Chamaecrista flexuosa var. texana (Buckley) H. S. Irwin & Barneby

Chamaecrista texana (Buckl.j Pennell, Bull. Torrey Club 44: 343
1917.
Cassia texana Buckl. Proc. Acad. Phila. 1861: 452. 1862.
Caijia pTOci^mfecKi Pollard, Bull. Torrey Club 22: 516. 1895. Not L. 1753.
Perennial, the rhizome woody; stems ascending, slender, puberulent, 2-4 dm. long. Stipules triangular-ovate, cordate, acute, puberulent, faintly veined, 2-4 mm. long; petiolar gland sessile, minute, often wanting; leaflets 10-16 pairs, narrowly oblong to elliptic-lanceolate, 6-8 mm. long, about 1 mm. wide, rather strongly 3-4-nerved, acutish, pubescent, the costa very excentric; pedicels nearly filiform, puberulent, 2.5-5 cm. long; sepals ovate, acute, puberulent, 7-8 mm. long; petals 10-13 mm. long; legume linear, 3-4 cm. long, about 5 mm. wide, finely appressed-pubescent.
Type locality; Bastrop County, Texas. Distribution: Southern Texas.