414. 
MEXICO.— SUPPLEMENT. 
iLeguminoscR. 
2. C.hupleurifolia; leviter pubescenti-pilosa,caule angulato subulate dichotome ramoso, 
foliis brevissime petiolatis ovato-ellipticis utrinque obtusis (lineari-lanceolatisque acutis) 
mucronatis, floribus subgeminis pedunculatis prope basin ramorum, bracteis subjunctis 
oppositis stipuliforraibus decurrentibus apice hastato-acuminatis. Schlecht. in Linncea, 5. 
p. 575. Hook. Ic. PL t. 382. — /3. foliis superioribus lineari-lanceolatis acutis. — y. foliis 
omnibus lineari-lanceolatis acutis. 
Hab. /3. and y. San Bias to Tepic. — Our plants so far accord with the description of Schlechtendal of his 
C. bupleurifolia, 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 leones Plantarum above 
quoted, from a specimen from Xalapa. In a subsequent volume of the Linnoea, Schlechtendal observes (v. 
12. p. 279.) “haec nova species valde nobis est suspecta, serius enim accepta exemplaria, praesertim prope 
Chiconquiaco lecta, foliis angustatis stipulisque minus prosilientibus, tantopere ab ilia sagittalis accedunt ut 
difficile et artificialiter quasi, magnitudine, colore intensiore paginae 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. Tepicana; 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. Caulis erectiusculus, spithammus et ultra, gracilis, dichotome ramosus, 
ramis angulatis canescenti. pilosis, pilis brevibus appressis. Folia petiolata (petiolo gracili longitudine circiter 
follorum) trifoliolata : foliolis brevissime petiolulatis, obovatis, cuneatis, obtusissimis non raro retusis cum 
mucronulo, pilis brevibus appressis pubescentibus. Stipulce valde minutm, subulatse, patentes. Pedunculi 
folio oppositi, graciles, vix folia superantes, l-3-flori. Flores parvi, lutei, pedicellati, pedicellis minute brac- 
teatis. Cahjx appresso-pilosus. Vexillum calyce duplo longius, carina paulo brevius. 
AVe 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. Hook, et Arn. supra, p. 285. 
Hab. Acapulco. — Fruit elliptico-cylindrical, obtuse, with a rather deep furrow on the upper suture, veiy 
indistinctly puberulous, 
5. C, Acapulcencis ; fruticosa dichotoma, ramis teretibus junioribus angulatis pubes- 
centibus, foliis petiolatis trifoliolatis, foliolis anguste lanceolatis intermedio subduplo 
longiore, stipulis minutis erectis subulatis deciduis, racemis multifloris 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 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 
