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oblanceolate, shorter than the keel; pod 4.5-5 cm. long, 3-4 mm. wide, slightly arcuate, 

 densely strigose, about 10-seeded. 



Type collected at Cerro Colorado, vicinity of Culiacan, Sinaloa, November 3, 1904, T. S. 

 Brandegee (U. S. Nat. Herb. no. 572117). 



Distribution: Known only from the type locality. 



8. Cracca multifolia Rose, Contr. U. S. Nat. Herb. 12: 270. 

 1909. 



Tephrosia multifolia Rose, Contr. U. S. Nat. Herb. 1: 320. 1895. 



A shrub, 1 m. high or more; stem angled, pilose with long spreading hairs; leaves 1.5 

 dm. long or more; stipules linear-subulate, caducous; petiole 2-3 cm. long; rachis sparingly 

 pilose; leaflets 21-31, narrowly oblong, 3-5 cm. long, rounded at both ends or retuse at the 

 apex, mucronate, green and strigose above, paler and loosely pilose beneath; racemes terminal 

 and from the upper axils, 1-2 dm. long; bracts subulate; calyx pilose, the tube 2-2.5 mm. 

 long, the lobes deltoid, acuminate, 4 mm. long; corolla purplish, 12-15 mm. long; banner 

 orbicular; wings oblong-cblanceolate; stamens monadelphous above; pod silky-pilose, 5-6 cm. 

 long, 5 mm. wide, about 10-seeded; seeds 4 mm. broad. 



Typb locality: Manzanillo, Tepic. 

 Distribution: Tepic. 



IV. Virginianae. Stem monopodial; racemes terminal and in the upper axils, short and 

 rather dense. Leaves 1 1-29-foliolate; leaflets oblong, obtuse, thin; stipules subulate to 

 setaceous, deciduous. Corolla 10-18 mm. long, yellowish or whitish. Pod pubescent. 



9. Cracca latidens Small, Fl. SE. U. S. 609, 1331. 

 1903. 



A perennial, with a woody branched iootstock; stems several, tufted, 2-5 dm. high, 

 striate or sulcate, strigose- canescent; leaves 5-9 cm. long; stipules lance-linear, caducous; 

 petiole about 5 mm. long; rachis silky-strigose; leaflets 19-37, broadly oblong or oblong- 

 cuneate, 9-17 mm. long, mucronate, glabrate above, silky-strigose beneath; flowers few in 

 terminal racemes; bracts subulate-; calyx densely silky strigose, the tube 3 mm. long, the lobes 

 broadly ovate, abruptly acuminate, 3 mm. long; corolla IS mm. long, similar to that of C. 

 virginiana; banner sparingly pubescent without; pod unknown, but the young ovary silky- 

 strigose. 



Type locality: [Kustis], central peninsular Florida. 



Distribution: Known only from the type locality. 



10 Cracca Mohrii Rydberg, sp. nov. 



A perennial herb; stem 2-3 dm. high; leaves 5-7 cm. long; stipules minute, subulate, 

 caducous; rachis short-strigose ; leaflets 11-21, oblong, acute at each end, mucronate, 6-18 

 mm. long, 3-6 mm. wide, glabrous and green above, short-strigose and purplish-brown be- 

 neath, reticulate; flowers few, in a teiminal raceme, or a few also in the upper axils; pedicels 

 4 mm. long; calyx short-strigose, the tube 2 mm. long, the lobes ovate-lanceolate, acuminate, 

 2.5 mm. long; corolla yellowish, or the wings rose-tinged, about 1 cm. long; pod about 5 cm. 

 long, 5 mm. wide, arcuate, long-acuminate, short-hirsute, 7-9-seeded. 



Type collected in Florida, June, 1880, Charles Mohr (U. S. Nat. Herb. no. 773335). 



1 1 . Cracca leucosericea Rydberg, sp. nov. 



A perennial herb, with a branched caudex; stems several, 3-5 dm. high, appressed-silky, 

 striate; leaves 5-10 cm. long; stipules subulate-setaceous, caducous, about 8 mm. long; rachis 

 appressed-silky; leaflets 11-29, linear-oblong to lance-elliptic, those of the lower leaves often 

 obtuse, the rest acute and aciculate, 1.5-2.5 cm. long, 5-6 mm. wide, glabrate above, silky 

 beneath; tlouers in terminal racemes; pedicels 1-1.5 cm. long, silky; calyx densely appressed- 

 silky, almost silvery-white, the tube 3 mm. long, the lobes ovate-lanceolate, short-acuminate, 



