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wide-spreading hairs. Lower leaves elliptic to orbicular, mucron- 
ate at the obtuse to rounded apex, rounded to cuneate at base, 
strongly reticulate, thinnish, spreading-pilosulous above and 
(chiefly along veins) beneath, 5-13 mm. long, 3-12 mm. wide, on 
petioles 1 mm. long; middle and upper similar but gradually pass- 
ing to oblong or lance-oblong, acute at each end, the uppermost 
bractlike, much reduced. Racemes contra-axial, strongly geniculate, 
2-8-flowered, pubescent like the stem, 1-3.5 em. long. Flowers 5 
mm. long, their pedicels spreading-pilose, 1-2 mm. long. Upper 
sepal persistent, ovate, acute, spreading-pilosulous and -ciliate, 
narrow-margined, 3-3.2 mm. long; lower similar, 2 mm. long. 
Wings oblong-obovate, barely retuse at the rounded apex, cuneate 
at the oblique base, spreading-pilosulous, 4.8-5 mm. long, 2.3 mm. 
wide. Keel 4.8 mm. long, its porrect beak 0.6 mm. long. Upper 
petals oblong, entire, slightly oblique at apex, 4.4 mm. long. Cap- 
sule oblong, emarginulate, scarcely stipitate, TS 
striate, 4.8 mm. long, 2.4 mm. wide. Seed silky-pilose, 3.2-3.5 
long. Aril 1.8 mm. deep, entirely corneous; umbo 0.4 mm. inc. 
with indistinct appressed dorsal and oblong entire appressed (1.4 
mm. long) lateral lobes. — Gray! Pl. Lindh. ii. (Bost. Journ. Nat. 
Hist. vii.) 150 (1850); Pl. Wright. i. 39 (1852); Chod. Monog. ii. 
107. t. 18. f. 10-12 (1893); Rob. in Gray, Syn. Fl. i. pt. 1. 451 
-(1897). — Nuevo Leon: Monterey, Eaton & Edwards 53 Ea 
Also Texas: Lindheimer III. 333 p. p. (TYPE cotu.: BG); Li 
heimer IV. 333 p. p. (KX); Wright 73 (KK), 102 (BGK), 1349 ede. 
Reverchon 63 (G); Groth 153 (G); Havard 100 (G); E. Hall 96 
(K); Mexican Boundary Survey under Emory 190 p.p. (K).— 
Ie. 50. 
93. P. blepharotropis, sp. nov. Basis. . . . Caules fruticulosi 
ramosi verosim. procumbentes virides vix glaucescentes incurvo- 
puberuli 1.7-2.8 dm. longi. Folia ima lanceolata vel obovata 4-7 
mm. longa 1-1.3 mm. lata; media et superiora linearia utroque 
acuminata mucronulata paullum reticulata incurvo-puberula 9-16 
mm. longa 1-2 mm. lata, in petiolis 0.6 mm. longis. Racemi (cum 
bene evoluti) valde geniculati 8-15-nodati 1.5-3 cm. longi, inter- 
dum solummodo (ut videtur) 4—8-nodati. Flores pallidi 5.5 mm. 
longi. Sepalum superius ovatum acuminatum incurvo-puberulum 
et ciliolatum 2.8 mm. longum, inferiora similia angustiora obtusius- 
cula 2.4 mm. longa. Alae oblique obovatae basi cuneatae apice 
