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Crescit ad ripam fluminis Cauce , prope Buga , alt. 490 hex. (Provincia Popayanensi.) 
b? Floret Octobri. 
Rar alterni , subangulati, virescentes, glabri ; ramuli pilis parvis setiformibus adpressis conspersi, Fort 
alterna, brevissime petiolata, pinnata; foliola petiolata, opposita, quadrijuga cum impari, subobovato-oblonga, 
apice rotundata, emarginata et breviter mucronata, basi acutiuscula, integerrima, reticulato-venosa, venis 
primariis obliquis, valde approximatis, subparallelis nervoque medio utrinque prominulis, membranacea, 
glaucescenti-viridia, concoloria, utrinque adpresso- puberula, 12- 16 lineas longa, 5-6 lineas lata ; inferiora 
gradatim minora ; infima 7-8 lineas longa; petioli proprii vix dimidiam lineam longi, striguloso- sericei. 
Rhachis 21-27 lineas longa, interne canaliculata, strigoso- pubescens. SrrPuLx petiolares gemina, lanceo- 
lato- subulatz, rigidiuscule, trinervie, striguloso- pubescentes, 2-22 lineas longa, persistentes. Racrwr in 
ramulis brevibus terminales (rectius? oppositifolii, pedunculati, ad basim [sub infimo fasciculo] folio instructi) , 
solitarii, sessiles, elongati, 5-6-pollicares. Fromrs fasciculato-congesti, pedicellati, magnitudine floris 
Lathyri Aphacz; fasciculis subquinquefloris, valde remotis; rhachi angulata, striguloso-pubescente; pedi- 
lineas longis, teretiusculis, striguloso-sericeis, basi bracteatis; bracteis lineari-subulatis, 
strigulosis, pedicellis dimidio brevioribus, persistentibus. Caryx campanulatus, quinquefidus, membrana- 
cellis 1 à-2 
ceus, externe striguloso- pubescens, persistens; laciniz lanceolato-acuminate, tubo longiores; due supe- 
riores minus profunde fisse; laterales reliquis breviores. ConorrA pentapetala, papilionacea, calyci supra 
basim inserta, violacea ; petala unguiculata, flabellato- et reticulato- venosa, punctulis minutissimis oblongis 
glandulosis 1? conspersa; superius (vexillum) calycem duplo superans, suborbiculatum, obsolete cordatum, 
externe sericeo- pubescens, ante apertionem alas et carinam amplectens; duo lateralia (ale) vix breviora, 
oblique obovata, rotundata, semicordata; duo inferiora (carina) longitudine alarum, falcata, oblique et late 
oblonga, obtusa, subsemicordata, concava, marginibus contiguis superne coheerentia. SrAwINA 10, diadelpha, 
ibidem inserta, adscendentia, in carina recondita, alterna breviora. FrrwENTA lineari-capillacea, uninervia, 
diaphana, glabra; novem in tubum membranaceum compressum supra longitudinaliter fissum connata, 
superne libera; decimum (superius) solutum, inferne dilatatum, supra basim subgeniculatum. Awrnrnz 
biloculares, glabrz, apertze subellipticze, omnes conformes. Ovanrux sessile, lineare, compressum, sericeum, 
aniloculare, apice in stylum desinens. Ovula 7, suturc vexillum spectanti affixa, orbiculata, subadscen- 
dentia. Sryrus crassiusculus, subulatus, compressus, glaber, stamina cquans. Srieua obtusum ?, puberulum. 
Discos? annularis, integer, sub staminibus calyci insertus, basim ovarii laxe cingens. LrzcuwiNA estipitata, 
linearia, compressa, cultriformia, subrecta, rudimento styli mucronata, adpresso-pubescentia, calyce 
persistente suffulta, unilocularia, »5- 20 lineas longa, vix duas lineas lata, suppetentia immatura ; seminula 
septis transversis membranaceis distincta. 
Specimen suppetens carie exesum. 
Indigenz folia hujus planta, loco Cassize Sennz, adhibent. 
. TEPHROSIA vrxusrULA. T 
T. foliolis 5- 7-jugis cum impari, lanceolatis, obtusis, mucronatis calycibusque adpresso- 
pubescentibus, subtus canescentibus; racemis oppositifoliis, basi monophyllis; floribus fasci- 
culatis; leguminibus subcultiformibus , pubescentibus. 
Crescit prope Bordones Cumanensium. p Floret Septembri. 
FnvrEx subsexpedalis; ramulis teretiusculis, puberulis; junioribus angulatis. Forra alterna, petiolata pinnata; 
? JÉcidia? 
