134 PITTONIA. 
veins finer but of lighter color, no part of the plant glabrous, 
the stem almost canescently puberulent, as also the petioles 
and rachis of the leaves, the leaflets on both faces sparingly 
appressed-pubescent: leaflets small, the largest little exceed- 
ing an inch in length, others only } inch, round-ovate to 
obliquely oval, obtuse, mucronulate, the lobed ones with 
closed sinuses: sepals dark-purple, oblong-ovate, acuminate, 
densely puberulent without: carpels not seen. 
Limpia Cafion, western Texas, 26 April, 1902. 
LESQUERELLA FOLIACEA. Perennial, the several stems 
erect from the base, or sometimes decumbent, 3 to 6 inches 
high, very leafy, silvery-lepidote, the scales orbicular, parted 
to the middle or more deeply into 18 and 20 setiform rays: 
leaves all oblanceolate, acute, about 1 inch long, both faces 
equally stellate-lepidote: racemes rather strict, the lower 
pedicels axillary to well-developed leaves, such leaves ap- 
pearing at intervals all through the raceme, even to near 
its summit; pedicels stout, rigid, suberect: sepals narrow, 
persistent: pods subglobose, slightly compressed, glabrous, 
2 lines high, tipped with a style as long. 
Big Springs, 12 May, 1902. 
CHAMCRISTA PUBERULA. Stout annual, freely branch- 
ing and widely, the branches several feet long, apparently 
decumbent, all parts of the plant puberulent: leaves not 
large, their leaflets in 7 to 10 pairs and crowded, oblong, °F 
linear-oblong, very inequilateral, sharply mucronate, conspl¢- 
uously almost parallel-veined, ciliate with short incurved 
hairs: flowers several in the axils; buds ovate, merely 
acute; corollas about # inch broad; growing ovaries hoary- 
strigulose; pods about 1} inches long, slightly curved, ob- 
tusish, appressed-puberluent. 
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On Galveston Island, 23 Sept. 1901. Evid ently a large 
and maritime species. | 
