Leguminosm.'] 



MEXICO.— SUPPLEMENT. 



415 



a span or more long-. Fruit 1^ to 2 inches long, cylindrical, hard, slightly downy, containing 20 or more 

 shining brown compressed seeds. Flowers yellow, as large as those of C. verrucosa. 



6. C. incana, L.—De Cand. Prodr. 2. p. 132. Ker, Bot. Reg. t. 377. Cav. 1c. 4. t. 

 322. 



Hab. Acapulco. — Our plant agrees well with the figure in Bot. Reg., of which the specimen was collated 

 with an authentic Linneean one. The leaves, however, differ considerably from those figured by Cavanilles, 

 and probably the plant itself is very variable. The carina has the lower edge fringed with white down. We 

 have what we consider the same species from St Vincent, but there the hairs on the underside of the leaves 

 are tawny, giving a golden, instead of a hoary hue to that part of the plant. The C. bracteata of Roxb., a 

 native of the East Indies, is very similar to this : but the leaflets are larger, quite glabrous on both sides, and 

 the petioles are shorter. 



1. Indigofera lespedezoides ; fruticosa, foliis pinnatis, foliolis trijugis subcuneato-lanceo- 

 latis apice rotundatis et mucronatis basi acutis utririque ramulisque strigulosis subtus 

 glaucescentibus, racemis multifloris breviter pedunculatis folia superantibus, leguminibus 

 reflexis compressiusculis rectis suboctospermis. J!. U.K. Nov. Gen. v. 6. p. 455. De 

 Cand. Prodr. 2. p. 226. 



Hab. Realejo. — Branches long, slender, much curved. Legumes closely reflexed, an inch and more long, 

 remarkably slender, coming to a very acute point. A second species of the genus is in this collection, but 

 too imperfect for description, it approaches the one just noticed; but the pods, if they be in a perfect state, 

 are not half the length of those of I. lespedezoides. It is from Acapulco. 



1. Cyanostremma cmruleum, Benth. mst. — Stenolobium casruleum, Benth. in Ann. Mus. 

 Find. 2. p. 125. et in Tayl. Ann. Nat. Hist. 2. p. 436. 



Hab. Realejo. — A very handsome climbing and twining plant, with large ternate leaves : the middle leaf- 

 let rhomboidal, on a rather long petiole ; the lateral ones on very short petiolules, half rhoinboidal, soft and 

 downy, the underside densely clothed with velvety tomentum, whitish, but with a slight golden tinge : all of 

 them very obtuse. Peduncles axillary, bearing long racemes, about equal in length with the leaves. Flowers 

 crowded and in clusters, so as to form an interrupted raceme, patent or reflexed. Calyx clothed with tawny 

 hairs, subtended by small bracteas covered with white hairs. Mr Bentham observes that this is a widely dif- 

 fused and apparently a common plant ; " besides the numerous specimens gathered by Pohl, Martius, Salz- 

 mann, and others in various parts of Brazil, it is found in the isle of St Vincent's, and in central America. It 

 is Cuming's n. 1097 from Panama." 



1. Galactia tuberosa; caule volubili refl^xo-piloso, foliolis elliptico-ovatis acutis rau- 

 cronulatis supra glabris subtus strigillosis, floribus axillaribus geminis subsessilibus et 

 foliis abortivis summis interrupte spicatis (radice tuberosa oblonga. DC.) — De Cand. Prodr. 

 2. p. 238. 



Hab. Between San Bias and Tepic.— This has much the habit of G. glabella, Mich. ;— but it differs in its 

 hairiness, in its much larger very acute leaflets, considerably smaller flowers and different inflorescence. The 

 flowers are scarcely half an inch in length. Immature legumes about an inch long, clothed with tawny velvety 

 hairs. De Candolle's description of his G. tuberosa is very brief and unsatisfactory ; yet, as far as it goes, 

 it corresponds with our plant, and is also a native of Mexico. 



