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mm. long, the lobes lanee-subulate. acuminate, 3 mm. long, the lowest only slightly longer; 

 corolla 7 mm. long, ochroleucous, the banner veined with brownish-purple; pod 5 cm. long, 

 3 mm. wide, puberulent. 



Type locality: (Not given, but by inference) hills between the Barbocomori [Arizona] and 

 Santa Cruz, Sonora. 



Distribution: Southern Arizona, northern Sonora, Chihuahua, and Durango. 



16. Benthamantha pumila Rose, Contr. U. S. Nat. 

 Herb. 10: 99. 1906. 



A perennial, with woody fusiform roots, the stem woody only at the branched base; 

 branches 1-2 dm. high, purplish, sparingly silky, decumbent or ascending; stipules subulate, 

 3 mm. long; leaves 5-8 cm. long; stipels subulate. 1 mm. long; leaflets 11-15, oblong to oval, 

 1-2 cm. long, rounded at each end, mucronate, glabrous above, sparingly silky beneath; 

 racemes 3-9 cm. long, 3-6-flowered ; bracts subulate. 2-3 mm. long; calyx sparingly pilose, 

 the tube 1.5 mm. long, the lobes lanceolate, acuminate, 2 mm. long; corolla 6 mm. long, 

 yellowish, the banner partly purplish, with dark veins; pod 4-5 cm. long, 3.5 mm. broad, 

 glabrous or granuliferous, 12-15-seeded. 



Type locality: On the road between San Juan del Rio and Cadereyta, Queretaro. 

 Distribution: Queretaro to Puebla. 

 Illustration: Contr. U. S. Nat. Herb. 10: pi. 30. 



17. Benthamantha glandulosa Rose, Contr. U. S. 

 Nat. Herb. 10: 99. 1906. 



A perennial, woody only at the base; stem branched, spreading, sparingly pilose, 2-3 dm. 

 high; stipules subulate-setaceous, 2-3 mm. long; leaves 3-6 cm. long; rachis sparingly pilose; 

 stipels minute; leaflets 5-7, elliptic or obovate, sparingly short-pubescent on both sides, often 

 mottled along the veins, rounded and mucronate at apex; racemes 5-10 cm. long; peduncle 

 pilose and slightly glandular, 4-7-flowered ; bracts setaceous, 3 mm. long, caducous; calyx 

 pilose, the tube 1.5 mm. long, the lobes nearly 3 mm. long, lanceolate, acuminate; corolla 

 ochroleucous, about 8 mm. long; pod glabrous. 



Type locality: Chiapas. Santa Rosa, Guatemala. 

 Distribution: Guatemala. 



IS. Benthamantha tuberosa Brand. Univ. Calif. 

 Publ. Bot. 4:376. 1913. 



A perennial, woody at the branched base only, the roots bearing small fusiform tubers; 

 stems branched, diffuse, 1-2 dm. high, sparingly hairy; stipules subulate, 2-3 mm. long; 

 leaves 3-5 cm. long; stipels minute; rachis with a few minute hairs; leaflets 5-9, oblong-obovate, 

 1-2 cm. long, rounded at the apex, rounded to cuneate at the base finely strigose on both sides 

 or glabrate above; racemes 3-4 cm. long, 3-5-flowered; calyx sparingly strigose, the tube 

 1.5 mm. long, the lobes lance-subulate, 1.5 mm. long; corolla 6 mm. long, yellowish, the 

 banner tinged and veined with purple; pod 4 cm. long, 2.5 mm. wide, g'abrous, 16-seeded. 



Type locality: Bafios del Carrizal, Veracruz. 

 Distribution: Known only from the type locality. 



19. Benthamantha Greenmanii Britten & Baker f. 

 Field Mus. Publ. Bot. 2: 50. 1900. 



Cracca Greenmanii Millsp. Field Mus. Publ. Bot. 1: 299. 1896. 



A perennial, woody at the branched base, the roots bearing small fusiform tubers; stems 

 decumbent or spreading, 1-2 dm. high, finely strigose; stipules subulate, 2 mm. long; leaves 

 3-4 cm. long; rachis sparingly strigose; stipels minute; leaflets 3-5, obovate, obtuse to retuse 

 and mucronate at the apex, 1-2 cm. long, glabrous above, finely strigose beneath; racemes 5-7 



