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708 . 



202. C-rotundifoUa Pers. (Euch. 1. 456.) 



Oassiam bifoliolatam DC. ad rotnndifoliam P^ ducend^ 

 esse ceusui, quia haec quoque 2 folioUs iuvenitar, nt speci- 

 men probat olim a Commcrsou (c cnjiis plantis haec species 

 descripta est) cum WUldenow commnnicatum , et quia iuter 

 plantas Sellovianag q;uaedani iiiveniiinfiir specimina foliolis iii- 

 terdiim bijngis. CI. Decandolle sine dubio in eo erravit, 

 qnod speciei suae petiolum muticnm vocat, in ipsa culm ico»e 

 petiolns setnla instrnctns deliueatns est, quae vero serius in- 

 tcrduia decidit, tit in mnltis Cassiis. — Caules plures e ra- 

 dice nascnutur simplibes ant raraosi, toti procnmbcntes vel 

 adsoeudentes. Flores semper pcntandros vidi, 



207. C. mucronata Spr. (Syst. 2. 341.) 

 Friiticulus liipedalis vel ultra. CauJis erectus, teres, cras- 

 sitie penuae anserinae, mox in ramos partitas; rami caali 

 simiUimi, albido-Terrucosi, pins minus pubescentes; ramnli 

 cdmpresso - augulati", stipulae' lanceolatae, plerumqne longe 

 acnminatae, civc, 1^2'" ig., -pnbescentes, post folia delapsa 

 persisfentes. Peiiolus semiteres, gupra canaliciiJainSj in setu- 

 lam ri^idam persistentem productns, pnbesceus, j^z"^" ^^'* 

 glandula sessilis, urceolata, immediate infra par infinium ant 

 inter pliira vol omnia paria, infima tunc ceteris plerwma"* 

 majore. Foliola sessilia, 2— 4-iuga, oblonga, summa la- 

 terdum pbovata, basi obllqna, subinaequiiafcrai apice ro ton- 

 data mucronata,, supra glaberrima nervis vix prominentibuSi 

 SttbtHS nervis distinete prominentibus margineque interdumj"^*^ 



parcavestlta, ri^ide membranacea, '/a — 1" 'o'? 2— f" ='^ 

 subaeciuilonga. Pedicelli inter foliola siiperiora axilUres, sn - ; 



teretes, pubescentes, singuli Yz — l" %-, si pl^^-es ^^^^J^^ I 

 aequaipfi, quorum longiores pedicellnm singnhim ^^^^'^^'.^^^^ 

 aequant; Bracteolae 2, infra petioii apiccm idtsTna,nm> ^^^^ 

 ceolatae, loiige acumiuaiae, pubescentes, nltralinc«"* *>^o 



