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others linear or lance-linear, attenuate: corolla (in a dried state) deep 
purple, striated with green, 5-6 lines in length; standard obovate, 
entire at the base; ale oblong, strongly auricled upon the upper 
edge; keel but slightly curved: stamens alternately shorter, one 
free. — Collected on rocky hills about Tequila, 1 July, 18935 (no. 
4433). Fruiting specimens belonging to this species and collected 
in the same locality, 24 September, 1893, have leaflets 2-2} inches in 
length, and oblong acuminate pubescent legumes. 
ERIOSEMA MULTIFLORUM. A shrub, 3-4 feet high: stems brown- 
ish, furrowed-angulate, branched; branches covered with fine silky 
reflexed appressed pubescence: stipules ovate, acuminate, 2}-3 lines 
long, silky pubescent, tardily deciduous: leaves ascending, 3-foliate; 
common petioles 1-2 lines long; leaflets elliptic-oblong, obtuse, often 
apiculate, pale green, firm in texture, 3-nerved, finely pubescent above, 
appressed silky-villous beneath especially upon the prominent veins, 
1}-2 inches long, a third as broad; the edges revolute: racemes 
crowded at the ends of the branches, subsessile, densely flowered, 
14-23 inches long: bracts caducous ovate-rhombic, acuminate, silky, 
2-3 lines long, somewhat exceeding the ascending pedicels: calyx 
finely pubescent, campanulate, rounded at the base, gibbous upon the 
upper side, parted to the middle; the segments lanceolate, attenuate 5 
corolla yellow, 6 lines in length; standard with a slight bifornicate 
thickening just below the middle upon the inner surface; vexillar 
stamen free and with a bulbous thickening at the base: pods (scareely 
mature) broadly oblong, shortly and obliquely acuminate, 7-8 lines 19 
length, rufescent silky-villous, 2-seeded. — Collected on rocky hills 
near Tequila, 7 October, 1893 (no. 4548). This species stands near 
E. grandiflorum, Seem., but differs in its smaller, more numerous, and 
densely racemed flowers. 
Mimosa Trequitana, Wats. Excellent fruiting specimens found. 
by Mr. Pringle on hillsides near Tequila, 26 September, 1893 (no. 
4596), furnish the following characters not shown in the type: pods 
about 6 in a head, flat, thin, oblong, acute, about 3-seeded, 3 inch long, 
24 lines wide, covered with weak transversely spreading prickles. 
Beeonia patmaris, A.DC. Mr. Pringle has been fortunate 7” 
rediscovering this species and securing the hitherto unobserved fertile 
plant. His excellent specimens, kindly identified by Monsieur Autran 
with the type in Herb. Boissier, furnish the following supplementary 
_ characters: plants apparently dicecious, 2-4 feet high: lower leaves 
‘much larger than the upper (hitherto described), becoming 8 °F 
inches 
broad: petioles 2 inches in length: lobes of the fertile flowers — 
