Part 3, 1923] FABACEAE: GALEGEAE 171 



34. Cracca lanata (Mart. & Gal.) Kuntze, Rev. 

 Gen. 175. 1891. 



Tephrosia lanata Mart. & Gal. Bull. Acad. Brux. 10=: 48. 1843. 



Tephrosia crassifolia Bcnth. Bot. Voy. Sulph. 80. 1844. 

 Cracca crassifolia Kuntze. Rev. Gen. 174. 1891. 



A shrubby perennial; stems tomentose-villous, flexuose, branched, with gray or on the 

 younger parts yellowish pubescence; leaves 5-12 cm. long; stipules lanceolate, villous, 5-10 

 mm. long; petiole 1 cm. long or less, as well as the rachis densely villous; leaflets 5-9, oblong 

 to oval, rounded at both ends, silky-villous or in age glabrate above, densely villous-canescent, 

 when young often more or less fulvous beneath, strongly veined beneath, the lowest 2-3 cm. 

 long, the odd one 4-8 cm. long, 1.5-4 cm. wide; racemes terminal and in the upper axils, 

 5-10 cm. long, dense, often branched; flowers 2-4 at each node; calyx villous, the tube 2 mm. 

 long, the lobes lanceolate, 5 mm. long, acuminate; corolla rose-red, about 12 mm. long; pod 

 densely fulvous-villous, 4 cm. long, 6 mm. wide. 



Type LOCALITY: Savannas of Zacuapan, Veracruz. 

 Distribution: Veracruz to Guerrero and Sinaloa. 



35. Cracca velutina Rydberg, sp. nov. 



A shrubby perennial; stem densely velutinous, somewhat yellowish, angled; leaves 1-1.5 

 cm. long; stipules lanceolate, velutinous; petiole 1 cm. long or less, as well as the rachis densely 

 velutinous; leaflets oblong, often acutish, coriaceous, strongly reticulate, shining and glabrous 

 or slightly pubescent on the midrib above, finely velutinous beneath, 2-3 cm. broad, the 

 lowest pair about 4 cm. long, the odd leaflet 8-10 cm. long; racemes terminal, about 2 dm. 

 long; bracts lanceolate; flowers 2-4 at each node; calyx yellowish-velutinous, the tube 3 mm. 

 long, the lobes 4 mm long, lance-subulate; corolla rose-colored, 1S-20 mm. long; banner 

 suborbicular, villous without, wings obliquely oblaneeolate; pod 4-5 cm. long, 5-6 mm. wide, 

 velutinous, S or 9-seeded. 



Tvpc collected at Zopelote, Tepic, Pebruary, 1895, F. //. Lamh 575 (herb. N. Y. Bot. Gard.). 

 Distribution: Tepic. 



XI. Langlasseanae Stem monopodial; racemes terminal and in the upper axils, rather 

 lax. Leaves 9-11-foliolate; leaflets broadly lanceolate, acute or acuminate, thin, green above, 

 reddish and pilose beneath. Corolla about 2 cm. long. Pod pilose-villous. 



36. Cracca Langlassei (M. Mieheli) Rose, Contr. U. S. 

 Nat. Herb. 12: 270. 1909. 



Tephrosia Langlassei M. Mieheli, Mem. Soc. Geneve 34: 250. 1903. 



A perennial herb, about 5 dm. high; stem purplish or reddish, pilose; leaves 1-1.5 dm. 

 long; stipules linear-subulate, pilose, 1 cm. long; petiole 1 cm. long; rachis pilose; leaflets 

 9-11, broadly lanceolate, obtuse at the base, acute or acuminate, 4-8 cm. long, 1.5-2 cm. 

 wide, green and pubertilent above, reddish and pilose beneath, reticulate-venose; racemes 

 terminal and in the upper axils; flowers 1-3 at each node; bracts linear-subulate, pilose; 

 calyx pilose, the tulx- 3 mm. long, the lobes lance-subulate, 5 mm. long; corolla lilac, about 2 

 cm. long; banner orbicular; wings obliquely obovate, with a rounded basal auricle; keel 

 acutish; stamens monadelphous, but the uppermost one free at the base; pod 4-5 cm. long, 

 5-7 nun. wide, pilose-villous, 5-7-seeded. 



Tveii locality: Sierra Madre, Guerrero or Michoacan. 

 Distribution: Jalisco to Oaxaca. 



XII. Rugelianae. Stems monopodial; racemes terminal and in the upper axils, short 

 and few-flowered. Leaves 3-1 1-foliolate; leaflets subcoriaceous, obovate, retuse, strigulose 

 above, strigose beneath. Corolla 15-18 mm. long, purple. Pod tomentose. 



