\li:ii:i [TONS FROM THE NATIONAL BBBBARIUM. 



mucronate, slightly pubescent above, appreesed-pubesceut beneath; peduncles about 

 as long as the leaves, 2 or 3-flowered; pods \ ery short, i < » t ■ » L2 mm. long, mucronate. 



Typ< 9 N tional Herbarium no. 280167, collected by C. G. Prinj?le near Carneroe 

 Coahuila, 1889 do. 2783 ; also by Dr. I'.. Palmer in the Sierra Madre sooth of 

 Saltillo, 1880 I oo. 281 . 



This species has been confused with C. vogt liana, but it has the pods much Bhorter, 

 the leaflets fewer, etc. 



Cassia durang-ensis Rose, Bp. nov. 



Stems apparently single and erect, 20 to (0 cm. high, velvety pubescent; leaflets I 

 pair, broadly oblong to nearly orbicular, 3 to 5 cm. long, with dense soft pubescence 

 mi both sides of a decidedly yellowish cast, especially when young; peduncles longer 

 than the leaves, usually 3 to 5-flowered; pods strict, 3 to 3.5 cm. long; Beeds g 



Type t . 8. National Herbarium do. -".111717, collected by Dr. E. Palmer near 

 Durango in 1896 (no. 271); also Dear the same place by E. W. Nelson in 1898 

 4695 . 



Perhaps Dearest C. bauhinioides Gray, bu1 of Bimple and more erect habit with 

 larger and much broader leaflets, more uprighl pods, etc. 



Cassia goldmani Rose, sp. dov. 



Shrub or tree -4 to <> meters high; leaves clustered Dear the ends of stunted 

 branches or scattered along the vigorous branches; rachis slightly pubescent; I eat lets 

 r> to 12 pairs, rather thick, the venation somewhal indistinct, glabrous or nearly bo, 

 the margins never ciliate, pale on both sides, perhaps glaucous, 12 to 16 mm, long, 

 broadest near the tip, oblique at base, rounded at apex, usually with a short mucro; 

 pods N to l" cm. long, somewhat glaucous, 2 cm. or more broad, the margins winged. 



Type U. S. National Herbarium do. 565323, collected by Nelson and Goldman about 

 5 miles southwest of El Potrero, Lower California, October 31, L905 (no. 7238 



Resembling C. polyanthaoi Central Mexico, but having somewhat different leaf- 

 lets, less pubescence od branches and leaflet-, etc. 



HOFFMANSEGGIA: A NEW SPECIES AND A NEW NAME. 



Hoffmanseggia arida Rose, Bp. dov. Plate XXIX. 



stems low, diffuse, usually herbaceous but sometimes woody at base, glabrous 



except some stipitate glands; stipule- ovate, acute; petioles slender, bearing a few 

 stipitate glands; pinnae 3 to 6 pairs; leaflets 4 to 8 pairs, oblong, :\ to 4 mm. long, 

 glabrous except a gland in the retuse apex; inflorescence an erect or ascending 

 raceme. 10 to 20 cm. long including the peduncle; at first very dense, bearing many 

 stipitate glands; bracts subtending the flowers ovate, acuminate, ciliate; calyx deeply 

 5-parted, the lobes somewhat unequal, ciliate; flowers yellow tinged with red; pods 

 narrow lv oblong, 3 to 4 cm. long, acute, glabrous except for the numerous stipitate 

 -.Hands. 



Common on the deserts of Quere'taro. 



Type!'.-. National Herbarium do. 453109, collected by J. X. Rose and Joe. II. 

 Painter between San Juan del Rio and Cadereyta, August 19, L905 (no. 9619); also 

 Dear Higuerillas, August 23, 1903 (no. 9770). 



This species is near //. stricta Benth., but the inflorescence and pods lack the soft 

 pubescence on the racemes and pods. 



Explanation of Plate XXIX.— Fig. a, Bower; b, Inflorescence: c, flower; d, corolla laid open; > , 

 calyx laid open; /, petal; g, Btamen; h, fruit; i, Beed. Figs, a, f>. and //. natural Biae; c, '/. > ./, g, and i, 

 scale 2. 



Hoffmanseg-gia watsoni (Fisher Ro 



//. gracili88. Wats. Proc Am. Acad. 17: 347. L882, aot Hook. & Am. i- 

 Oaesalpinia watsoni Fisher, Bot. Gaz. 18: L22. 1893. 



