Part 3, 1923] FABACEAE: GALEGEAE 191 



10. Brongniartia pauciflora Rose, sp. nov. 



A low shrub; branches glabrous; leaves about 5 cm. long; stipules large, obliquely cordate, 

 8-10 mm. long, acute; petiolules scarcely 1 mm. long; leaflets 5-11, broadly oval, acutish at 

 the base, cuspidate at the apex, 1-1.5 cm. long, thin, faintly veined, glabrous; flowers solitary 

 in the axils; pedicels about 1 cm. long; calyx glabrous, 10-12 mm. long, the lobes lanceolate, 

 acute; corolla about 1.5 cm. long; banner orbicular, short-clawed; wings and keel-petals 

 obliquely obovate, the former with a deltoid basal auricle; ovary glabrous; pod unknown. 



Type collected at the mouth of Rio Quintepec, district of Cuicatlan, Oaxaca, June 20, 1919, 

 Conzalti i? Cancino 2439 (U. S. Nat. Herb. no. S41050). 



1 1 . Brongniartia Goldmanii Rose, Contr. U.S. Nat. 

 Herb. 12:269. 1909. 



A small tree, 2-3 m. high; young branches short-pilose with spreading hairs; leaves about 



1 dm. long; stipules early deciduous; petiole about 1 cm. long, as well as the rachis short- 

 pilose; leaflets 7-9, oblong or elliptic, 1-2.5 cm. long, rounded at each end or retuse at the apex, 

 finely pubescent on both sides when young, glabrate above; flowers 1 or 2, rarely 3 or 4 in 

 each axil; pedicels -1-1.5 cm. long, pilose; bractlets rounded-oval, 7 mm. long, densely 

 pubescent; calyx subvelutinous with dark-brownish hairs, 15 mm. long; corolla 18 mm. long, 

 rose-purple; pod 4-5 cm. long, 1.5 cm. wide, abruptly acute at the apex, more tapering at 

 the base, glabrous, the stipe very short. 



Type locality: Between Las Flechas and La Rastra, Sinaloa. 

 Distribution: Known only from the type locality. 



12. Brongniartia lunata Rose, Contr. U. S. Nat. 

 Herb. 5: 194. 1899. 



A low shrub; young branches slender, short-villous with spreading hairs; leaves 15-20 

 cm. long; stipules broadly semicordate, somewhat lunate, acute at the apex; petiole 3-5 cm. 

 long, as well as the rachis short-villous; leaflets 7—11, broadly oblong or oval, 4-5 cm. long, 

 2-3 cm. wide, rounded at the base, rounded to acutish and apiculate at the apex, short-strigose, 

 becoming glabrous above, sparingly appressed-silky and reticulate beneath; flowers mostly 



2 in each axil; pedicels 2.5-3 cm. long, glabrous; bractlets rudimentary; calyx glabrous, 15 

 mm. long, distinctly 2-lipped, sometimes only 4-lobed, the upper 2 lobes united three-fourths 

 their length, the lower 3 or 2 united one-half to two- thirds their length, all lance-ovate, acute; 

 corolla 25 mm. long, rose-colored; pod unknown. 



Type locality: East of Huasemote, Durango. 

 Distribution: Known only from the type locality. 



13. Brongniartia bracteolata M. Micheli, M£m. Soc. 

 Geneve 34: 249. 1903. 



A shrub, I m. high; young branches sparingly strigulose, soon glabrate; leaves 10-17 cm. 

 long; stipules lanceolate or narrowly ovate, acute, 8-10 mm. long; petiole 1-2 mm. long; leaflets 

 13-15, oval, subcoriaceous, 4-5 cm. long, 2-2.5 cm. wide, rounded at each end or subemarginate 

 at the apex, sparingly strigose-puberulent on both sides, soon glabrate and shining above, 

 paler beneath, reticulate; petiolules 2 mm. long; flowers axillary, 1 or 2 in each axil; pedicels 

 about 2 cm. long; bractlets broadly ovate, subcordate at the base, strigulose, rather persistent; 

 calyx strigulose, 1.5 cm. long, the lobes lanceolate, acute, equaling the tube; corolla blood-red, 

 with a greenish blotch at the base; banner orbicular, 2-2.5 cm. long, short-clawed; wings and 

 keel-petals scarcely shorter, the former with a rounded basal auricle, narrower than the keel- 

 petals; pod glabrous, 7-8 cm. long, 2 cm. broad, 6-7-seeded; seeds about 1 cm. long, 6 mm. wide. 



Type locality: Sierra Madre, Guerrero (or Michoacan?). 

 Distribution: Known only from the type locality. 

 Illustration: Mem. Soc. Geneve 34: pi. 2. 



