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punctatis, petiolulo brevissimo ad basin uniglanduloso. 
Stipule subulato-setacez, glabrze, atro-fuscse. Pedunculi 
oppositifolii et terminales, folio triplo longiores, teretes, 
glabriusculi, tactu subscabri. Spice nutantes (an semper?) 
3-4 unciales, cylindraceze, compacte. Bractee mem- 
branaces, ovate, mucronate, concave, dorso nigro- 
virides, subglandulose, margine diaphano scarioso, calycis 
- longitudine. Calyx glaber, membranaceus, striis decem 
nigris, inter strias glandulis oblongis nigris, dentibus 
nigris, lato-subulatis, rectis, tubo duplo brevioribus, mar- 
ginibus intus ciliato-sericeis. Corolla ut videtur czerulea. 
This Dalea has considerable affinity with the Mexican D. 
mutabilis, Cav., (D. bicolor, Willd.); but that has much shorter 
spikes and a calyx free from those oblong black glands, which 
are so conspicuous in the present individual. D. Mutisit, 
Kunth, approaches still nearer to it; only that there the mucro 
of the bractea, and the teeth of the calyx, are vastly longer, 
and the leaves are characterised as hairy. D. Onobrychis, 
again, of De Candolle, a Peruvian plant, has the spikes ovato- 
cylindrical and villous. 
4 Astragalus Garbancillo, Cav. ? suffruticosus ? foliolis 10-12- 
jugis subvillosis oblongis obtusis bidentatisque, stipulis 
concretis oppositifoliis, racemis pedunculatis folio lon- 
gioribus, calycibus nigro-villosis, leguminibus inflatis 
pilosis, Cav. Ic. v. 2. p. 59. £ 85. De Cand. Prodr. v. 2. 
p. 283. 
Has. In the Valley of Canta,- 
The present plant belongs toa tribe of the extensive genus 
Asir agalus, having the stipules not adnate with the petiole, 
but united opposite to the leaf at their base; thus being bi- 
dentes Of this groupe, three are natives of Peru; A. Gar- 
bancillo, Cav., A. bidentatus, Humb. et Kunth, Nov. Gen. 
Am.. 6. t. 584, and A. unifultus, L'Hérit. and De Cand. 
ut t. 10. These have a great affinity the one with the 
eB eee the present plant of Mr. Cruckshanks, though 
dix xe y agreeing with any one of them, I dare not con- 
Sider as really distinct, especially from the former of the 
