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174. Cassia occidentalis L. — San Jose del Cabo, 

 San Bartolome. 



175. Cassia nicticans L. Very abundant about San 

 Jose del Cabo. 



176. Cassia Absus L. — Miraflores. 



177. Bauhinia porrecta Sw. Var.? A large bush 

 growing abundantly between Santiago and Buena Vista. 

 Very near, if not identical with, this West Indian species. 



178. Tamarindus Indica L. — Common in cultivation 

 about San Jose del Cabo. 



179. Prosopis juliflora DC. — La Paz. 



180. Neptunia plena Benth. — San Jose del Cabo. 



181. Desmanthus fruticosus Rose. A bush ten 

 feet high. — San Jose del Cabo. 



This must be D. virgatus of Bot. Sulph. as well as 

 of the writer's previous list, from Magdalena Bay. 



182. Desmanthus oligospermus. A prostrate spread- 

 ing shrub; stems branching, 2 dm. long; leaves i^ cm. 

 long; pinna? 2-4 pairs, a small gland between the lower 

 pair; leaflets 8-12 pairs, sparingly pubescent especially 

 upon the margins, oblique, linear-oblong, i-nerved, 4 mm. 

 long; stipules semisagittate, rigid; flowers in small heads 

 on axillary peduncles, i^ cm. long, nearly white; calyx 

 5-toothed, I mm. long; petals 5, i>^ mm. long, stamens 

 5, three times longer; bracts of the head stipitate, pel- 

 tate, cordate-acuminate, caducous; pod 7 mm. long, 2 

 mm. wide, ovate-acuminate, 1-2 seeded, indehiscent; 

 seeds oblique, flat, marked on the sides, smooth; cotyle- 

 dons oval-oblong, sagittate at base, the space filled by 

 the short radicle. 



Common about San Jose del Cabo, growing in exposed 

 situations. The legumes are nearly always one-seeded 

 and the number in the head varies from five to ten. 



