414 MEXICO.— SUPPLEMENT. [Leguminosa. 



2. Q.bupleurifolia ; leviter pubescenti-pilosa,caule angulato subulato dichotome ramose, 

 foliis brevissime petiolatis ovato-ellipticis utrinque obtusis (lineari-lanceolatisque acutis) 

 mucronatis, floribus subgeminis pedunculatis prope basin ramorum, bracteis subjunctis 

 oppositis stipuliformibus decurrentibus apice hastato-acuminatis. Schlecht. in Linnoea, 5. 

 p. 575. Hook. Ic. PL t. 382. — (3. foliis superioribus lineari-lanceolatis acutis. — y. foliis 

 omnibus lineari-lanceolatis acutis. 



Hae. /3. and y. San Bias to Tepic. — Our plants so far accord with the description of Schlechtendal of his 

 C. bupleuri folia, that we have little hesitation in considering- them the same. What we take for the type of 

 the species, as characterized by the learned author, has been lately figured in the Icones Plantarum above 

 quoted, from a specimen from Xalapa. In a subsequent volume of the Linnaa, Schlechtendal observes (v. 

 12. p. 279.) " hsec nova species valde nobis est suspecta, serius enirn accepta exemplaria, prassertim prope 

 Chiconquiaco lecta, foliis angustatis stipulisque minus prosilientibus, tantopere ab ilia sagittalis accedunt ut 

 difficile et artificialiter quasi, magnitudine, colore intensiore pagince superioris, et glauco inferioris possint dis- 

 tingui." Our specimens certainly approach the forms now noticed, and even in our small collection we dis- 

 tinguish two varieties, as above mentioned. 



3. C. Tepicanci; annua parva dichotoma adpresso-pubescens, foliis sublonge petiolatis, 

 trifoliolatis, foliolis obovato-cuneatis obtusissimis, stipulis minutis subulatis patentibus, 

 pedunculo folio opposito et eo vix longiore 1-3-floro, carina vexillum superante, legu- 

 minibus oblique ellipticis puberulis. 



Hab. Tepic. — Radix annua, parva. Cavlis ereetiusculus, spithama?us et ultra, gracilis, dichotome ramosus, 

 ramis angulatis canescenti-pilosis, pilis brcvibus appressis. Folia petiolata (petiolo gracili longitudine circiter 

 foliorum) trifoliolata : foliolis brevissime petiolulatis, obovatis, cuneatis, obtusissimis non raro retusis cum 

 mucronulo, pilis brevibus appressis pubescenlibus. Stipulce valde minuta?, subulatae, patentes. Pedunculi 

 folio oppositi, graciles, vix folia superantes, 1-3-flori. Flores parvi, lutei, pedicellati, pedicellis minute brac- 

 teatis. Calyx appresso-pilosus. Vexillum calyce duplo longius, carina paulo brevius. 



We cannot refer this small and inelegant Crotalaria to any described species. We possess indeed what 

 appears to us to be the same from the island of St Vincent. It approaches the C. dichotoma of Graham in 

 Bot. Mag. t. 2714, but that is a fruticose species with lanceolate acute leaflets, and much larger flowers : 

 still the two plants belong to the same natural group of this extensive genus. 



4. C. longirostrata, Hooh. et Am. supra, p. 285. 



Hab. Acapulco. — Fruit elliptico-cylindrical, obtuse, with a rather deep furrow on the upper suture, very 

 indistinctly puberulous. 



5. C. Acapulcencis ; fruticosa dicbotoma, ramis teretibus junioribus angulatis pubes- 

 centibus, foliis petiolatis trifoliolatis, foliolis anguste lanceolatis intermedio subduplo 

 longiore, stipulis minutis erectis subulatis deciduis, racemis multifioris oppositifoliis folio 

 multo longioribus, vexillo carinam margine ciliatam superante, legumine cylindraceo. 



Hab. Acapulco. — Our specimens are a foot or more long, and appear to be only small branches of the 

 plant. The leaves, except in a very young state, are destitute of pubescence: the middle leaflets H or 2 

 inches long, about twice the length of the lateral ones, all of them narrow, lanceolate, and very acute. The 

 racemes are much longer than the leaves and elongate in fruit very remarkably, so that in that state they are 



