FABACEAE 695 
braets ie sparingly glandular: ealyx-lobes seen hairy: corolla white or 
ye oy wish, or pin E deeper; disnei: 4—5 mm. lon ng, the blade po 3 
wide: stamens FOE about 2 mm. long, as w wide s long. [P. domin- 
gensis dis Lv S.)]— EE and adj. pinelands, Everglade Keys, pen. 
22. TALOSTEMON Miehx. Herbs. Leaflets few or numerous. Spikes 
dense. rus -lobes broad, or broad at the base. Standard with a short broad 
blade. Filaments united to above the middle. Pod short, Poi included in 
the calyx.—About 50 species, North Ameriean.—Some of the species are very 
showy when in flower and are frequently to be seen in gardens. 
Calyx glabrous, or the lobes merely ciliate. 
Cauline leaves with 3-11 leaflets. 
Sn rd-blade elliptie to orbicular : calyx not strongly 
e I. CARNEI. 
Standard: blade cordate or reniform: calyx strongly 10- 
ribbe II. CANDIDI. 
leaves with 11-37 leaflets. IIl. FOLIOSI. 
Calyx densely pubescent, at least on the angles and the lobes. IV. PURPUREI. 
l I. CARNEI 
Spikes ellipsoid or cylindric: bracts nearly or quite as long as the 
hite. 
m and elongate branches decumbent : leaves remote, 
clu Aa shorter than the internodes: spikes Ra . 
ously bracted, the bracts about equalling the LL 1. P. gracilis. 
Stem and branches erect or ascending: leaves more n 
ous, usually equalling the internodes, with CIUS B Bet 
ondary ones in their axils: spikes conspicuously bracted, 
bs o exceeding the calyces. 
Corolla ros ep-pink. 
Spikes oe bracts much shorter than the calyx. 
P. albidus. 
P. carneus. 
P. Feayi. 
PHN 
IT. 
Conspicuously leafy plant, with narrowly cylindric spikes, the 
main one Qm elongate, the bracts with dilated bodies and 
slender tip 5. P. candidus. 
III. Fou 
Copiously leafy plant, with stout cclindvic PT the bracts 
slightly B Ded above the stipe-like base and terminated by 
caudate 6. P. foliosus. 
IV. PUR 
Calyx appressed-pubescent : spikes compact pere with narrow 
bases and pubescent acuminate 7. P. purpureus. 
CRI loosely pubescent: spikes not Compact: bracts with broad 
ases and caudate pubescent “tip . P. Gattingeri. 
. P. gracilis Nutt. Plant 3-6 dm. tall: 2e = 7; blades linear or linear- 
elliptic, or rarely elliptic-oblanceolate, 6--1 ong: ea HUN: acute, about 
14 ] s the tube: standard about a 
mm. long; blad bovate te 
id s acis or nearly so: pod less 
long, glabrous. LO pine- 
jands, cud Plain, Fla. to Miss.—Spr.- 
2. P. albidus (T. & G.) Small Plant 6—10 
dm. tall: leaflets 5—7; blades elliptie to 
oblanceola te, 4-8 mm. "long, acute: calyx- 
e: 
eo 
orbieular- dcl pec gynoecium Pid 
cent: pod over 2 long, pubescent. 
Dry sand. and pinelands Coastal Plain, Fla., 
Ala. and Ga.—Sum 
