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384. ScHRANKIA PLATYcARPA (sp. nov.): glabra, leviter 
aculeata; pinnis 4—6-jugis; foliolis oblongis ciliatis aveniis : 
leguminibus latiuscule linearibus compressis acuminatis acu- 
leis brevibus echinatis pedunculo subduplo longioribus, val- 
vulis planis margine persistente (replo) fere duplo latioribus. 
— Mimosa Reemeriana, Scheele in Linnea, 21. p. 456? — 
Dry, stony, prairies, New Braunfels. April, in flower; Sep- 
tember, in fruit. — I have seen this species from other Texan 
correspondents. It is distinguished from S. angustata, in 
some degree by its rather broader and more ciliate leaflets, 
and obviously by its legumes, which are about three inches 
long, but a quarter of an inch in width, flat, and about twice 
the breadth of the persistent margin; thus confirming Mr. 
Bentham’s remark, that the genus is not sufficiently distinct 
from Mimosa. ‘The valves are rather sparsely, the thickened 
margin densely, echinate with very short, somewhat uncinate 
prickles. From the locality this is most probably the Mimosa 
Reemeriana of Scheele ; but that blundering and unscrupulous 
propounder of species had not seen the legumes, and his 
description applies nearly as well to any other Schrankia. 
To the latter genus, so long as it 1s maintained, the present 
species must be referred, notwithstanding the flatness of 
the pod. 
385. Desmanruus veLutinus (Scheele in Linnea, I. c.): 
adscendens v. prostratus e basi suffrutescente ; caulibus petio- 
lisque pube mollissima cinereis; pinnis 3—6-jugis, glandula 
parva concava inter infimas; foliolis 10—20-jugis lineari- 
oblongis avenlis margine preesertim pilosis; floribus decan- 
ve] ovali-oblongis mucronatis; panicula racemosa laxa; floribus 5-meris 10-andris; 
legumine lato-lineari longiuscule stipitato membranaceo glabro nitido inermi 6 -8- 
spermo. — On the Rio Grande, Texas, Mr. Charles Wright. August, September, 
in flower and fruit. Also gathered near Monterey, Northern Mexico, by Dr. Gregg 
and Dr. Edwards, without fruit; and east of Rinconada by Dr. Gregg in 1848. — 
Plant with the habit of a Schrankia, canescent with a fine and very soft down; the 
partial and general petioles as well as the stem beset with numerous short uncinate 
prickles, Leaflets 3 to 5 lines long. Flowers white, according to Mr. Wright, 
yellowish according to Dr. Gregg. Legume two inches or more in length, with a 
stipe half an inch long, very smooth. 
