720 FABACEAE 
blade not T keel- -petals 9-6 mm. long: pod 2.5-4 cm. long—Pinelands, 
mps, and river-banks, Coastal Plain, Fla. to N. C.—Su m—G. mollis Nashit 
Vail has stem ou lightly pubescent. 
14. G. Elliottii Nutt. Stem retrorse-hirsute (or silky in G. Elliottii Leaven- 
worth E & G.): leaves evergreen or near y so; leaflets 2-3 em. long; blad 
elliptic: calyx 7-10. mm. long; the upper lip 'and pi Ka s ‘conspicuously 
2 nge er than the Bis. lobes: Ga 11-13 mm keel-petals 10-12 
long: pod elliptic, 3—4 long.—Low pinelunds, Coastal Plain and 
cae ain adj. provinces, Fla. p? Tenn. and N. C.—Sum 
ola PUERARIA DC. Woody vines. Leaflets 3. Panicles raceme-like, 
te tu 
: : 
and keel-petals with rather short claws. Ovary short-stipitate. Pods flat, nar- 
row, rather long.—About 10 species, Asiatic. The following is widely cul- 
tivated. | 
1. P. por Mie ces (S. & Z.) Benth. Stem and branches hirsute, becoming 
D and glabrous, E. Kn uA eer ets 3-6. inches long; pi 
mbic or ‘ovate-rhombic les 
lobed. abruptly acumi a short peticluled; 
pani nicles short-peduncled, r e-like, ostly 
1-2.5 dm. long; Saab pedicelle; f hubs 
campanulate, ; rple- 
tinged ; lobes Ae than Ts tube, Ehe E; 
lower lobe the longer: corolla main inly dull 4 
dice ded ple; standard about 2 em. long, 
e blade suborbicular, with a "rellow ‘blotch 
at "the base: blades of the dari iud eas 
than the claws: pod linear, 4-5 c 
e 
shaggy-pubescent.—(KUupzu E — = : 
sides, fence-rows, and woods, 2l T 
inces, E U. S. ge neum Nat. of 
Su 
52. PALCATA Gmel. Herbaceous vines. Leaflets 3. -Racemes or pani- 
cles several-many-flo -flowered. Calyx 2-lipped, upper lip broader than the 
lobes of the lowe r ap which are shorter than the tube. Corolla not showy, blue, 
1. F. comosa (L.) Kuntze. Leaflets 3-10 
em. long; pus m to ovate-lanceolate: 
calyx 6-8 ong; upper lip deltoid; 
lower lobes ace d -subulate, less than 
lo as long as the tube: blades of the keel- 
D much E orter than the claws: pod 
Nutt. ]— 
Meadows, ‘thickets, and en or damp Minn 
us provinees, Fla. to Eu ebr., l 
Ms um.—F. Pitcheri, origi described from Ark., 
the longer RE lobes and shorter iem (lightly longer than the ae of 
