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the upper 16 mm., the lower 20 mm. long; corolla purple or red, 20-24 mm. long; banner 



obovate, slightly longer than the other petals; ovary and pod glabrous; mature pod unknown. 



Type locality: Canjob, Chiapas. 

 Distribution, Chiapas. 



4. Harpalyce Loeseneriana Taubert; Loesener, Bull. Herb. 

 Boiss. 3:612. 1895. 



Harpalyce ferruginea Brand. Zoe. 5: 234. 1906. 



A shrub; young branches densely fetiuginous-pubescent, almost velutinous, later more 

 canescent and in age glabrate; bark of the old branches with white lenticels; leaves 5-12 cm. 

 long; petiole 1-4 cm. long, as well as the rachis densely ferruginous; leaflets 5-9, 

 elliptic or oblong, obtuse and mucronate or acutish at the apex, obtuse at the base, 2-5 cm. 

 long, 1-2 cm. wide, chartaceous, short- villous, or in age almost glabrous above, densely 

 ferruginous-villous, sub-velutinous, and with orange glands beneath, the midrib very promi- 

 nent beneath and the lateral veins less so, panicles and calyces densely ferruginous; upper lip 

 of the calyx 11-15 mm., the lower 16-22 mm. long, both narrowly lanceolate and obtuse; 

 corolla purple; banner obovate, 18-30 mm. long, 10-18 mm. wide; wings falcately oblanceolate, 

 12-25 mm. long, with a lanceolate recurved basal auricle; keel-petals similar but more linear, 

 more strongly incurved, the basal auricle lanceolate; pod oblong, thin, leathery, 6-8 cm. 

 long, 2-2.5 cm. wide, glabrous, 6-9-seeded. 



Type locality: Near Mitla, district of Tlacolula, Oaxaca. 



Distribution: Oaxaca and Puebla. 



5. Harpalyce hidalgensis Taubert; Loesener, Bull. Herb. 

 Boiss. 3:613. 1895. 



A shrub; branches when young cinereous-puberulent or somewhat ferruginous with 

 appressed short hairs, in age glabrous, and the yellowish bark with white lenticels; stipules 

 setaceous, 3 mm. long, caducous; leaves 8-15 cm. long; petiole 1.5-3 cm. long, as well as the 

 rachis ferruginous; leaflets 11-15, elliptic, obtuse at both ends, 2-5 cm. long, 1-2 cm. wide, 

 almost glabrous and dull above, pale, puberulent, and with yellow glands, and on the ribs 

 somewhat ferruginous beneath; panicles and calyces ferruginous- villosulous; calyx-lips sub- 

 equal, about 11 mm. long; corolla purplish; banner obovate, about 12 mm. long; wings 

 oblanceolate, falcate, with a basal auricle; keel strongly incurved, 12 mm. long; ovary glabrous; 

 fruit unknown. 



Type locality: Near Huejutla, Hidalgo. 

 Distribution: Hidalgo. 



6. Harpalyce rupicola Donn. Smith, Bot. Gaz. 13: 26. 1888. 



A shrub; branches ferruginous-pubescent; leaves 10-12 cm. long; petiole 1-2 cm. long, 

 as well as the rachis ferruginous-pubescent; leaflets 1 1-15, oblong, retuse at the apex, rounded 

 at the base, 2-2.5 cm. long, 1 cm. broad, puberulent above, with golden glands beneath, 

 soon glabrate, with re volute margins; racemes or panicles 12-18-flowered, ferruginous; calyx 

 about 1 cm. long, tomentose; petals purple; banner IS mm. long, 14 mm. wide, round-obovate, 

 longer than the other petals; wings oblanceolate, 5 mm. wide; keel-petals somewhat shorter; 

 anthers plternately larger and smaller; ovary linear, 6-7-ovuled. 



Type locality: Santa Rosa, Baja Verapaz, Guatemala. 



Distribution:- Known only from the type locality. 



7. Harpalyce arborescens A. Gray, Proc. Am. Acad. 5: 178. 1861. 



Brongniarlia relusa Benth.; Hemsl. Diag. PI. Nov. 8. 1878. 

 Harpalyce retusa Rose, Contr. U. S. Nat. Herb. 8: 43. 1903. 



A shiub or small tree; branches moie or less ferruginous or grayish short-villous, in age 

 becoming glabrate, gray, with white lenticels; leaves 9-15 cm. long; petioles 1.5-3 cm. long, 

 as well as the rachis yellowish or light ferruginous-villous; leaflets 7-11, oval or broadly 



