1899] NORTH AMERICAN SPECIES OF TEPHROSIA 197 
tattow, 5 to 6.2°" long, soon divaricate.— Nov. Gen. & Spec. 
§:460. fl. 577; Gray, Pl. Wright. 2: 36; Torr. Bot. Mex. Bound. 
s1. Cracca leucantha Kuntze, 1. c.; Vail, 1. c.—Mountainous 
regions in S. Arizona, Rothrock, Lemmon, Pringle. (Mex. where 
frst collected by Humboldt & Bonpland. ) 
++ ++ Petioles 4 to 17™™ long: leaflets obovate: Florida. 
‘I, Rugelii SHurrtewortH in herb. Stems several, decum- 
tent or suberect from a lignescent stock, finely appressed-pubes- 
cent with bronze-colored hairs: leaves 3-11-foliolate ; stipules 
persistent, 4 to 6™™ long; leaflets obovate, retuse, mucronulate, 
fnely appressed-pubescent and yellowish-green above, decidedly 
jalet, cinereous and very veiny beneath, 8 to 17™™ long, half 
* broad : flowers borne chiefly in pairs in the upper axils or 
‘oming a subcapitate raceme at the summit of the stem: calyx 
avny-villous, 5™™ long, its narrow teeth subequal: petals prob- 
” Purple: pods somewhat falcate, 3.8™ long, 5" broad, 
‘omentulose. —In pine woods on the Manatee river, S.W. Florida, 
, Pi, no. 156, June 1845. Type in herb. Gray. A character- 
fet nt teeording to our present knowledge, thoroughly dis- 
i ony with the habit of 7. chrysophylla, from which it differs 
ce °nopodial stem and axillary flowers, as well as in the 
ere pubescence upon the upper surface of the leaves. 
. rh REIneRrA BS G. 251, in part. Stem sympodial, the 
3 rae at one or more nodes terminating in a raceme which 
Sera development of an axillary bud at its base becomes 
PPosite oe Some of the racemes thus appear to arise 
: Ped in - hag (The sympodial structure is tardily devel- 
a: " Purpurea, which during its first season sometimes 
“Meret any a terminal raceme. This species, however, may 
-y alllly distinoui 
its er guished from those of the preceding section by 
ch M ow ers, which are only 6 to 8.5™™ long. )—Reimerta 
meth. Suppl. 44. 
* 
+ Leaflets ( Flowers large: petals 1 to 1.7°™ long. 
with rare €xceptions) exceeding the short petioles. 
