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lunatisve coriaceis glabris (nunc locv 



turis utroque 



oflexis subbilocellatis. 



Near Austin, Texas, in Mr. Wrighfs 



earlier collection. (Near Houston 

 noisj Dr. Mead.) 



Brazos* L 



Mason County 



bluish or purplish 



keel 



ped 



with violet ; the vexiUum conspicuously notched at the apex. Pod 7 to 9 lines 

 long, following the curvature, not usually abruptly bent or twisted, but strongly 



Jm 



arcuate or 

 through the 



ed, at least when fully ripe, broad 



sely than 



A. obcordatus has obcordate leaflets, an entire or barely re- 

 much broader and larger legumes, which are chartaceous, latcral- 

 ly compressed, straighter, slightly lunate, with the upper suture saUent and acute, the 

 lower introflexed, but so little that Mr. Shuttleworth referred the plant to Phaca. 



A. MOLLissiMus, Torr. in Ann. Lyc. K Y. 2. j). 178; Grai/, Pl. Fendl. p. 35. 



coll. of 1851, in fruit. 

 140. OxYTROPis Lamberti, Pursh; Bot Maa. t 2U7; Bot Reg. t 1054 (var.). 



New 



Hills east of Austin, Texas, April 

 ly-racemed form of the species 



flower. A remarkably large-flowcred, loose 



141. Desmodium Neo-Mexicanum (sp. nov.) 



pubes 



caule giacili 



bpedali erecto ramoso ; fol 



foliolatis: foliolis Hnearib 



mucr 



subtus pra^cipue ad mar 



mento substipitato, articulis parvis puberulis rotundatis med 

 valley 30 miles east of El Paso ; Oct. Specimens in fruit only 



statis ; lo- 

 Mountain 

 Leaflets froni half 



inch to an inch and a quarter lonsf, one to two lines wide, acutish, strongly and 



coarsely 



ticulated beneath. Flowers small. . Fructiferous pedicels half 



fiK 



ig or more 

 142. 



Joints of the loment little over a line in diameter 



pe 



Desmodium Wrightii {Gray, PJ. Lindh. 2. p. 177 

 gracilibus ramosis puberuhs ; foliis omnibus unifoliolatis breviter petiolatis 



foliolo membranaceo oblono^i.ovato basi subcordato fere glabro subt 



stipu- 



lis 



minimis 



racemis laxis; lomento 3 - 4-articulato br 



stipitato, articulis insequilateris ovalibus. 



Tbickets near Austin, Texas. (In deep 



ky ravines of the Guadaloupe above New Braunfels, Lindheimer, 1850.) 



Stems 



feet high. Leaves veiny, pale and minutely pubescent underneath 





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cronulate; the larg 



two inches long, on petioles half an inch long ; the upper 



sometimes 

 neal tube. 



Legume less than an inch long ; the stipe as long as the 



143. Crotalaria lupulina, DC. Prodr. % p. 133. 

 Elisario and El Paso ; introduced. Called « Frijolillo 



Fields, near Presidio de San 



* AUied to this and to the succeedlng is the subjoined from Northern Mexico : 



WlSLIZENI 



fusls ; foliis inferioribus unifoliolatis, summis ssepius trifoliolatis ; foliolo terminali ovato vel oblongo obtu- 

 so Sicpe subcordato reticulato scabrido, laterahbus dum adsunt minoribus oblongis ; stipuhs bructe.sque 



s conspicuis ; racemo elongato ; lomento breviter stipitato 3 - 6-articulato, articulis ovah- 

 rhomboideis glaberrimis medio adnexis.— CosiauiriachL Northern Rlexj cp, Wislizenxis . - Si^ms a span or 



Leaflets thicker than those of D. Wrightii, conspicuously reticulated underneath, 6 to 10 

 Flowers very small. Loment 5 to 8 lines long when of 4 or 5 joints. 



subulato 



more in length. 

 lines long. 



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