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Many kinds of ne inhabit the Coamo Valley, conspicuous 
among those in bloom at the time of our visit being the yellow- 
flowered retama prieta (Cassia polyphylia) and Pictetia aculeata 
of the pea-family. The latter is tree-like, but grows with several 
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golden by its great abundance. Lilac-flowered, leguminous 
shrubs of the genus Sabinea or Corynella, called retama, formed 
elegant leafless wands up to six feet long. A curious Gesnerta, 
some six feet high, occasional i in the arroyos, has large, oblique, 
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