TREES AND SHHUBS 103 



Closely related to the Leguminosae is a small family of 

 plants named after the single genus which composes it. Two 

 species of this genus ( Kramcria) occur in New Mexico. One 

 of them (K. glandulosa) is a low, diffuse undershrub, rarely 

 over 18 inches high, found on the driest and hottest of the 

 gravelly mesas in the southern part of the State. Its leaves 

 are very small and its stems slender, and most of the time it 

 appears to be completely dead. In the late spring or early 

 summer it usually blooms very profusely. The flowers are 

 small, hardly half an inch in diameter, and of a crimson color. 

 They are exceedingly sweet and pleasantly scented, and well 

 worth cultivation as a low shrub for borders or in massed beds. 

 Our experience in attempting to transplant them has not been 

 satisfactory; probably because they were put into too tight a 

 soil. It is likely that they can be grown from the seed, since 

 they are very abundant in their ordinary habitat and produce 

 seed readily, while they have no other means of distributing 

 themselves. 



KRAMERIACEAE. 



Low herbaceous or woody perennials, with prostrate or 

 widely spreading stems and small silky pubescent leaves; leaves 

 alternate, exstipulate, entire; flowers perfect, crimson, irregular; 

 calyx of 4 or 5 unequal petaloid sepals, deciduous; coro'la or 4 or 5 

 petals, shorter than the sepals, irregular, the posterior one c'awed r 

 sometimes united, the anterior thick, sessile; stamens 3 or 4, the 

 filaments united at the base; pistil simple; fruit an indehiscent 

 spiny, globose, 1 -seeded pod. 

 A single shrubby species. r a\ gjandulosa- 



