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shorter than the flowers, bracteate at base, and with two 

 broad bracteoles at summit: calvx broadly campanulate 

 6-8 mm. long, the broad acuminate lobes twice the length 

 of the tube, the two upper high-connate: corolla more 

 than twice the length of the ochroleucous or sometimes 

 purplish corolla : vexillary stamen free for its whole length 

 even in the bud, with a prominent angular callosity near 

 the base; anthers uniform: style flattened bearded on the 

 upper side, penicillate at apex: pod flattened 6-8 cm. 

 long, 4 mm. wide: seeds oblong, flattened, 5 mm. long, 

 3 mm. wide; cotyledons of the soHtary perfect one deeply 

 constricted at the middle: radicle incurved, half their 

 length. High Sierras — Sierra de la Laguna and Sierra 

 de San Francisquito. 



136. CouRSETiA (3LANDULOSA Gray. — Miraflores, 

 La Paz. 



137. Cracca Edwardsii Gray. — Miraflores, San 

 Pedro, Sierra de la Laguna. The mountain plants are 

 about a foot high, and bear small very silky pubescent 

 leaves; the Miraflores plants are three feet high, with the 

 old leaves nearh^ glabrous, almost an inch long and pods 

 two to three inches long, 24-seeded. 



138. Sesbania macrocarpa Muhl. — Rancho Salado, 

 and very abundant about San Jose del Cabo. 



139. AsTRALAGUs, sp. Differing from A. ohscurics, 

 Watson, very slightly ; the habit is more prostrate, the 

 stipules more foliaceous and the keel a little more beaked. 

 As it seems to grow only about the two deserted ranches 

 of the high mountains it is probably an introduced plant. 

 Sierra de la Laguna, Sierra de San Francisquito. 



140. NissoLiA SETOSA. A branching vine, 3-4 mm. 

 high, supported or twining on small trees, sparingly hir- 

 sute : leaflets 5, orbicular, obtuse or retuse, mucronate. 



