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calyx pubescent, the tube 2 mm. long and broad, the teeth deltoid; corolla about S mm. long, 

 ochroleucous, tinged with reddish, the petals subequal; banner suborbicular, emarginate; pod 

 about 6 cm. long, torulose, glabrous, 3-5-seeded. 



Type locality: Banos del Carrizal, Veracruz. 

 Distribution: Known only from the type locality. 



7. Coursetia planipetiolata M. Micheli, Mem. Soc. 

 Geneve 34: 253. 1903. 



A shrub, 2 m. high; branches sparingly pubescent when young, soon glabrate, the bark 

 light-yellow; stipules subulate, 3 mm. long; leaves 6-15 cm. long, odd-pinnate; rachis puberu- 

 lent, winged; leaflets 5-7, ovate or elliptic, rounded or obtuse at each end, mucronate, 2-5.5 

 cm. long, 1-2.5 cm. broad, the petiolules 2 mm. long; racemes axillary or terminal, lax, 8-12- 

 flowered, 1-1.5 dm. long, longer than the subtending leaves; peduncle and pedicels glandular- 

 pubescent; pedicels about 1 cm. long; calyx densely glandular, the tube 4 mm. long and broad, 

 the teeth deltoid, 4 mm. long; corolla light rose-colored, 15-18 mm. long; petals nearly equal, 

 the wings slightly shorter than the rest ; banner suborbicular, retuse ; blades of the wings broadly 

 oblong, with a large round basal auricle; those of the keel-petals semiorbicular, acutish, with a 

 rather indistinct rounded basal auricle; style strongly bent below; pod linear, 7-12 cm. long, 

 glandular-puberulent, torulose, 9-12-seeded. 



Type locality: San Luis River, Guerrero or Michoacin. 

 Distribution: Type locality and in Oaxaca. 

 Illustrations: Mem. Soc. Geneve 34: pi. 5. 



8. Coursetia mollis Rob. & Greenm. Proc. Am. Acad. 29: 384. 

 1894. 



A shrub, 1-2 m. high, branches glandular-tomentose, in age glabrate, the bark straw- 

 eolored or gray, striate; stipules subulate, spinescent, erect, 5 mm. long; leaves 5-15 cm. long, 

 odd-pinnate; rachis glandular and villous; leaflets 15-21, elliptic-oblong, rounded at each end, 

 grayish-pilose on both sides, 15-25 cm. long, 7-10 mm. wide; racemes 4—10 cm. long; pedicels 

 about 6 mm. long; peduncle and pedicels pilose and glandular; calyx pilose, the tube 3 mm. 

 long, the teeth 5 mm. long, deltoid-lanceolate; corolla 14-18 mm. long, rose-purple; banner 

 orbicular; wings obliquely obovate, with a minute basal auricle; blades of the wing-petals 

 lunate, long-acuminate at the apex, with a rounded basal auricle; pod 5-7 cm. long, 5 mm. 

 wide, hirsute and glandular, 7-9-seeded. 



Type locality: Barranca of Beltran. 

 Distribution: Sinaloa to Guerrero. 



9. Coursetia madrensis M. Mieheli, Mem. Soe. Geneve 

 34: 253. 1903. 



A shrub, 3 m. high; branches canescent when young, soon glabrate, the bark gray; stipules 

 subulate, 3 mm. long; leaves 5-10 cm. long, odd-pmnate; rachis canescent, sulcate above; 

 leaflets 17-21, ovate or oval, mucronate, rounded or obtuse at each end, strigulose above, 

 densely sericeous beneath, 1-2 cm., 6-10 mm. wide, the petiolules 1 mm. long; stipels subulate 

 1 mm. long; racemes short, 3-10-flowered; bracts linear-subulate; pedicels 1.5-2 cm. long, 

 glandular-pubescent; calyx glandular-pubescent, the tube 3-4 mm. long and fully as wide, the 

 teeth fully equaling the tube, deltoid, subulate-tipped; corolla blood-red, with a yellow or 

 orange spot; banner broadly oval, acutish, about 2 cm. long, with a pair of callosities above the 

 base; wings shorter thajj the banner, the blades oblong, with a rounded basal auricle; keel- 

 petals equaling the banner, semi-ovate, long acuminate, with a rounded basal auricle; pod 

 torulose, tomentose, 15-20-seeded. 



