178 Plante Lindheimeriane. 
Gregg has gathered fruiting specimens of the same plant in 
the high lands near Saltillo, Mexico, in 1848.) — Dr. Engel- 
mann states that it is peculiar to the limestone districts of 
Middle 'Texas. 4 
378. SopHora (Srypunovopium) arrinis, Torr. & Gray, 
Fl. 1. p. 390. Margin of Cotton-wood groves along the Rio 
Colorado, above Bastrop: August (in fruit); also near New 
Braunfels and San Antonio, common; April, in flower. — 
‘¢ A small tree, 10 to 12 feet high, the trunk 4 to 8 inches in 
diameter, rarely a small shrub; the annual shoots with green 
bark, fragile; the wood very heavy.” Leaflets less than an 
inch long, nearly of the same hue both sides, retuse or very 
obtuse. No. 6Q1 is the same plant, from New Braunfels. 
379. SopHora (DermaTorHYLium) speciosa, Benth. Mss. 
Dermatophyllum speciosum, Scheele in Linnea, 21. p. 459. 
Sophora sempervirens, Engelm. Mss. ‘‘On the western part 
of Matagorda Bay, where it forms groves. Also sparsely on 
rocky hills, margins of Cedar woods along the Guadaloupe, 
near New Braunfels, &c. Flowers in February. <A small 
tree, about 30 feet high; the wood yellow, hard, and heavy, 
called lignum-vite. Flowers, showy, blue, sweet-scented, ex- 
haling nearly the fragrance of violets. The tree forms small 
groves on the shores of Matagorda Bay, where it is the only 
fire-wood. ‘The wood dyes yellow.” Also gathered by Ber- 
landier, and by Mr. Wright. The large, woody pods, two 
to four inches long, are sometimes constricted between the 
seeds, sometimes barely torose. Mr. Bentham remarks, in 
Herb. Torr., that, “at present Dermatophyllum can only be 
admitted as a section to include S. speciosa, S. secundiflora, 
and an intermediate species collected by Dr. Gregg in North- 
ern Mexico, until the pods of all the genus are better known.” 
— No. (602) is the same species from New Braunfels, flow- 
ering in March, either a shrub or a small tree. 
(603.) Horrmanseceia Jamesur, Torr. & Gray, Fl. 1. p. 
393; Gray, Pl. Fendl. p. 38. Stony soil on the Liano. 
October; the second flowering, after the burning of the 
