Cojoba tenella Britton & Rose

Cojoba tenella Britton & Rose, sp. nov
A shrub, the twigs slender, densely brownpubescent. Petiole and rachis pubescent; glands cup-shaped, sessile, small, borne on the petiole between the pinnae, and sometimes between the pairs of leaflets; pinnae 3 pairs; leaflets 8-10 pairs, lanceolate, subcordate and oblique at base, thin, somewhat veiny beneath but hardly so above, glabrous, or sometimes puberulent, especially along the midvein above, pale beneath and hairy along the veins, sharply acute; peduncle slender, 4-7 cm. long, pubescent, bearing near the top a conspicuous bract 4 mm. long; bractlets small, persistent, as long as the calyx; calyx 2 mm. long, its tube glabrous, its teeth hairy; corolla 7 mrn. long, glabrous except the brown-hairy teeth; legume 6 cm. long, reddish, puberulent.
Along Stann Creek, British Honduras, January 27, 1926, Samuel J. Record.