Coursetia pumila (Rose) Lavin

Benthamantha pumila Rose, Contr. U. S. Nat Herb. 10: 99. 1906.
A perennial, with woody fusiform roots, the stem woody only at the branched base; branches 1-2 dm. high, purplish, sparingly silky, decumbent or ascending; stipules subulate, 3 mm. long; leaves 5-8 cm. long; stipels subulate. 1 mm. long; leaflets 11-15, oblong to oval, 1-2 cm. long, rounded at each end, mucronate, glabrous above, sparingly silky beneath; racemes 3-9 cm. long, 3-6-flowered ; bracts subulate. 2-3 mm. long; calyx sparingly pilose, the tube 1.5 mm. long, the lobes lanceolate, acuminate, 2 mm. long; corolla 6 mm. long, yellowish, the banner partly purplish, with dark veins; pod 4-5 cm. long, 3.5 mm. broad, glabrous or granuliferous, 12-15-seeded.
Type locality: On the road between San Juan del Rio and Cadereyta, Queretaro. Distribution: Queretaro to Puebla.

Benthamantha painteri Rydberg, sp. nov
A perennial, suffruticose below; branches sparingly hairy, 3-5 dm. high, angled, tinged with purple above; leaves 4-7 cm. long; stipules setaceous, 5-7 mm. long; rachis sparingly pubescent with spreading hairs; leaflets 7-15, oval or elliptic, green and sparingly strigose on both sides, 1-2 cm. long, rounded at each end, mucronate; racemes lax, 1-1.5 dm. long; bracts subulate; calyx purplish, sparingly strigose, the tube 2 mm. long, the lobes lance-subulate, acuminate, 2 mm. long; corolla 6-7 mm. long, ochroleucous, tinged with purple; pod 4-5 cm. long, 3 mm. wide, glabrous, 16-25-seeded.
Type collected near Guadalajara, Jalisco, September 30, 1903, Rose &• Painter 7455 (U. S. Nat. Herb. ho. 451059).
Distribution: Jalisco and Durango.