116 Vail: Studies in tuf. Leguminosae 



been collected by Hall in Louisiana, in Salisbury, Maryland [Herb. 

 Canby] , and in Mississippi byW. L. McGee. 



15. Dolicholus Drummondii 



Rhyiuhosia toDicntosa Hook. & Arn. Comp. Bot. INIag. i : 23. 

 1835, Not Linn. 



Perennial, erect, densely velutinous-tomentose, 1.5-3 dm. high. 

 Stems auL^ded, a little undulate above : stipules lanceolate, acumi- 

 nate, becoming reflcxcd, caducous ; petioles 3-5 cm. long, angled 

 and velutinous : leaves 3-foliolate ; terminal leaflets oblong-lanceo- 

 late or a few of them oblong, ^-^ cm. long, 2-3 cm. wide, acute, 

 densely velutinous tomentose on both surfaces, silvery above, the 

 whole lower surface dotted with numerous orange-colored glands 

 beneath the tomentum and the prominent veins reticulated be- 

 neath ; lateral leaflets narrower, inequilateral, acute ; racemes sub- 

 sessile or very short pedunclcd : bracts 2.5 mm. long, linear- 

 setaceous, caducous : calyx 6 mm. long, foliaceous, tomcntulose 

 and ciliate, resinous-dotted, the upper lobe 2-toothed to consider- 

 ably below the middle : corolla included in the cal)-x, apparently 

 a deep orange -yellow color ; vcxillum round-ovate, the auricles at 

 the base rounded, minutely glandular-puberulent on the outer sur- 

 faces : legumes not seen. 



Louisiana: Covington, Drummond, 1832; North Carolina: 

 New Bern, Croom and Loomis, 1834. 



Very close to D. crcctuni from which it differs in the acute leaf- 

 lets, dense tomentum and somewhat smaller flowers. 



Type specimens in the Herbarium of Columbia Uni\ersity. 



16. Dolicholus mollissimus (Kll.) 



Glycine nwllissima Ell. Bot. 2 : 235. 1824. 

 Rliynchosia tomcntosa var. ? iiiollissiuia Torr. & Gray, FL N. 

 Am. I : 285. 1838. 



RJiyncJiosia mollissiina S. Wats. Biblio. Lid. i : 256. 1878. 

 Rhy)ichosia touicntosayw. crccta Chapm. Fl. 105. 1884. \\\ 



part. 



Stems erect, commonly simple, ^-6 dm. high, angled above, 

 not flcxuous, clothed with a close fine soft pubescence : stipules 6 

 mm. long, red-brown, lanceolate, acuminate ; leaves rather remote, 

 S-9 cm. long; petioles 2.5-5 cm. long; leaflets oval or oval-ob- 

 long, acutish, 2.4-4.5 cm. long, 2-3.5 cm. wide, minutely apicu- 

 late, obscurely emarginate, clothed with a short pubescence, es- 



