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juga, dimidiato-linearia; glandula tenuiter stipitata. Pedicelli calyce vix longiores bre- 
vioresve. Stigma stylo abbreviato peltatum.— Benth. Fl. Austr. ii. 290. 
C. prostrata, Roxb.! Hort. Beng. 32. 
Senna prostrata, Roxb. ! Fl. Ind. ii. 359. 
Hab. Tropical Asia and Australia. 
279. C. SUPPLEX, Mart.! Fl. Bras. Cesalp. 163. Annua, prostrata, patentim pilosa. 
Foliola 4-6-juga, parva, anguste oblonga; glandula parva, tenuiter stipitata. Stipulæ ob- 
lique cordatæ. Legumen brevi acumine inflexo uncinatum. 
Hab. Tropical America: Brazil, prov. Bahia, Pernambuco, Piauhy, and Goyaz. 
(C. zambesica has also the long-stipitate gland of this group.) 
Series 3. Paucijugæ. Perennes v. fruticose, erecta v. diffuse. Foliola 3-7-juga, mem- 
branacea v. subcoriacea, costa excentrica pennivenia; glandule parve, breviter stipitate. 
280. C. CORDISTIPULA, Mart.! Herb. Fl. Bras. 189. Suffrutex procumbens, piloso- 
pubescens. Foliola 5-7-juga, parva, lineari-oblonga, paucivenia. Stipulæ cordatæ, aris- 
tatæ. Flores mediocres v. majusculi. Leguminis acumen rectiusculum.—"M. Bras. 164. 
C. psammophila, Benth. in herb. Acad. Petrop. olim. 
Hab. Tropical America: Brazil, prov. Mattogrosso, Riedel, Manso, 
281. C. SCHLIMII, Benth., sp. n. Diffusa, pubescens v. hirsuta. Foliola 2—4-juga, obovato- 
cuneata, semipollice breviora, venis a costa divergentibus furcatis dichotomisve cum 2-3 
uno latere a basi oriundis ; glandula urceolata, sessilis v. substipitata. Stipulæ e basi latius- 
cule cordata subulato-acuminate. Flores mediocres, pedicellis brevibus. 
Hab. Tropical America: Columbia, near Ocaña, Schlim, n. 281. 
This has much the aspect of C. cordistipula ; but the leaflets are shorter and broader, and the venation 
is peculiar. 
282. C. TENELLA, H. B. et K.! Nov. Gen. et Sp. Pl. vi. 305. Caules e rhizomate lignoso, 
breves, tenelli foliaque glabra. Foliola 3-4-juga, obovato-cuneata, semipollice breviora, 
venis a costa divergentibus, paucis subreticulatis v. hine inde furcatis; glandula breviter 
stipitata. Stipulæ parvæ. Flores mediocres, pedicellis longiusculis. | 
Hab. Tropical America : near San Borja on the Orinoco, Humboldt and Bonpland. 
Allied to C. Schlimii, but quite glabrous, the veins of the leaflets less prominent and the stipules very 
small. 
C. foliosa, G. Don, Gen. Syst. ii. 446, from Peru, Pavon, which I have not seen, may be the same as 
C. tenella, but is insufficiently described for identification. 
283. C. GnANTII, Oliv.! Fl. Trop. Afr. ii. 279. Glaberrima. Caules e rhizonate pe- 
renni, breves, diffusi v. ascendentes. Foliola 4-6-juga, latiuscule oblonga, obtusissima, 
membranacea. Flores mediocres, pedicellis subpollicaribus. - 
Hab. Tropical Africa. 
284. C. Wrientu, À. Gray!, Pl. Wright. ii. 50 (Smiths. Contr. v.). Glaberrima. 
Caules e rhizomate perenni, breves, erectiusculi. Foliola 4-6-juga, anguste oblonga, 
obtusa, membranacea. Flores mediocres, pedicellis subpollicaribus. 
Hab. Subtropical North America: New Mexico. 
285. C. TENUISEPALA, Benth.! in Mart. Fl. Bras. Cesalp. 164. porc Foliola 
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