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elawed. Wings M. keel-petals aurieled on 
one side. Pod thick. Seed thick.—About 
25 species, of warm and tropical regions. 
shore-hammocks, S pen. Fla. an e Keys, 
and S Tex.—(W. I.)—All year. 
. CLADRASTIS Raf. Trees. Leaves with obsolete stipules and many- 
foliolate blades. Panicles drooping. Calyx nearly tubular, about equally 
ed. Wings and keel-petals about equally 
ae. oblong. Pod flat, ee eee: 
Seed flat.—One species 
1. C. lutea (Michx.) Koch. pu becom- 
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ing 17 m. tall: leaves 2-4 dm. long; blades 
of the leaflets oval, elliptie, PR or sub 
orbieular any-flowered: ealy 
bluffs, various provinees “N of Coastal Plain, 
Ala. to Mo., Ky., and W N. C.—Spr.-sum.— 
ften grown for. ornament outside of its natural range. The hard, close- 
grained wood is used for various objects and yields a yellow dye 
3. THERMOPSIS R. Br. Perennial herbs. Leaves with large stipules 
and 3 leaflets. Calyx with an entire or slightly lobed upper lip and a 3-lobed 
lower lip. Corolla yellow or rarely purple: standard broad: blades of the 
wings and the keel-petals ovate, elliptic, or obovate, auricled on one side 
Style usually shorter than the ovary. Pod sessile or nearly so—About 20 
species, natives of North America and Asi 
Stem virgate: raceme dense, spike-like: pod erect and appressed : blades of the leaf- 
lets not rhombic. 1. caroliniana. 
Stem widely branched: raceme lax: pod spreading: blades of the 
leaflets somewhat rhombic. 
BEALE RH the pedicels during anthesis: calyx pubes- 
without. 
Pod "broadly linear ; stipe 1/5-1/6 as long as the body. 2. T. mollis. 
od narrowly li near ; stipe 1/10 as long as the body or 
3. T. Hugeri. 
Bracts shorter than the pedicels: calyx glaucous without. 4. T. fraxinifolia. 
T. caroliniana M. A. Curtis. Stem 6-16 dm. tall, often w tufted: 
blades of the leaflets oblanceolate to elliptie: raceme-rachis woolly: calyx 
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