Nicaragua Hoarypea

Cracca nicaraguensis (Oerst.) Kuntze, Rev Gen. 175. 1891.
Tephrosia nicaraguensis Oerst.; Benth. & Oerst. Vidensk. Meddel. 1853: 6. 1853.
A suffruticose perennial, 3-5 dm. high; branches angled, densely villous; leaves 10-15 cm. long; stipules subulate, 6-10 mm. long; leaflets 15-21, oblong, obtuse at each end, silkyvillous on both sides, subsericeous beneath, 2-3 cm. long, thick, strongly veined beneath; racemes short, terminal; bracts setaceous, caducous; pedicels villous, 1 mm. long in flower, 4 mm. long in fruit; calyx villous, the tube 2-3 cm. long, the lobes lanceolate, acuminate, unequal, the lowest much the longest; corolla about 12 mm. long; banner sericeous-villous on the back; wings oblong, short-clawed; keel-petals broadly obliquely obovate, obtuse; pod straight, 4 cm. long, 4 mm. wide, ferruginous-villous.
Type locality: Savannas between Granada and Masaya, Nicaragua. Distribution: Nicaragua and Costa Rica.

Cracca talpa (vS. Wats.) Rose, Bot. Gaz. 40: 143. 1905
Tephrosia emarginata Mart. & Gal. Bull. Acad. Brux. 10': 48. 1843. Not T. cmarginalaH.B.K..'
1823. Tephrosia Talpa S. Wats. Proc Am. Acad. 22: 405. 1887.
A perennial, with a woody cespitose base; stems 3-6 dm. high, sulcate, densely villous, subvelutinous, with yellowish pubescence; leaves 1-2 din. long; stipules 10-12 mm. long, linear-setaceous; petiole 2-5 cm. long, as well as the rachis densely villous, sulcate; leaflets 11-21, oblong, rounded at each end, coriaceous, silky on both sides, densely so and strongly veined beneath, 3-5 cm. long, 1-1.5 cm. wide; racemes terminal and rarely one or two in the upper axils, 1-2 dm. long, many flowered; flowers 3-6 at each node; calyx silky villous, the tube 2.5 mm. long, the lobes 3 mm. long, lanceolate, acuminate; corolla rose colored, 15-18 mm. long; banner suborbicular, silky without; wings obliquely oblanceolate, with a rounded basal auricle; pod 3-5 cm. long, 6 mm. wide, straight, densely villous, 4-6-seeded; seeds mottled, 3 mm. long, 2 mm. broad.
Type locality: Rio Blanco, Jalisco.
Distribution: Durango and Sonora to Oaxaca.