alariodes 



acninU 



. venoms crotalanodesN. Sp. Perennial from spreading root3,-erect,-a-- 

 f cot .^_ two^ high, leafy and with short inlemodes. -Stems flexuous, striate.- 

 .p^admg-stngose with flat jointed, twisted and glandular hairs, the gland" 

 terpnnal and oblong Whole plant similarly pubescent except the-^vhite ' 

 ft: ^^'^f^^-^ -inches long, of about 7 pairs of €1110-10^1 to t^blong ' 

 leaSets about 1 cm. long. which are seldom opposite, conspicuously ser- ■' 

 n^ findy. ra is ^.-nerved. . Stipules, deltoid, . gU, .deeply -^l5-tcithetf.- ^ 

 paraL.; vi.t«:d. fu,.; &• ^,:,t ion. lowers 6-8 mm. Iot{^. ..^-4c-i- the-- 

 axi]^,;on a stout pcc.-ncle 2-braft.d in the i.-'r-,. c.,i^.,.:j ^^^^ ,,n.,..j^ 



