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CALYC1FLORAE. 
twice the length of the corolla, slightly accrete for half their 
length at the base: anthers minute, yellow. Ovary small, ob- 
long, green : style length of the stamens : stigma obtuse. Le- 
gume about 3 inches in length, linear, piano-compressed, vel- 
vety, about 10-seeded : seeds covered with a pellicle, orbi- 
culate, compressed, yellowish. 
XXXVII. Desmanthus. 
Flowers polygamous. Calyx 5-toothed. Petals 5, 
distinct, oblongo-spathulate, or united, or in the 
neuter flowers none. Stamens 10, rarely 5, with the 
filaments in the lower flowers sterile, dilatato-mem- 
branaceous or filiform. Legume continuous, juiceless, 
2-vaIved. — De Cand. 
Herbaceous or fruticose ; leaves bipinnate ; leaflets linear ; 
spikes axillary, ovate or cylindrical ; flowers white. Name, 
from dsff/xog a bond, and av6og a flower ; on account of the fasci- 
cules of flowers being as it were bound together. 
1. Desmanthus strictus. Erect Desmanthus. 
Suffruticose erect, pinnae 4-5-paired with a glan- 
dule between the lowest pair, peduncles naked, 
flowers capitate bracteolated decandrous, legume nar- 
row-linear 20-25-seeded. 
Mimosa frutescens siliquis compressis falcatis umbellatis, 
pedunculo longissimo, Browne, 253. — Desmanthus strictus, Be 
Cand. Prod. II. 445. 
HAB. Roadside near Castle Perkins, Liguanea. 
FL. May. 
A shrub, 2-3 feet in height : branches angulose, striated, 
glabrous. Leaves alternate, bipinnate; pinnae 3-5-paired; 
leaflets 25-paired, linear, acute, ciliated: petiole 3-gonal, bear- 
ing an orbiculat.e excavated cup-shaped glandule between the 
lowest pair of pinnae. Stipules setaceous. Peduncle axillary, 
solitary, shorter than the leaf, bearing 6-8 flowers in a head. 
Flowers small, white, sessile, furnished with a minute ovate 
acuminate scariose ciliated bracteole. Calyx 5-fid : teeth 
subulate, erect. Petals 5, about twice the length of the calyx, 
linear, acute, greenish. Stamens 10, longer than the petals, 
delicately capillary, matted. Ovary oblong, compressed, glab- 
rous : style interlaced with the stamens, and of the same length : 
stigma capitate, excavated at the extremity. Legumes 2-3 
inches in length, .and 2-3 lines in breadth, linear, about 25- seed- 
ed : seeds oval, compressed. 
