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XXXIIL. CONTRIBUTIONS TO THE FLORA OF 
SINALOA: III.* 
L. A. M. Rinsy. 
LEGUMINOSAE, subfamily PAPILIONACEAE. 
Crotalaria eriocarpa Benth. Bot. Sulph. 80 (1844), quoad 
specimen Beecheya anum; Hemsl. Biol. i. 226, partim; Rose in 
CNH. viii. 47, in obs.; Zoe, v. 201; Standley in CNH. xxiii. 437. 
excl. syn. C. viminalis—C. incana var. 8 Hook. et Arn. Bot. 
Beech. 285. 
Tepic, Lay and Collie. ieee Mazatlan, fl. Dec. 1848, 
Seemann 1526 ; Cofradia, Brande 
Vernacular. names “ Tronador,” > « Cascabe lito ; 
C. eriocarpa Benth. and C. viminalis Rose are different species, 
as pointed out by Rose, l.c. The type of the former is Lay and 
Collie’s specimen from Tepic, which Hooker and Arnott 
previously described as C. incana var. 8B. Tate’s specimen cited 
by Bentham, l.c., which is unlocalized, is probably C. viminalis. 
C. eriocarpa differs from C. viminalis in the much shorter 
and more numerous branchlets clothed with a dense tawny 
subappressed indumentum: shorter racemes, smaller bracts and 
flowers, and the appressed indumentum of the calyx 
Crotalaria polyphylla Riley, sp. nov.; fruticulus foliis numerosis 
confertis lineari- vel oblongo-lanceolatis sericeis, caulibus inferne 
propter bases prominentes foliorum delapsorum nodulosis dis- 
tinctus. 
Caules lignosi, rigidi, ramosi, et ae ea fulvo- 
sericei, annotini appresse griseo-pilosi, 1-5 mm. diametro 1 dm. 
infra apices. Folia simplicia, brevissime sotzalats, “eldatur 
exstipuJata, superiora lineari- vel oblongo-lanceolata, inferiora 
oblonga, acuminata, basi subrotundata, discolora, supra exsic- 
cando brunnea, griseo-pilosa, subtus fulvo-sericea, 1-5-3 cm. 
longa, 3-5 mm. lata, inferiora quam eo geete breviora et latiora ; 
petioli vix 1 mm. longi, Pedunculi 2-2-5 em. longi, pauciflori. 
Bracteae lineari-lanceolatae vel subulatae, fulvo. -sericeae, 4-5 mm. 
longae. Pedicelli 5-6 mm. longi. Bracteolae lineari-acuminatae, 
laribus acutis basi 2-5 mm. ‘itis sinu intermedio 5 mm. alto; 
labium inferius dentibus acuminato-triangularibus basi 1 -5 mm. 
latis, sinibus intermediis 7 mm. altis. Corolla pellucido-punctata ; 
vexillum 1 em. longum, 9mm. latum, in basin gradatim angusta- 
tum; alae obovato-oblongae, 9 mm. longae ungue incluso, 3-5 mm. 
latae, venis conspicuis, ungue 1 mm. longo; carinae petala 
9-5 mm. longa, 4 mm. lata, 6-5 mm. conjuncta, ungue 1 mm. 
* Continued from K.B., 1923, p. 175. 
