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hairs; petioles 1 to 3°™ long, glabrous; petiolules of lateral leaflets 1 to 
3™™ long, of terminal leaflets 8 to 15™™ long, pubescent; stipules per- 
sistent, small, long-acuminate, glabrous: inflorescence in a simple terminal 
or lateral axillary raceme; flowers purple, on filiform pedicels; floral bracts 
deciduous, ovate, acuminate, somewhat puberulent: calyx unequally 
5-toothed, pubescent: loment 3 to 4, rarely 5-jointed, almost sessile, the 
joints covered with uncinate pubescence. 
Collected by Mr. C. G. Pringle about Trinidad Iron Works, Hidalgo, Mexico, 
in pine woods, altitude 1650™, September 15, 1904 (no. 8890). 
Type in U. S. National Herbarium, no. 461381. 
This species is nearest M. orizabana (Hemsl.) Kuntze, but is easily dis- 
tinguished from that species by its obtuse, oval leaves, prostrate habit, and loment 
more deeply constricted above. 
Meibomia xylopodia (Greenman) Rose & Painter.—Desmodium xylo- 
podium Greenman, Proc. Am. Acad. 39:80. 1903. 
Meibomia (CHALARIUM) pallida Rose & Painter, sp. nov.—Low, 
shrubby, 20 to 30° high: leaves all unifoliolate, the lowest orbicular or 
broadly oval, obtuse, upper oblong, mucronulate, all pale green, obtuse 
at base, above covered with short uncinate pubescence, less so and 
reticulate-veined beneath, midrib prominent, pubescent; petioles pubes- 
cent, 2 to 5™™ long; stipules deciduous, ovate-acuminate, pubescent and 
with prominent veins; stipels subulate, pubescent, 1™™ or less long: inflo- 
rescence in a terminal simple raceme which is densely pubescent; flowers 
purple; pedicels when fully matured 5 to 6™™ long, pubescent; bracts 
deciduous, lancedlate-ovate, long-acuminate, ribbed: calyx pubescent, the 
teeth unequal: Ovary appearing spirally twisted, pubescent; loment about 
5-jointed, the joints inflated, glabrous, reticulate-veined. 
Collected by Mr. E. W. Nelson at Huilotepec, Oaxaca, Mexico, altitude 25™, 
ay 4 to 11, 1895 (no. 2587). 
Type in U. S. National Herbarium, no. 40034. 
The affinity of this species is with M. xylopodia (Greenman) Rose & Painter, 
but it differs in the glabrous loments and the paler green leaves. 
EXPLANATION or Prater V: a, plant (x 4%); 6, floral bracts (x7); ¢ flower 
(X5); d, fruit (x24). 
Meibomia (CHaLartum) rubricaulis Rose & Painter, sp. nov.—Low 
shrub, twigs reddish-brown, older ones with striate and whitish bark: 
leaves small, trifoliolate, petiolate: petioles 5 to 12™™ long, covered with 
short pilose hairs; terminal leaflets obovate, 8 to 12™™ long, 6 to 10™™ 
Toad, the lateral leaflets mostly oval, at times somewhat obovate, 
rounded, mucronulate at apex and rounded at base, upper surface minutely 
