ROSE MEXICAN AND CENTRAL AMERICAN PLANTS. 99 



VICIACEAE. 



THE MEXICAN AND CENTRAL AMERICAN SPECIES OF 

 BENTHAMANTHA. 



The name Cracca of Be nth am being a homonym, the genua wsls 

 renamed Brittonamra l>v Otto Kuntze, I m t he afterwards took Up the 

 older name Benthamantha published by Alefeld in L862. This latter 

 course has been followed l>y Britten and Baker who published in the 

 Journal of Botany for January, L900, a lisl of all the known species. 

 I wish to make a few slight changes in this list, adding also two new 



species. 



Benthamantha edwardsii (A. Gray) Rose. 



Benthamantha grayi Alefeld, Bonplandia 10: 264. L862. 



Cracca edwardsii A. Gray, PI. Wright. 2: .">•">. 1853. 



Gray's variety glabella is certainly nol a form of />'. edwardsii, bul i- much closer to 



B. Si rici </. 



Benthamantha greenmanii (Millspaugh) Rose. 



Cracca greenmanii Millsp. Field Columb. Mus. Bot. 1: 299. pi. 18. 1896. 



Benthamantha bicolor (Micheli) Rose. 



Cracca bicolor Micheli, Bull. Serb. Boiss. 2: 444. pi. 11. L894. 

 Native of < ruatemala. 



Benthamantha micrantha (Micheli) Rose. 



Cracca micrantha Micheli, Prim. Fl. Costaric. 1: 189. 1891. 

 Native of < Guatemala. 



Benthamantha fruticosa Rose, sp. qov. 



Stem perhaps nearly a meter high, Bhrubby, the bark of the branches Bilky- 

 pubescenl thefirsl year, white the second year; Leaves pinnate; leaflets 3 to 5 pairs, 

 Bilky-pubescent, oblong, 8 to L2 nun. long, rounded al apex, mucronate; racemes 

 few-flowered, either shorter or longer than the leaves; bracts subtending the flowers 

 filiform, longer than the pedicels; calyx lobes linear, Bilky-pubescent; petals green- 

 ish yellow or the banner more or less purplish; pods linear, pubescent, 1 to 6 mm. 

 long, many-seeded. 



Type ('. S. National Herbarium no. 453587, collected by Rose and Painter in 

 Tomellfn Canon, Oaxaca, September, L905 (no. L0087); also al the same locality by 

 Rose and Hough, June 23, 1899 (no. 4665). 



Benthamantha glandulosa Rose, sp. now 



Branches herbaceous, spreading, pubescent; leaflets 5 to 7. oblong to obovate, 

 pubescenl on both surfaces, paler- beneath, rounded al apex, mucronate; stipules 

 linear; racemes much longer than the leaves, the rachis as well as the calyx bearing 

 silky and glandular hairs; ovary no1 at all pilose; >t> le hairy. 



Type U. s. National Herbarium no. 258413 (Smith's no. 3301 >. 



Collected by I Icy Me and Lux in Guatemala, Department of Santa Rosa, al ( hiapas 

 September, 1892, and Casillas, May, 1892. Both specimens were named ( 

 mollis by Micheli and distributed by ('apt. John Donnell Smith under the numbers 

 3745 and 3301 respectively. The species is very differenl from the South American 

 species, B. mollis. 



Benthamantha pumila Rose, sp. no\ . I'i.xii XNN. 



Low. more or less spreading, herbaceous, purplish, pubescent; leaflets 11 to 15, 



oblong, glabrous above even from the first, more or less appressed-pubescenl beneath; 



common petiole short; stipules linear-, elongated; fruiting raceme nearly twice as 



