Refugium Botanicum. | [ November, 1871. 
TAB. 294. 
Natural Order LEGUMINOS. 
Sub-order Mimosre2. 
Genus Cauiianpra (Benth. in Hook. Lond. Journ. i. 93). Flores 
5-meri vel rarius 6-meri polygami. Calyx campanulatus den- 
tatus vel rarius profundior divisus. Corolla infundibuliformis 
petalis ad medium coalitis. Stamina 10—100, longe exserta 
basi vel alte in tubum connata; anthere minute glanduloso- 
hirte rarius glabre polline in quoque loculo in massas 2 vel 4 
agglomerato. Ovarium sessile multiovulatum ; stylus filiformis 
stigmate terminale. Legumen lineare rectum vel vix faleatum 
plano-compressum vel subtus valvis ad basin elastice dehiscen- 
tibus, intus continuum epulposum. — Benth. et Hook. fil. Gen. 
Plant. 1. 596. 
C. eraciuis (Klotzsch, Plante Ottoane Eusic. No. 404). Ramis vir- 
gatis puberulis, foliis bipinnatis, pinnis 2—38-jugis foliolis 4—6- 
jugis mediocribus inequilateraliter obovato-oblongis obtusis 
mucronatis utrinque pubescentibus supra obscure lete viridi- 
bus subtus pallidis, capitulis 20—380-floris longe pedunculatis, 
calycibus sessilibus glabris dentibus lanceolatis tubo squi- 
longis, petalis lanceolatis calyce duplo superantibus, stami- 
nibus 80—40 calyce 6—8-plo superantibus, leguminibus glabris 
plano-compressis leviter faleatis 10—12-spermis. 
A native of Columbia, gathered by Otto, Moritz, Fendler and 
others. , 
A copiously branched shrub, with long straight branches and 
finely downy branchlets. Stipules lanceolate, acute, scariose, 
' persistent, striated, a line and a half to two lines. Leaves short- 
stalked, abruptly bipinnate ; pinne two- to three-jugate, erecto- 
patent; leaflets in four to six pairs, nine to fifteen lines long, 
obovate-oblong, unequal-sided, blunt, with a small mucro, finely 
persistently pubescent on both sides, dull apple-green above, 
paler beneath. Heads twenty- to thirty-flowered, on erecto- 
patent downy axillary peduncles two to four inches long. Flowers 
sessile. Calyx one line long, glabrous, the lanceolate teeth about 
equalling the tube. Corolla yellowish, nearly twice the calyx. 
Stamens thirty to forty, six or eight times the length of the 
calyx. Pod glabrous, compressed, slightly falcate, two and a half 
to three inches long, ten- to twelve-seeded. 
