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infra pinnas omnes. Stipulae setacese. Pedunculi axillares, 

 solitarii ebracteati. Capitulum ovato-globosum. 



1. D. leptolobus (Torr et Gr. ! Fl. N. Amer. i. 402.), 

 glabriusculus, caule angulato, pinnis 6 — 10-jugis, foliolis 

 13 — 25-jugis anguste linearibus, glandula parva infra pinnas 

 ^ — 2-infimas, capitulis paucifloiis, floribus pentandris, legu- 

 minibus angustis 5 — 8-spermis, seminibus anguste oblongis. 

 — Arkansas, Texas, Drummond, 3d coll. n. 152. 



2. D. virgatus (Willd. Spec. iv. 1047.), erectus, glabrius- 

 culus, caule angulato, pinnis 1 — 7-jugis distantibus, foliolis 

 10 — 20-jugis oblongo-linearibus, glandula ovata majuscula 

 infra pinnas infimas, capitulis paucifloris, floribus decandris, 

 leguminibus 10 — 30-spermis, seminibus ovatis. — D. virgatus^ 

 Willd.; D, sir ictus, Bertol. ; and T) . leptophyllus, Humb. et 

 Kunth. — DC. Prod. ii. 444, 445, cum syn. — Common in 

 the West Indian islands, also Pernambuco, Gardner, n. 981, 

 S. Brazil, and Buenos Ayres, Tweedie, Gillies, etc; East In- 

 dia, Jaquemont, Wallich, (Cat. n. 5297.) etc. 



3. D. depressus (Kunth. Mim. 115. t. 35.), diffusus, glabri- 

 usculus, pinnis 1 — 5-jugis, foliolis 10 — 20-jugis, glandula 

 orbiculata saepius parva nunc deficiente infra pinnas infimas, 

 capitulis paucifloris, floribus decandris, leguminibus 8 — 30- 

 spermis rectiusculis v. leviter falcatis, seminibus ovatis. — 

 Common in the West Indian islands, also Texas, Drummond, 

 3d coll. n. 151; Lima, Mathews, n. 441, Cuming, n. 918, 

 Brazil, Sella, and in other parts of S. America. — Very near to 

 D. virgatus. D. diJ^icsus,Wi[\d. is probably the same species. 



4. D. acuminatus (sp. n.), pubescens v. glabriusculus, 

 caule diffuso subangulato, pinnis 1 — 4-jugis, foliolis 6 — 10- 

 jugis, glandula majuscula ovata infra pinnas infimas, capitu- 

 b*s paucifloris, floribus decandris, leguminibus falcatis acumi- 

 natis Ifflvibus 8— 13-spermis. — Rio Brazos, Texas, Drum- 

 mond.—CWie^y distinguished from D. depressus, by the pod, 

 which is intermediate between those of D. depressus and D. 

 hrachylobus. 



5. D. reticulatus (sp. n.), diff"usus, pubescens, pinnis 1—4- 

 jugis, foliolis 4-- 8-jugis brevibus oblongis obovatisve glauces* 



