Brongniartia glabrata Hook. & Arn.

Brongniartia bracteolata M. Micheli, M£m. Soc Geneve 34: 249. 1903.
A shrub, I m. high; young branches sparingly strigulose, soon glabrate; leaves 10-17 cm. long; stipules lanceolate or narrowly ovate, acute, 8-10 mm. long; petiole 1-2 mm. long; leaflets 13-15, oval, subcoriaceous, 4-5 cm. long, 2-2.5 cm. wide, rounded at each end or subemarginate at the apex, sparingly strigose-puberulent on both sides, soon glabrate and shining above, paler beneath, reticulate; petiolules 2 mm. long; flowers axillary, 1 or 2 in each axil; pedicels about 2 cm. long; bractlets broadly ovate, subcordate at the base, strigulose, rather persistent; calyx strigulose, 1.5 cm. long, the lobes lanceolate, acute, equaling the tube; corolla blood-red, with a greenish blotch at the base; banner orbicular, 2-2.5 cm. long, short-clawed; wings and keel-petals scarcely shorter, the former with a rounded basal auricle, narrower than the keelpetals; pod glabrous, 7-8 cm. long, 2 cm. broad, 6-7-seeded; seeds about 1 cm. long, 6 mm. wide.
Type locality: Sierra Madre, Guerrero (or Michoacan?). Distribution: Known only from the type locality.

Brongniartia strigillosa Rydberg, sp. nov
A shrub, 1.5 m. high; young branches finely strigillose; leaves 5-8 cm. long; stipules lanceolate, 2 mm. long; leaflets 5-7, elliptic or oblong, acutish ac each end, mucronate, 1-2.5 cm. long, the terminal one sometimes 3-4 cm. long, glabrous above, strigillose and glabrate beneath; flowers 1 or 2 in each axil; pedicels about 2 cm. long; bractlets about 8 mm. long; calvx strigillose, 12 mm. long, the lobes lanceolate, acute; corolla purple, 2 cm. long; banner orbicular, the other petals obliquely obovate; pod glabrous, 6 cm. long or more, probably about 1.5 cm. wide when mature, 6-7-seeded.
Type collected in the vicinity of Acapometa, Tepic, April 11, 1910, Rose, Standley iRussell 14395 (U. S. Nat. Herb. no. 637272).

Brongniartia glabrata H. & A. Bot. Beech. Voy. 288. 1836
A low shrub; branchlets glabrous; leaves 6-18 cm. long; stipules lanceolate or ovatelanceolate, 5 mm. long or less, deciduous; petioles and rachis glabrous; petioles 2-4 mm. long; leaflets 5-13, oval, rounded or obtuse at each end, mucronate at the apex, 1-4 cm. long, 0.5-2 cm. wide, somewhat reticulate, apparently glabrous, but under a lens sparingly and minutely strigillose; flowers pseudo-racemose, the inflorescence naked, i. e., the floral leaves reduced to the inconspicuous, caducous stipules; flowers 1 or 2 at each node; pedicels 2-3 cm. long, strigillose; bractlets ovate, strigillose, early caducous; calyx about 18 mm. long, strigillose, the lobes lanceolate, acute; corolla purple; banner broadly obovate, about 2 cm. long, with a thick claw 4 mm. long; wings obliquely obovate, with a deltoid basal auricle, nearly 2 cm. long, the claw 2 mm. long; keel-petals obliquely oblanceolate, 2-3 mm. long; pod glabrous, about S cm. long, 1.5 cm. wide, the stipe about 1 cm. long; seed about 8 mm. long. 5 mm. wide. • .
Type locality: Tepic.
Distribution. Tepic.

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