Chamaecrista greggii (A. Gray) A. Heller

Chamaecrista greggii (A. Gray) Pollard; A. Heller, Cat. N. A PI. ed. 2, 5. 1900.
Cassia Greggii A. Gray, PI. Wright. 1: 59. 1852.
A low shrub, with short, whitish-puberulent twigs. Stipuleslinear-subulate, 1-2 mm. long; petiolar gland about 0.2 mm. broad, subsessile, turbinate; leaflets 3-5 pairs, coriaceous, glabrous, shining, strongly irregularly pinnately reticulate-veined, oblong, or the upper pair oblongobovate, 5-10 mm. long, the apex obtuse or rounded, mucronulate; pedicels nearly filiform, puberulent, 1-2 cm. long, subulate-bracteolate ; sepals ovate, puberulent, obtuse or acutish, 5-7 mm. long; petals obovate, the longer ones 10-14 mm. long; legume linear, long-acuminate, 3-4 cm. long, 4-6 mm. wide, glabrate.
Type ix>calitv; Near Rinconada, Monterey. Nuevo Leon. Distribution: Nuevo Le6n; Tamaulipas.