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rigida, glabra, erectiusculo, 1-2 lineas longz, persistentes. Fronrs haud Suppetunt, Prpuxcuri ( fructiferi) 
axillares, solitarii, 5- 10 lineas longi, teretiuseuli, glabri, apice 1-5- carpi. Lxcvurxa Subsessilia, linearia, 
compressa, acuto-submucronata, basi acutiuscula, margine incrassato cincta, sicca, ad seminum sedes 
torulosa, recta vel subfaleata, unilocularià, bivalvia, 14-26-sperma, fusca, glabra, 18-26 lineas longa, 
12-2 lineas lata; valve membranacez. SzuisA liaud suppetunt. 
5. DESMANTHUS pzrnzssus. q- 
D. suffraticosus; prostratus ; inermis; foliis bipinnatis; pinnis bijugis; foliolis 10- 14- jugis , 
linearibus, acutiusculis , ciliatis ; glandula inter infimum pinnarum par; capitulis paucilloris ; 
floribus decandris ; leguminibus elongatis , linearibus. 
Desmanthus depressus Sp. pl. ed. JV illd. 4. p. 1046. Plant. legum. p. 115. t. 35. 
Mimosa depressa Poiret. Encycl. Suppl. x. p. 58. 
Crescit in litore Oceani Pacifici, prope Moche Perueianorum. P Floret et fructificat 
Decembri. 
Cavrzs lignosi, diffusi, prostrati, ramosi ramique inermes, subangulati, leves, glabri, purpurascentes, sparsi, 
divergentes. Fora alterna, solitaria, breviter petiolata, duplicato- paripinnata, pinnis bijugis, duabus superio- 
ribus brevioribus, rarius conjugato- paripinnata. Foliola opposita, 10- 14-juga, brevissime petiolata, linearia, 
acutiuscula, basi inzquilatéra et subtruncata, integerrima, nervo medio obsoleto, membranacea, utrinque 
glábra, margine purpurascentia et ciliata, 2-22 lineas longa, 2-2 linez lata; inferiora ct superiora gradatim 
minora. Rhachis communis in mucronem subulatum desinens, teretiuscula, subglabra, adjectopetiolo com- 
muni 5-4 lineas longa. Glandula inter inferius pinnarum par, sessilis , suborbiculata, medio urceolato- 
depressa, glabra. Rhaches partiales apice subulate, ubi foliola insident, puberule, 5-7 lineas longo, eglan- 
dulose. SrrPvLE petiolares, geminz, subulato-setiformes, rigide, erecta, glabrz, petiolo longiores, per- 
sistentes. CarrruzA axillaria, solitaria, pedunculata, oblonga, pauciflora (7-10-flora ex Bonpl.) , magnitudine 
grani tritici, folium subzquantia. PepuxcUm filiformes, glabriusculi, ebracteati, 5-7 lineas longi ; fructiferi 
vix longiores. Fronzs sessiles, parvi, ad basim bractea minutissima ovata acuminata glabra suffulti, albi. 
Caxyx campanulatus, quinquedentatus, glaber; dentibus acutis, subzqualibus. Pzrara quinque, hypogyna, 
spathulata, plana, subuninervia, obtusa, iwqualia, cum dentibus calycinis alternantia, calyce longiora. Sra- 
xia decem, hypogyna, omnia fertilia, petalis longiora, subiqualia. FrraweNTA capillacea, libera, glabra. 
ÁANTHERE ovato-oblongz, obtuse, basi emarginata, supra basim affixe, erecto, biloculares, glabrz, longi- 
tudinaliter interne dehiscentes. Ovanruw superum, sessile, lineare, glabrum, apice in stylum brevem desi- 
nens.SrYrs glaber.Sriwa subinfundibuliforme.LrcuuINA 1-4inquolibet pedunculo communi, non stipitata, 
linearia, acuminato-rostrata, complanata, ad seminum sedes torulosa, utroque margine parum incrassata, 
subrecta, fusca, glabra, nitidula, unilocularia, bivalvia, polysperma, subbipollicaria; valve membranacez. 
Sxurwa circiter 20, subrhombeo-lenticularia, lzevia, fusca, glabra, nitida, vix magnitudine grani cannabis; 
utroque latere stria semicirculari, hilum versus aperta instructa; IxrEcuwENTUM duplex; exterius tenuissimum. 
humectatum solubile; interius (endospermium) corneum, intus substantia diaphana gelatinoso- cornea 
vestitum. Ewrno rectus. Corvrepowzs subrotunde, vix rhombezm, basi, ubi radicule adnatz, profunde 
emarginatze, planz, carnose, lutez. Rapicra brevis, ovata, obtusa, hilum spectans, 
