Part 3, 1923] FABACEAE: GALEGEAE 189 



acute, 2-4 cm. long, strongly reticulate, glabrous; stipels present, small, spinulose; flowers 

 axillary, 1-4 together; pedicels 1-3 cm. long; bractlets obsolete; calyx nearly 2 cm. long, 

 glabrous, the lobes lanceolate, acuminate, the lowest one slightly longer than the rest ; corolla 

 2-2.5 cm. long, yellowish-brown, drying purple; pod glabrous, 7-8 cm. long, nearly 2 cm. 

 wide, 3-7-seeded. 



Type locality: Tequila, Jalisco. 



Distribution: Jalisco, Guerrero, and Miehoacdn. 



3. Brongniartia glabrata H. & A. Bot. Beech. Voy. 288. 1836. 



A low shrub; branchlets glabrous; leaves 6-18 cm. long; stipules lanceolate or ovate- 

 lanceolate, 5 mm. long or less, deciduous; petioles and rachis glabrous; petioles 2-4 mm. 

 long; leaflets 5-13, oval, rounded or obtuse at each end, mucronate at the apex, 1-4 cm. 

 long, 0.5-2 cm. wide, somewhat reticulate, apparently glabrous, but under a lens sparingly 

 and minutely strigillose; flowers pseudo-racemose, the inflorescence naked, i. e., the floral 

 leaves reduced to the inconspicuous, caducous stipules; flowers 1 or 2 at each node; pedicels 

 2-3 cm. long, strigillose; bractlets ovate, strigillose, early caducous; calyx about 18 mm. 

 long, strigillose, the lobes lanceolate, acute; corolla purple; banner broadly obovate, about 2 

 cm. long, with a thick claw 4 mm. long; wings obliquely obovate, with a deltoid basal auricle, 

 nearly 2 cm. long, the claw 2 mm. long; keel-petals obliquely oblanceolate, 2-3 mm. long; pod 

 glabrous, about S cm. long, 1.5 cm. wide, the stipe about 1 cm. long; seed about 8 mm. long. 

 5 mm. wide. • . 



Type locality: Tepic. 



Distribution. Tepic. 



4. Brongniartia paniculata Rose, sp. nov. 



A shrub; branches terete, glabrous, light-green; leavesabout 15 cm. long; stipules caducous; 

 petiole and rachis glabrous; petiolules 2-3 mm. long; leaflets 11-13, oval, rounded at each 

 end, mucronate, 3-4 cm. long, glabrous on both sides, reticulate; flowers pseudo-racemose, 

 the inflorescence leafless, i. e., the floral leaves reduced to the small bractlike stipules, which 

 are lanceolate, 2-4 mm. long, caducous; flowers 1 or 2 at each node; pedicels 1-2 cm. long; 

 bractlets early caducous; calyx 15 mm. long, glabrous, the lobes lanceolate, acute, the upper 

 two united three-fourths their length; corolla pink; banner broadly obovate, fully 2 cm. 

 long; wings obliquely obovate, with a small basal auricle; keel-petals obliquely obovate, 

 somewhat shorter; pod glabrous, not seen mature. 



Type collected near Cuernavaca, Morelos, November 19, 1S95, Pringle 7051 (Gray Herb.). 



5. Brongniartia podalyrioides H.B.K. Nov. Gen. & Sp. 6: 468. 

 1823. 



Brongniartia galegoides Presl, Syuib. Bot. 2: 21. 1852. 



Astragalus frutescens Kunth, Ind. Sem. Hort. Berol 1845: 12. 1845. 



A shrub, 3-30 dm. high; erect or procumbent; branches glabrous; leaves 1-2 dm 

 long; stipules semicordate or semihastate, 1-2.5 cm. long, glabrous, reticulate, acute or obtuse, 

 sparingly silky when young, glabrate in age, persistent; petioles 1-2 cm. long; leaflets 5-13, 

 or on sterile shoots 15-17, elliptic cr oval, rounded or acute at either end, mucronate or cus- 

 pidate, reticulate-venose, membranous, appressed-silky when young, glabrate in age, 2-5 

 cm. long, 1-2 cm. wide; flowers pseudo-racemose; pedicels 1-2 cm. long, usually 2-4 in each 

 leaf-axil, the upper leaves being reduced to the foliaceous stipules; bractlets minute or wanting; 

 calyx campanulate, glabrous, 1.5 cm. high, the lobes lanceolate, 7-8 mm. long, acute, the 

 upper two united three-fourths their length; corolla purplish or flesh-colored; banner sub- 

 orbicular, with a short claw, slightly retuse, 2-2.5 cm. long; wings obliquely obovate, subfalcate, 

 with a short claw; keel-petals similar, but broader at the apex; pod 5-7 cm. long, 1.5 cm. 

 wide, glabrous, reticulate, short-stipitate, 4— 9-seeded. 



Type locality: La Puenta de Ixtla, between Tasco and Cuernavaca, Morelos. 



Distribution: Morelos and Guerrero. 



Illustration: H.B.K. Nov. Gen. & Sp. pi. 58S; Presl, Symb. Bot. pi. 67. 



