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broadly ovate: racemes open: sepals oblong, obtuse, more or less pubes- 
cent, 3 lines long, a half shorter than the corolla: upper petal veined with 
purple, the claws and outer filaments densely stipitate-glandular: pods 
linear-oblong, an inch long or more, nearly straight, puberulent and some- 
what stipitate-glandular, 6-12-seeded—From New Mexico and Arizona to 
Northern Mexico; at Camp Goodwin, Ariz., Rothrock (351). 
HoFFMANSEGGIA DREPANOCARPA, Gray (Pl. Wright. i, 58)—Puberu- 
lent, not glandular nor glandular-dotted, the stems scarcely 6 inches high, 
from a perennial root: pinne 2 to 5 pairs; leaflets 4 to 10 pairs, oblong, 
obtuse, 2 or 3 lines long; stipules and bracts broadly ovate: racemes open: 
sepals oblong, acute, 2 or 3 lines long, about equalling the obovate sessile 
naked petals: pods linear-oblong, curved, obtuse, an inch long or more, 
puberulent, 6-10-seeded.—Colorado to New Mexico and Arizona; at Camp 
Bowie, Ariz., Rothrock (1008). 
PARKINSONIA* MICROPHYLLA, Torrey (Bot. Mex. Bound. 59).—A shrub 
5 to 10 feet high, with smooth light-green bark, much branched, the 
straight rigid branchlets spinulose ; the younger branches and inflorescence 
somewhat puberulent: common petioles very short or none, rarely spi- 
nescent: leaflets 4 to 6 pairs, on a terete rhachis, broadly oblong or rounded, 
obtuse or acutish, not narrowed at the oblique base, glaucous, 2 lines long 
or less: racemes very short, axillary and sessile; pedicels evidently jointed 
a little below the flower: calyx valvate: petals 3 or 4 lines long, deep straw- 
color, the upper one white: anthers orange, exserted: ovary appressed- 
silky: pod 2 or 3 inches long, attenuate at each end, 1—-3-seeded, contracted 
between the seeds—Southern Arizona, from the Colorado eastward; col- 
lected in 1871, the locality not given. 
Cassia BAUHINIOIWES, Gray (PI. Lindh. ii, 180).—Perennial, ec 
a span high, stout, cinereous with a usually dense, more or less appressed 
pubescence: leaflets a single pair, oblique, ovate-oblong, obtuse, 8 to 15 
* PARKINSONIA, Linn.—Calyx 5-parted, with a long-turbinate base jointed on the pedicel; divi- 
sions mostly valvate. Petals with claws, the upper included and broadest, somewhat cordate; the claw 
pubescent and nectariferous. Stamens 10, distinct; filaments pilose at base, the upper one gibbous; 
anthers versatile, dehiscent longitudinally. Style filiform, acute. Pod thin-coriaceous, 2-valved, linear 
to linear-oblong, compressed, usually more or less torulose. Seeds albuminous.—Trees or shrubs, often 
spinose; leaves bipinnate, the common petiole short (often spinescent or none), with 1 or 2 pairs of pin- 
ne; flowers yellow, on slender pedicels, in short loose racemes.—WaTsoN, Flora Calif. i, 162. 
