162 NORTH AMERICAN FLORA [Vui.ume 24 



4. Cracca cuemavacana Rose, Contr. U. S. Nat. 

 Herb. 12:269. 1909. 



A herbaceous perennial; stems 6-9 cm. high, rusty-pilose with short ascending hairs; 



leaves 6-10 em. long; stipules lance-subulate, 7-10 mm. long; petiole about 1 cm. long; 



rachis rusty-pilose; leaflets 19-25, elliptic or oblong, obtuse, mueronate, 1.5-2.5 cm. long, 



glabrous above, silky-strigose beneath; racemes axillary, including the peduncles 6-8 cm. 



long, densely flowered, the flowers all near the end of the peduncle, 1 or 2 at each node; bracts 



lanceolate, acuminate, silky, about 1 cm. long; calyx rusty-sericeous, the tube scarcely 2 mm. 



long, the lobes subulate, 2.5 mm. long; corolla nearly white, 15 mm. long; banner obovate, 



strigose on the back; wings obliquely oblanceolate, obscurely auriculate at the base; pod 



straight, 4 cm. long, 4 mm. broad, acute, glabrous, except on the sutures, about 6 seeded. 



Type locality: Above Cuernavaca, Morelos. 

 Distribution: Known only from the type locality. 



5. Cracca Conzattii Rydberg, sp. nov. 



A shrubby perennial, apparently 1 m. or more high; stems with yellowish-gray bark; 

 branches velutinous-pubescent with ferruginous hairs; leaves 5-15 cm. long; stipules subulate, 

 7-10 mm. long; petiole 1-2 cm. long, as well as the rachis velutinous; leaflets 15-25, linear or 

 linear-oblong, 1.5-3 cm. long, 3-5 mm. wide, strigose on both sides, somewhat canescent 

 beneath, euspidate-mucronate; racemes terminal and axillary, but the latter usually first 

 and best developed, 1.5 dm. long or more; bracts subulate, 7-10 mm. long; calyx silky-strigose, 

 the tube 3 mm. long, the lobes lanceolate-acuminate, 3 mm. long; corolla rose-colored, 15 mm. 

 long; banner obovate, silky-strigose and yellowish without; wings obliquely obovate with a 

 large basal auricle; mature pod unknown, the young pod glabrous, except the hirsute upper 

 suture. 



Type collected at Las Sedas, Oaxaca, May 19, 1907, C. Consatli 1786 (U. S. Nat. Herb.no. 

 4749S0). 



III. Foliolosae. Stem monopodial or sympodial; racemes terminal and'also at the nodes, 

 the latter usually neither axillary nor opposite the leaves, but more or less obliquely arranged, 

 long and lax, many-flowered. Leaves 13-31-foliolate; stipules subulate, caducous. Corolla 

 15-18 mm. long, white or purple. Pod pubescent. 



6. Cracca rhodantha (Brand.) Rose Contr. U. S. Nat. 

 Herb. 12: 270. 1909. 



Tephrosis rhodantha Brand. Zoe 5: 201. 1905. 



A perennial herb; stems several, 4-6 dm. high, hirsutulous, terete; leaves 1-1.5 dm. 

 long; stipules subulate, about 7 mm. long; petiole 1-2 cm. long; rachis sparingly hirsutulous; 

 leaflets 11-19, oblong, 2-4 cm. long, 6-10 mm. wide, rounded at both ends, mueronate, hir- 

 sutulous-strigose on both sides, paler beneath; racemes terminal and in the upper axils, 1.5-2 

 dm. long; bracts subulate, 5-7 mm. long; calyx strigose, the tube 1.5-2 mm. long, the lobes 

 2-2.5 mm. long, subulate; corolla brick-red or purplish, 10-12 mm. long; banner obovate, 

 silky-strigose without; wings obliquely obovate; upper stamen distinct; pod 5.5-6.5 cm. 

 long, 4 mm. wide, slightly arcuate, sparingly hirsutulous-strigose, 10-12-seeded. 



Tyfb locality: Cofradia, Sinaloa. 



Distribution: Sinaloa. 



7. Cracca foliolosa Rydberg, sp. nov. 



A shrub, 2 m. high; stem angled, strigose; leaves 1-2 dm. long; stipules subulate, 5 mm. 

 long, deciduous; petiole 1.5-2 cm. long; rachis strigose; leaflets 17-31, oblong, 4-5 mm. long, 

 obtuse at each end, mueronate, strigulose or glabrate above, strigose beneath; racemes ter- 

 minal and in the upper axils, lax, 7-20 cm. long; bracts subulate-setaceous; flowers 1 or 2 

 at each node; calyx strigose, the tube 3 mm. long, the lobes triangular, contracted into a 

 subulate tip; corolla nearly white, 15 mm. long; banner rounded-obovate; wings oblong- 



