Brongniartia hirsuta Rydb.

Brongniartia hirsuta Rydberg, sp. nov
A shrub; young branches rather densely villous; leaves 8-12 cm. long; stipules narrowly lance-linear, 15 mm. long, caducous; petiole 1.5 cm. long, as well as the rachis more or less vinous-pilose; leaflets 11-15, ovate or lance-elliptic, rounded at the base, obtuse or acute and cuspidate at the apex, 3-4 cm. long, strongly reticulate, glabrate above, silky-pilose on the ribs beneath; flowers axillary, usually 2 in each axil; pedicels 2-2.5 cm.* long, villous; calyx 15 mm. long, densely long-villous; corolla unknown; pod 5-6 cm. long, 2-2.5 cm. wide, glabrous, narrowly wing-margined on the iupper suture, 3-5-seeded.
Type collected at Hacienda Cierno, Querftaro, August 20, 1905, Rose, Painter &* Rose 9652 (herb. N. Y. Bot. Gard.).
Distribution : Queretaro.