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subulate ; very caducous ; flowers 1 in dense spicate racemes ; racemes 

 terminal, simple or branched ; pedicels articulated at apex ; bracts 

 and bractlets narrow, very caducous {North Jmericcr). 



103. Paryella A. Gray. 3 — "Calyx obconical 5-toothed ; teeth 

 short equal. Petals 0. Stamens 10 ; filaments inserted in bottom 

 of calyx, free ; anthers uniform. Germen 2-ovulate ; style rather 

 thick, slightly exserted from calyx, hooked at apex ; stigma gland- 

 like lateral (of Eysenhardtia). Legume indehiscent, obliquely ob- 

 ovate coarsely glandular, tapering at base stipitate, surrounded by 

 persistent calyx, filled by solitary oval seed ; cotyledons oblong 

 foliaceous ; radicle inflexed. — A small shrub, much branched, almost 

 glabrous ; branches broom-like ; branches and leaves sparingly 

 sprinkled with glandular dots ; leaflets plurijugate with an odd 

 one, filiform channelled petiolulate ; stipules and stipels or 

 reduced to small glands ; flowers small, in terminal spikes" {New 

 Mexico*). 



104. Apoplanesia Presl. 5 — "Calyx membranous; lobes obtuse, 

 nearly equal, growing much after anthesis ; venation reticulated 3- 

 ribbed. Petals nearly equal in length, unguiculate ; standard ob- 

 ovate -oblong reflexed; wings oblique linear undulate; keel- petals 

 free spathulate obtuse undulate. Stamens 10, all connate at base 

 into a short sheath cleft above; anthers uniform. Ovary sessile 1- 

 ovulate ; style filiform glabrous ; stigma oblique capitate. Legume 

 semi-orbicular compressed half-included coriaceous glandular 

 wrinkled cymbiform apiculate. — An erect shrub, sprinkled with 

 glandular dots ; leaves imparipinnate ; leaflets cc, quite entire, 

 petiolulate exstipellate ; stipules ; flowers 6 diffuse, in axillary and 

 terminal co-flowered panicles ; bracts minute" {Mexico 1 ). 



105. Asagreea H. Bn. 8 — Eeceptacle shortly turbinate, 10-ribbed, 

 lined by a thin disk. Calyx tubular-campanulate, shortly 5-lobed ; 



1 Small, whitish, or violet. 3 In Proceed. Amer. Acad., vii. 397. 



2 Species 8 or 9. Michx., Fl. Bor.-Amer., ii. 4 Species 1. P.JUifolia A. Geay, loc. cit. 

 61. — Ntttt., Gen. Amer., ii. 91. — Tore. & Ge., 5 Symbol., i. 03, t. 11. — Endl., Gen., n. 

 Fl. JST. Amer.,\. 305. — A. Gray, in Proceed. 6731.— 15. 11., Gen., 492, n. 84. — Microlabium 

 Amer. Acad., vii. loc. cit. — SWEET, Brit. Fl. Liebm., in Vidensk. Medd. (1853), 10 1. 

 Gard., t. 211.— Bot. Reg., t. 427. — BoL Mag., fi "Small, white." 



t. 2112.— Walp., Rep., i. 654 j Arm., ii. 360; "' Wai.i'., Rep., v. 517 ; A,,,i., \\. 179. 



iv. 185. 8 In Adansonia ix. 232 (nee Li.nlh .). 



