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pubescent with long white silk}- hairs; leaflets 3, orbicu- 

 lar, mucronate, 3-6 cm. broad, T,%-6j4 cm. long, the 

 lateral one truncate at base, the terminal one somewhat 

 larger and cuneate at base; stipules persistent, large, 

 overlapping at base, acuminate, 10-18 mm. long, 5-8 

 mm. wide at base; stipels lanceolate, 8 mm. long: ra- 

 cemes axillary and terminal: calyx lobes deltoid - lanceo- 

 late : corolla purple, 10-12 mm. long: bracts soon decid- 

 uous, broadly ovate, rather abruptlv acuminate, 5-6 mm. 

 long: pod 2}4 cm. long, ^-6 jointed, lobed slightly upon 

 the ventral side and to the center on the dorsal, thickly 

 beset with short uncinate yellowish hairs. 



A common species at high elevations in the mountains. 

 The prostrate stems spread in all directions from a per- 

 ennial root; the leaflets are crowded at the end of the 

 petiole, the stipe of the terminal one being only i cm. 

 long. It somewhat resembles D. strohilaceuui . 



148. Desmodium scorpiurus Desv. — Probably in- 

 troduced. — San Jose del Cabo. 



149. Desmodium Wislizexi Engelm. Old specimens 

 without fruit from the Sierra de la Laguna. 



150. Desmodium spirale DC. — Miraflores. 



151. Desmodium, sp. Santa Catarina. 



152. Desmodium, sp. Sierra de San Francisquito. 



153. Desmodium, sp. Sierra de San Francisquito. 



154. Desmodium, sp. Miraflores. 



155. DesmodiUxM, sp. Miraflores. 



156. Clitoria Mariana L. — Sierra de San Fran- 

 cisquito. 



157. Erythrina coraleodendron L. In fruit only 

 and the species uncertain. A small tree common about 

 San Jose del Cabo and Todos Santos. Known as " co- 

 ralina." The boys plav with the large red seeds in the 



