FABACEAE 675 
Keel more than 1.5 cm. long: leaflets large (4-10 cm.) ; 
ades of an oblanceolate or elliptic type. 
Standard-blade broadly reniform: pod-body subglobose 
to globose-ovoid, somewhat ieu short-bea 6. B. lanceolata. 
Mis E blade orbicular-reniform : pod-body narrowly 
void or ellipsoid-ovoid, with lateral ridges, 
d. *. B. elliptica. 
e 
Calyx-lobes about as long as the Ule not foliac 8. B. LeContei. 
Calyx-lobes several times pedi Rer the tube, fonia casu S. 
Foliage glabrous or nearly : ealyx-lobes sparingly ciliate 
or ultimately eciliate. 9. B. calycosa. 
Foliage copiously hirsute: calyx-lobes permanently shaggy- 
ciliate. 10. B. hirsuta. 
IV. BRA TAE 
Plant with horizontal or nearly "nm pu the ra- 
cemes borne on the under side of the branches, sometimes 
nearly or a on the ground. 1. B. bracteata. 
V. ALBAE 
o e or yellow. 
Corolla yellow. 
i pubescent: ovary silky: pod decidedly acuminate. 12. B. villosa. 
Calyx glabrous, EE the ciliolate edges: ovary gla- 
brous: pod abruptly pointed. 
Pod ellipsoid or oval: corolla over 1.5 cm. long: 
blades of the leaflets mostly of an elliptic type. 13. B. megacarpa. 
Pod cylindraceous: corolla less than 1.5 em. long: 
ae of the leaflets of an ohovale or oblanceolate 
14. B. Serenae. 
Corolla ite. 
Corolla 1-1.5 D long: pod-body cylindraceous, 1 cm. 
thick or les 
Inflor Bee o Bis and pedicels pd nt. 15. B. albescens. 
Inflorescence-rachis and pedicels glabrous 16. B. alba. 
Corolla 2 cm. long or more: pod-body oval, between 1.5 
and em. ic k. 17. B. leucantha. 
Corolla blue. 18. B.australis. 
1. B. dese (L.) R. Br. Plant with several st tiff, ing branches 
less than 1 m. tall: leaves perfoliate, mostly vertical; blades DR. oval, 
or ovate, 5- long, both - 
-1.5 em. long, i beaked.— 
B GOPHER-WEED.) — Sandhills, Coastal 
Plain, C Fla. to S. C Spr Plants 
green. 
S I Croom. Plant 1 m. tall 
sually much-branched: leaves 
mE pos ovate v val, 3—10 
long, obtuse or E pd. at t apex, sessile. 
flowers in terminal racemes, p pedieelled, 
yellow: ealyx RM without; lower lobes narrowlv ovate; upper p broad, 
entire or minutely notehed: standard pu -reniform: ovary pubescent: pod- 
body ellipsoid or ovoid, less than 1 em. long, long-bea aked Seen ie EED.)— 
Pinelands, M Fla.—Sum.—Plants dry blac 
3 "4 microphylia Nutt. Plant tall or less, the d numerous Mind 
glabrous: leaves i E. xy fol cons stipules; lea 1-5 e ng, 
blades obo neate, or E pd elliptie: flowers s ellas ‘ to 3 3- foliolate 
or 1-foliol nrbis yellow x glabrous without; lower lobes deltoid or 
often pen than IW ide; upper io eee standard-blade suborbicular or wider 
han long: pod-body oval or subglobose, about 1 em. long or less, short-beaked. 
Sandhills, Coastal Plain, Fla. to Ala. and S. n s —sum.—-Plants dry green. 
