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2 — 2^-pollicare. Valvulse inter semina transverse lineata at 

 non (tanquam e speciminibus apparet) in articulos sponte 

 secedentia Brazil, Pohl. Tiiis species, with some resem- 

 blance in habit to the Asperates, and to the PachycarpcB, is 

 nevertheless easily distinguished by a variety of characters. 



§ 2. PachycarpcB. Frutices inermes plus minusve setosi. 

 Stipulae antrustse. Pinnre pluri-ssepius multijugee. Setae 

 inter pinnas obsoletae. Foliola multijuga coriacea niten- 

 tia saepius ciliato-setoso rarius pube obtecta. Racemi 

 terminales, nudi v. basi foliati, nunc paniculato-ramosi, nunc 

 brevissimi oligocephali. Capitula subglobosa ssepius ma- 

 juscula. Bracteolae setoso-ciliatse. Legumina ssepius 

 brevia polyspernia undique setosa v. muricato-hispida, 

 valvulis plano-convexis crassiusculis subcarnosisve. 



The pod is known but in three or four species, but the 

 whole group have so distinct a habitus, that it is probably 

 much the same in the other species. 



157. M. nitens (sp. n.), setis sparsis patentibus, pinnis 

 2 — 3-jugis, foliolis late linearibns obliquis bine auriculato- 

 truncatis glabris minute ciliatis, panicula laxa aphylia, capi- 

 tulis hispidis, bracteolis corollas superantibus. — Foliola arete 

 approximata 6 — 9 lin. longa, 2 lin. lata, plurinervia. Stami- 

 na fere pollicaria. — Brazil, Pohl. 



158. M. vernicosa (Bongard MS.), setis strigosis brevibus 

 raris, pinnis 4 — 6-jugis, foliolis linearibus obtusis glabris nu- 

 dis, racemo oligocephalo foliis breviore, bracteolis corollam 

 aequantibus, calyce minuto nudo. Foliola 3— 4-lin. longa. 

 — Serra da Lapa, Langsdorff, 



159. M. leiocephala (sp. n.), setis strigosis sparsis, pinnis 

 ^0 — 15-jugis, foliolis linearibus obtusis glabris subciliatis, 

 racemis paniculato-ramosis laxis polycephalis, capitulis gla- 

 bris, bracteolis corolla brevioribus calyceque minuto nudis. — 

 Goyaz, Gart/wer, w. 3706.— Foliola numerosa, 2-lin. longa. 



160. M. setosa (sp. n.), setis longis rufis, pube brevissima 

 intermixta, pinnis 15_35-jugis, foliolis linearibus ciliatis 

 glabriusculis, racemo clongato polyccphalo subramoso, capi- 



