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ry other Known species; stipules small, linear-lanceo- 
late, acute; legume small with a subulate point. Has. 
In North Carolina, principally upon the Catawba ridge, 
where it occurs abundantly in the open bushy forests. 7. 
“*leucophea. Dichotomous stem and nerves a little villous, 
___ leaves ternate, sessile, rhomboidally obovate; stipules and 
_ ‘Bractes ovate, acute, large and foliaceous; racemes late- 
ral, many-flowered; flowers secund; legume acuminated. 
Haz. In Georgia and Louisiana. (Abundant around St. 
Louis.) Somewhat allied to P. cerulea, but very distinct. 
A large species with ochroleucons flowers, in long and 
dense spikes, larger than those of any other North Ame- — 
ican species. Stem rather low but divaricate, leaves 2 
' _ 4nches. Jong and an inch broad, obtase. 8. tinctoria. So _ 
called from oat 3 been formerly em ployed as a substi- 
- tute for indigo, all the genus probably possess this pro- 
perty in different degrees, though there is something pe- 
¢culiar in the structure of this plant. Calix about 4-tooth- | 
ed, the 2 uppermost of the 5 cohering into one, wings 
- each furnished with a callosity at the lateral tooth. 
A North American genus; the simple leaved species of 4 
the Cape of Good Hope being alone retained in Podaly- 
long, in which particular it strikingly differs from eve- | 
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ort. Kew. 3. p. 3. 
Calix subcampanulate, half 4-cleft, the upper | 
segment truncate and emarginate. Corolla pa- | 
- pilionaceous, petals nearly equal in length; vex- | 
alum reflected at the sides; carina obtuse. Le- 4 
gZume compressed and falcate, attenuated at the © 
Pursb, Flor. Am. Sept. 2. p. 74 
-rennial i >” hol i or ci oh % inches 
~ sending up stems from 8 to 12 
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