104 FABACEAE 
soil and waste-places, Coastal Plain, Fla. to Tex. and N. C.—Su TE 
introduced.— n ir y —A very vigorous annual. The firm woody stems, some- 
tim arge colonies, with the bladdery pods dangling from Ta. 
PE o eae the winter. 
30. DAUBENTONIA DC. Shrubs or trees. Leaflets numerous. Race 
several-flowered. Calyx minutely 5-lobed and scarcely 2-lipped. Corolla s 
to crimson and vermilion: standard with an orbicular-reniform blade: wings 
and keel-petals not auricled. Pod relatively long, the body winged.—About 5 
species, mostly American. 
Calyx-lobes acute: corolla yellow : keel- petals with the blades abruptly narrowed into 
the claw : pod long-stipitate. 1. D. Drummondii. 
Calyx-lobes, except the lower one, obtuse: corolla deep-rose to 
crimson: keel-petals with the blades tapering into the claw: 
pod short-stipitate. 2. D. punicea. 
D. Drummondii Rydb. Shrub: leaflets 12-60; blades narrowly elliptie to 
s -elliptic, 1-2.5 em. long, mucronate: calyx x-lobes acute: racemes loosely 
flowered, ao slender: standar ica de 15- 
nd 
Coastal Leth ES to Tex.—(Mez.)—Spr.—- 
. D. punicea (Cav.) DC. Shrub or small 
tree: leaflets 12-40: blades linear-elliptie, 
ud the stipe Bun than 1 cm. lo 
[.Sesb a punicea th.]— ( PURPLE- -SESBAN. )—Waste-places, roadsides, and 
eee Sine Coastal Plain, Fla. to La. Nat. of trop. Am.—(S. A.)—Spr.—fall. 
31. CRACCA L. Perennial hd -rooted herbs or woody plants. Leaflets 
several or many, thick. Flowers in racemes or spike-like panicles. Calyx 
somewhat 2-lipped, the upper e usually pora than the others and 
partialy united. Corolla pink, purple, or red, or white: standard pubescent: 
wings aurieled on one side at the base of the blade: keel- aa usually with 
an angular auricle. Pod flat or flattish. [Tephrosia Pers. OARY-PEAS. 
About 130 species, natives of warm and tropical regions.—Sum. or spr.—fall S. 
Stem monopodial: panicles terminal and m not opposite the leaves. 
Leaflets 11—37 ; blades of an elliptic tpye I. VIBGINIANAE. 
Leaflets 3-11; blades of an obovate type. II. RUGELIANAE. 
Stem sympodial : panicles theoretically terminal, but appar- 
ently opposite the leaves, by the development of a 
etioles very short, 3 mm. long or less. III. CHRYSOPHYLLAE. 
Petioles longer, 5 mm. long or more. 
Corolla more than 12 mm. long. IV. SPICATAE. 
Corolla less than 12 mm. long. V. PURPUREAE, 
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