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seed 7 mm. long, oblanceolate, flat, smooth, olive-brown, with a narrow basal lobe, filling one 

 third to two fifths the length of the pod. 



Type locality: Guatemala. 



Distribution: Woodlands or thickets, Guatemala. 



Illustration: Rep. Smithson. Inst. 1915: 279./. lb. 



8. Eysenhardtia angustifolia Pennell, sp. nov. 



A much branched small tree, 3-4 m. high ; stems grayish-brown, the young growth canescent 

 with whitish incurved to appressed hairs; leaves 8-9 cm. long, spreading; stipules 3-4 mm. 

 long, grayish, filiform; stipels subulate, less than 0.5 mm. long, shorter than the petiolules, 

 deciduous; leaflets 37-47, narrowly oblong, 10-12 mm. long, dull-green above, slightly paler 

 beneath, puberulent above and beneath, punctate beneath with small nearly black dots, reticu- 

 late above, firm; racemes 4-7 cm. long; bracts 1-2 mm. long, ovate-acuminate, brown, pubes- 

 cent, more or less persistent through anthesis; calyx-tube 2.3-3 mm. long, glandular-dotted, 

 finely canescent, ridged, split slightly more deeply on the posterior side; lobes 0.6-0.8 mm. 

 long, obtusish, pubescent; petals 4-4.5 mm. long, membranous, from less than twice to twice 

 as long as the calyx, the standard broader, broadly emarginate; style 2.5-3 mm. long, pubes- 

 cent, slightly upcurved at the apex, the gland at the curve large, conspicuous, pale- yellowish; 

 pods 7-8 mm. long, 2-2.2 mm. wide, slightly thickened, greenish-brown, glabrous, punctate 

 distally with relatively large glands, slightly upcurved at the apex, at maturity ascending on 

 pedicels 0.5-0.6 mm. long; seed 3.3 mm. long, lanceolate, thickened, very smooth, olive-brown, 

 with a broad basal lobe, filling one half to three fifths the length of the pod. 



Type collected in flower and fruit, at Sanderson [Terrill County], Texas, September 29, 1911, 

 E. O. Wooion (U. S. Nat. Herb.). 



Distribution: Trans-Pecos region of Texas. 



9. Eysenhardtia texana Scheele, Linnaea 21: 462. 1848. 



A much branched shrub, 2.5-3.5 m. high; stems gray, the young growth more or less canes- 

 cent with appressed white hairs; leaves 3-6 cm. long, spreading; stipules 2-3 mm. long, brown- 

 ish, subulate; stipels subulate, less than 0.5 mm. long, shorter than the petiolules, more or less 

 persistent; leaflets 15-31, oblong, 5-11 mm. long, dull-green above, slightly paler beneath, 

 more or less puberulent above and beneath, punctate beneath with minute dark dots, obscurely 

 reticulate above, firm; racemes 3-11 cm. long; bracts 1-2 mm. long, ovate-lanceolate, brown, 

 pubescent, more or less persistent until anthesis; calyx-tube 2-2.2 mm. long, glandular-dotted, 

 more or less canescent-puberulent, slightly ridged, split much more deeply (but not to the mid- 

 dle) on the posterior side; lobes 0.6-0.9 mm. long, obtusish to acute, finely pubescent; petals 

 4-5 mm. long, membranous, more than twice as long as the calyx, the standard slightly broader, 

 rounded to slightly emarginate; style 2.5-3 mm. long, pubescent, slightly upcurved at the apex, 

 the gland at the curve short and thick, conspicuous, reddish-brown; pods 7-10 mm. long, 1.7— 

 2.5 mm. wide, thickened, greenish-brown, glabrous, punctate distally with evident glands, 

 more or less strongly upcurved throughout, at maturity ascending, on pedicels 0.5-1 mm. long; 

 seed 3.2-3.7 mm. long, lanceolate to obovoid, thickened, very smooth, brown, with a broad 

 basal lobe, filling three fifths to two thirds the length of the pod. 



Type locality: New Braunfels, Texas. 



Distribution: Dry hillsides and canons, southern Texas to Coahuila and Tamaulipas. 



Illustration: Rep. Smithson. Inst. 1915: 284./. 2a. 



10. Eysenhardtia parvifolia Brand. Univ. Calif. Publ. Bot. 4: 

 180. 1911. 



An intricately branched shrub; stems gray, the young growth canescent with incurved to 

 appressed white hairs; leaves 0.9-1.2 cm. long, spreading; stipules 1-2 mm. long, brown, fili- 

 form; stipels not seen, early deciduous and probably minute; leaflets 9-13, elliptic-oval, 2-2.5 

 mm. long, green above, scarcely paler beneath, glabrate above and beneath, punctate beneath 

 with brownish dots, not reticulate above, fleshy; racemes 0.5-1 cm. long; bracts 1-2 mm. long, 

 lanceolate, brown, pubescent, persisting till after anthesis; calyx-tube 2 mm. long, dotted with 



