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the wings and keel, may occur east of the Mississippi River. Subterranean 
l- or 2-seeded pods are often produced after the manner of the peanut of com- 
merce. These are known as HOG-PEANUTS.—Sum. 
BRADBURYA Raf. Vines. Leaflets 3, or 5 or 7. Racemes few- 
d Bu 2-lipped, the upper lip shorter than the lobes of the lower lip, 
which are much longer than the tube. Corolla pink, blue, violet, or white: 
blade of Ga standard suborbicular or reniform spurred above the b on th 
outside: wings and keel-petals with short claws, the blades of the latter 
strongly curved, narrower than those of the former, and with a prominent 
auricle at the base. Pod elongate, long-beaked, its margins thickened. [Cen- 
trosema Benth.|—About 30 species, Ameriean.—BUTTERFLY-PEAS.— The corol- 
las of our species are mainly violet. 
Lateral lobes of the lower culvedin as long as the median one: upper lobes erdt 
bracts acuminate. 1. B. virginiana. 
Lateral lobes of the lower calyx-lip much ET than the median 
one: upper lobes lanceolate: bracts acu 
Blades s the leaflets cordate or SUbcordHte “at the base: lateral 
lobes the lower calyx-lip much longer than the lobes of 
the u nae li 2. B. arenicola. 
. Blades of the leaflets rounded at the base: lateral lobes of the 
lower calyx-lip about as long as the lobes of the upper lip. 3. B. floridana. 
1. B. virginiana (L.) Kuntze. en 3—11 em. long; blades linear, ads 
narrowly so and elongate, to ovate, hor distinet sealloped marginal vein 
S e 
lower ones, like the lateral ones of the lower 
lip, setaceous-subulate: blade of the stand- 
ard 21-25 mm. wide or "uds pir Mies 
linear, 7—14 em. long, 3.5 wide: seed 
ellipsoid- -eylindrie 2.5—3 "y long. "[C. 
nth.]— “Pinelands, hammocks, 
odd “fields, or serub, usually in acid soil, 
Coastal Plain and adj. provinces, Fla. to 
Tex., Ark., and N. J. 
2. B. arenicola Small. Leaflets 2-5 em. (-~>\; 
long; blades e to elliptie-ovate, retuse, |——wW 
blun t, or minutely apiculate at the apex, ZN 
rN or subcordate p) the base: bracts ~ 
vate: upper ea uch sho ter than 
the lower one, its lobes and the lateral lobes of the lower lip lanceolate: blade 
of the standard 25-30 mm. wide: pod not seen.—Pinelands, C pen. Fla.—Sum 
3. B. floridana Britton. Plant similar to B. arenicola in habit: leaflets 2-8 
em. long; blades laneeolate to oval, obtuse or acutish at the apex, rounded at 
the base: bracts ovate: calyx similar to that of B. arenicola, but somewhat 
smaller, but the corolla larger: pod 8-15 em. long, 5-6 mm. wide; seed sub- 
eylindrie, 6—7.5 mm. long.—Pinelands, Fla. 
54. CLITORIA L. Vines. Leaflets several. Racemes or panicles 1-sev- 
eral-flowered. Calyx 2-lipped, the lobes of the upper lip partly united, 
resembling the lateral lobes of the lower lip, but often shorter. Corolla blue, 
purple, red, or white: standard erect, the blade suborbicular: blades of the 
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