Caesalpinia caudata (A. Gray) Fisher

Schrammia caudata (A. Gray) Britton & Rose
Hoffmanseggia caudata A. Gray. Best. Journ. Nat. Hist. 6: 179. 1850. Caesalpinia caudata E. M. Fisher. Bot. Gaz. 18: 123. 1893.
Stems slender, glabrous, 3-5 dm. high, the branches bearing a few black glands. Leaves glabrous; pinnae 3-9, the lateral pairs distant, 2-4 cm. long, of few pairs of leaflets, the terminal pinna 4-6 cm. long, with 9-11 pairs; leaflets broadly ovate, subcordate, chartaceous, 2.5-6 mm. long, acute, glabrous, sparingly black-glandular-dotted, strongly palmately and pinnately few-veined and sparingly reticulaled; racemes 2 dm. long, or shorter, glabrous, blackdotted; bracts ovate, membranous, 2 mm. long; pedicels spreading or ascending, glandular, 4-6 mm. long; calyx densely appressed-puberulent and glandular, 6-7 mm. long; petals about twice as long as the calyx; legume 2-4 cm. long, 10-17 mm. wide.
Type ixjcality: Between the Nueces and the Rio Grande. Texas. Distribution: Southwestern Texas and New Mexico.