Neptunia pubescens Benth.

Neptunia pirbescens, Benth., Hook. Jour. Bot., iv, 356.
Between Parlagua and Luque (857). December.
A slender trailing shrub 20-35 cm. l<mg, entirely unarmed. The
leaves close at a touch as in Mimosa, It grows in hard dry soil.
Leaves bipinnate, with 2—4 pairs of pinnae and 8—25 pairs of minute
leaflets. Flowers bright yellow, exceedingly pretty when fresh,
in solitary globose heads, on peduncles 3 cm. in length. Fruit a
smooth pod 2-r3 cm. long and 5 or 6 mm. broad, flat, 2-edged, con-
taining 6-10 seeds, 2 or 3 together, shortly stipitate. Only a
minute, scattered pubescence on the leaf rachis.
NEW YORK BOTANICAL GARDEN
BOTANICAL
Examined for
NORTH AMERICAN FLORA
PLANTS OF SOUTH AMERICA
Collected by Thos. Morong, 1888-1890.
1 .	Central Paraguay.
Neptunia pubescens Benth.
Shawn Krosnick
Cornell University, Ithaca New York
January 7,2000
B. L. TURNER	?//*?,
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