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auctoris offendi. Sic ex gr. Rothins racerao9 describit folio 

 longiores, recurvos, qnos DC. folio breviores dicit. 



R. viscosa a nostra inprirais differt ; canle cinereo, fo- 

 liolis piloso-scabris, trinervibus, discoloribus, petiolis 2 — 3 

 uncialibus, in nostra vix 10 — 11 linearibns; stipnlis orato- 

 lanceolatis, in nostra ovato-acurainatis s. apicnlatis; racerais 

 folio longioribus , bracteis cnm stipnlis coiiforraibns, in jR. 

 sericophyllct linearibns, vexillo pilis depressis extns obsesso, 

 in nostra puberulo; legumine (ex DC.) oblongo, in no9tra 

 breviore. Semina R, sericophyllac snbreniformia, opaca, 

 fnsca, lirabo byü dilntiore, testaeeo. Habitu nostra R, ereetam 

 s. minitnam refert. 



167. Cassia tristicula H. B. K. nov. gen. VI. p. 367. Vo- 

 gel monogr. gen. Cassiae p. 67. No. 246. Linn. XII. p. 341. 

 DC. pr. II. p. 503. 



In Mexico legit Schiede. (Hb. Schlechtendal!). 



Seraina misit a. 1839 cl. C. Ehrenberg. Planta fruti- 

 cosa antea nondnm in hortos introdneta, primnm in tepida- 

 rio flornit Septbr. 1843 et ex illo tempore quovis anno ; le- 

 ^nmina nondum prodnxit. Aestate snb diu in olla. 



Habitu C. Chamaecristae paullisper affinis; at lignosa. 

 Folia somnicnlenta. 



168. Calliandra Portoricensts Bentham in Hook. Lond. 

 Jonrn. of bot. III. p. 98. Acacia portoricensis W. spec. 

 pl. IV. p. 1069. (Willd. Hb. No. 19146 et Schldl.! et Cham. 

 Linnaea V. p. 595. No. 690.) DC. prodr. II. p. 467. Mimosa 

 portoricensis Jacq.^ ic. rar. t. 633. 



Semina in Mexico collecta misit cl. C. Ehrenberg a. 1839. 

 Frntices inde nati in topidario primnm florneront Octobri et 

 Novbr. 1843 et posterioribus annis aestate sub diu conservati 

 An 0- , et Septbr. Nunquam fruetus mafuruerunt. 



Specimina congrua sicca mexicana a Lciboldo collecta 

 et a cl. de Schlechtendal determinata sub No. 19 aeeepi. 



