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ultima paullo longiora. Legumen sesquipollicare, cylin- 

 dricum, constans e cachleis 12-20 arctissime approximatis. 

 — California between San Miguel and Monterey, Coulter. 



If the pods in all the Strombocarpas were like those of this 

 species and the P. strombulifera, they might be easily charac- 

 terised as a distinct genus ; but that of P. torquata is inter- 

 mediate between them and the Algarobas. 



P.? striata, sp. n.; glabra, ramulis crassis costato-striatis 

 apice attenuato-subspinescentibus, stipulis spinescentibus re- 

 curvis, pinnis unijugis, foliolis 2-3-jugis oblongis, pedunculis 

 folio longioribus, capitulis globosis, petalis glabris, ovario 

 villoso. — Ramuli virides, nitidis nonnulli compressi, omnes 

 costis flavicantibus striati. Stipulse parvse, valde recurvee. 

 Folia pauca ; petioli communes breves, pinnae semipollicares 

 v. paullo longiores ; foliola 3 lin. longa, rigidula. Pedunculi 

 solitarii v. gemini, 8-10 lin. longi. Flores virides. Calyx 

 brevis, truncatus, minute 4-dentatus. Petala 5, omnino 

 glabra, basi diu coheerentia. Stamina 10, corolla duplo 

 longiora; antherarum glandula majuscula. — Port St. Helena, 

 South America, Captain King. The pod being unknown the 

 genus of this plant must remain doubtful. The anthers are 

 glanduliferous as in Prosopis but there is no wool at the 

 extremity of the petals. 



Dichrostachys, Hook. Journ. A, p. 353. 

 D. nutans, p. 353. — Acacia spinosa, E. Mey. Comm. PI. 

 Afr. Austr. 1, p. 170. — Mimosa sanguinea, Bruce, Trav. 5, 

 P- 34 cum ic. — Abyssinia, Schimper. Sect. 2, n. 704 ; Maca- 

 lisberg, Burke.— According to Krauss' Flora 1 844, p. 359, 

 this is also D. caffra, Meissn. Krauss' n. is however wrongly 

 quoted 248, instead of 148 (248 being a Hypoxia) and n. 326, 

 which is in my set without doubt the same plant, is erro- 

 neously referred (though with a doubt) to Acacia cinerea, 

 kpr. or D. cinerea. 



Neptunia, Hook. Journ. 4, p. 354. 

 N. oleracea, p. 354.— Cordofan, Kotschy, n. 204 ; Guaya- 

 quil, Hartweg, n. 654. 



