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2. C.bupleurifolia; leviter pubescenti-pilosa, caule angulato subulato dichotome ramoso,
foliis brevissime p e tiolatis ovato-ellipticis u trin q u e obtusis (lineari-lanceolatisque acutis)
mucronatis, floribus subgeminis ped u n cu la tis p rope basin ramorum, bracteis subjunctis
oppositis stipuliformibus d ecurrentibus apice h astato-acuminatis. Schlecht. in Linnæa, 5.
p . 575. Hook. Ic. P l. t. 3 82.—(3. foliis superioribus lineari-lanceolatis acutis.—y. foliis
omnibus lineari-lanceolatis acutis.
H a b . fi. and y. San Blas 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 Linnæa, Schlechtendal observes (v.
12. p. 279.) “ hæc nova speeies valde nobis est suspecta, serius enim accepta exemplaria, præsertim prope
Chiconquiaco lecta, foliis angustatis stipulisque minus prosilientibus, tantopere ab ilia sagittalis aceedunt ut
difficile et artificialiter quasi, magnitudine, colore intensiore paginæ superioris, et glauco inferioris possint distingui.”
Our specimens certainly approach the forms now noticed, and even in our small collection we distinguish
two varieties, as above mentioned.
3. C. Tepicana; a n n u a p a rv a dichotoma adpresso-pubescens, foliis sublonge petiolatis,
trifoliolatis, foliolis obovato-cuneatis obtusissimis, stipulis minutis subulatis patentibus,
pedúnculo folio opposito e t eo vix longiore ]-3-floro, carina vexillum superante, leguminibus
oblique ellipticis puberulis.
H a b . Tepic.—R a d ix annua, parva. Caulis erectiusculus, spithamæus et ultra, gracilis, dichotome ramosus,
ramis angulatis caneseenti.pilosis, pilis brevibus appressis. Folia petiolata (petiolo gracili longitudine circiter
foliorum) trifoliolata : foliolis brevissime petiolulatis, obovatis, cuneatis, obtusissimis non raro retusis cum
mucronulo, pilis brevibus appressis pubescentibus. Stipulæ valde minutæ, subulatoe, patentes. Pedunculi
folio oppositi, graciles, vix folia superantes, 1-3-flori. Flores parvi, lutei, pedicellati, pedicellis minute bracteatis.
Calyx appresso-pilosus. Vtxillum 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. I t 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 . 2 8 5 ..
H a b . Acapulco.—Fruit elliptico-cjlindrical, obtuse, with a rather deep furrow on the upper suture, very
indistinctly puberulous.
5. C. Acapulcencis; fruticosa dichotoma, ramis teretibus ju n io rib u s angulatis pubescentibus,
foliis petiolatis trifoliolatis, foliolis anguste lanceolatis intermedio subduplo
longiore, stipulis m inutis erectis subulatis deciduis, racemis multifloris oppositifoliis folio
multo longioribus, vexillo c arinam margine ciliatam su p eran te, legumine cylindraceo.
H a b . 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 IJ 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
a span or more long. Fruit I 4 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. Ic. 4. t.
322.
H a b . Acapulco. Our plant agrees well with the figure in Bot. Reg., of which the specimen was collated
with an authentic Linnæan 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 speeies 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. \nô.\goievalespedezoides; fruticosa, foiiis pinnatis, foliolis trijugis subcuneato-lanceo-
latis apice rotundatis e t mucronatis basi acutis u trin q u e ramulisque strigulosis subtus
glaucescentibus, racemis multifloris b reviter pedunculatis folia superantibus, leguminibus
reflexis compressiusculis rectis siiboctospermis. H .B .K . Nov. Gen. v. 6. p . 455. De
Cand. Prodr. 2. p . 226.
H a b . Realejo.— Branches long, slender, much curved. Legumes closely reflexed, an inch and more long,
remarkably slender, coming to a very acute point. A second speeies 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 Benth. mst.— Sienolobium cæruleum, Benth. in Ann. Mus.
Vind. 9. p. 125. et in Ta yl. Ann. N a t. Hist. 2. p . 43«.
H a b . Realejo. A very handsome climbing and twining plant, with large ternate leaves : the middle leaflet
rhomboidal, on a rather long petiole ; the lateral ones on very short petiolules, half rhomboidal, 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 diffused
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 tuherosa; caule volubili reflexo-piloso, foliolis elliptico-ovatis acutis mu-
ci-onulatis su p ra glabris subtus strigillosis, floribus axillaribus geminis subsessilibus et
foliis abortivis summis in te rru p te spicatis (radice tuberosa oblonga. DC.) — D e Cand. P ro d r.
2. p . 238.
H a b . Between San Bias and Tepic.—This has much the habit of G. glabella, Mich. but it diflers 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 deseription of his G. tuherosa is very brief and unsatisfactory ; yet, as far as it goes,
it corresponds with our plant, and is also a native of Mexico.