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tube 2 mm. long, the upper two teeth ovate, united to near the apex, the lower three lanceolate, 

 1 .5 mm. long; corolla light greenish-yellow, nearly 1 cm. long; petals subequal; pod ferruginous- 

 pubescent, 6-7 cm. long, 1.5 cm. wide. 



Type locality: Carrizal, Veracruz. 

 Distribution: Known only from the type locality. 



3. Lennea viridiflora Seem. Bot. Voy. Herald 107. 1852. 



A small tree, 3-5 m. high; branches ferruginous-hispidulous when young, becoming 

 glabrate and with grayish bark; stipules lance-subulate, erect, stiff, 2 mm. long; leaves 1-1.5 dm. 

 long; rachis somewhat ferruginous-hispidulous; leaflets 9-13, ovate or ovate-oblong, sometimes 

 somewhat acuminate, but the tip obtuse or retuse, shining above, pale beneath, sparingly 

 hirsutulous, reticulate, often sub-alternate; racemes short and rather dense, 2-3 cm. long, the 

 peduncle, bracts, and calyx ferruginous; bracts minute, ovate; pedicels 2 mm. long; calyx-tube 

 2 mm. long, the lobes deltoid, acute, corolla 8 mm. long, greenish or light-yellow; petals sub- 

 equal; banner suborbicular; blades of the other petals obliquely oblong-oblanceolate. 



Type locality: Santiago de Veraguas, Panama. 

 Distribution: Panama. 



22. WILLARDIA Rose, Contr. U. S. Nat. Herb. 1: 97. 1890. 



Small trees or shrubs. Leaves odd-pinnate, with petiolulate entire leaflets, deciduous 

 stipules and no stipels. Flowers in axillary racemes; bractlets absent. Calyx short-campanu- 

 late, fully as broad as long, truncate, with five minute equal teeth. Corolla lilac, white, or 

 ochroleucous, the banner and keel subequal, the wings somewhat shorter. Banner suborbi- 

 ci.lar, retuse at the apex, reflexed, short-clawed. Wings short-clawed, the blades oblong- 

 falcate, apparently without a basal auricle. Keel-petals lunate,, obtuse, united to near the 

 end, the claws equaling the calyx. Stamens monadelphous, the upper filament free at the 

 base, above united with the rest into a closed sheath. Anthers uniform. Ovary subsessile, 

 several-ovuled ; style incurved, glabrous; stigma small, capitate. Pod flat, oblong-lanceolate, 

 acute at each end, without partitions, 2.-valved. Seeds reniform, strongly compressed. 



Type species, Coursetia mexicana S. Wats. 



Leaves puberulent, or in age glabrous above; corolla 1 cm. long or less. 



Leaflets 11-21, only 8-15 mm. long; corolla 6-7 mm. long; fruit glabrous. 1. If', parvifiora. 



Leaflets 9-15, usually 2-3 cm. long; corolla 1-1.5 cm. long; fruit pubescent. 2. II'. mexicana. 

 Leaves finely velutinous above, silky-villous beneath; leaflets 11-21. usually 



1.5-3 cm. long; corolla nearly 2 cm. long. 3. II'. eriophylla. 



1. Willardia parvifiora Rose, Contr. U. S. Nat. Herb. 8: 313. 

 1905. 



A small shrub, 3-4 mm. high, much branched; branches densely puberulent when young; 

 stipules broadly ovate, 1 mm. long or less, caducous; leaves about 5 cm. long; rachis densely 

 short-pubescent, sulcate above; leaflets 11-21, oblong, 8-16 mm. long, rounded at the apex, 

 thickish with revolute margins, finely pubescent when young, in age glabrate above; racemes 

 appearing with or before the leaves, 4—5 cm. long; bracts ovate, reddish, very small; pedicels 

 2-4 cm. long; calyx pubescent, 2 mm. long, brownish, the lower three lobes broadly triangular, 

 the upper two rounded or obsolete; corolla 6-7 mm. long; banner orbicular, retuse; wings 

 obliquely obovate; keel-petals semi-orbicular, the claw equaling the calyx-tube; pod very flat, 

 lance-oblong, acute at each end, 3-6 cm. long, 1 cm. wide, glabrous; 1-3-seeded; seeds 10-12 

 mm. long, 6-7 mm. high, reniform, reddish-brown. 



Type locality: Yautepec, Morelos. 

 Distribution : Morelos. 



