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lary branches after flowering. Lower stipules roundish 
and nearly as large as the leaves, common pa. nearly 
aninch long, exceeding the stipules in ength; leaves | 
aboutan inch long, and 1-2 an inch wide,scareely obtuse, | 
slenderly villous on the under side, smooth peanacieepuest 
subsessile, short and terminal,.3 or ‘45 é 
_ flowered; pedicells subverticillately owe 
 yellow,} stamina deciduous, at least in the fruit, aie ak car 
tilaginous cupulate torus alone. persistent. Leg 
pressed, falcate, about 3 inches in length, here and _ i 
“interrupted: by abortive portions, butnot articulated or 
intercepted, terminated by the persistent filiform style, 
‘with a minute and smooth stigma—Has. On denudated 
_ argillaceous hills near Fort Mandan. This plant is very 
closely allied to Sophora iupinoides of Pallas, Thermopets 
lanceolata of Brown, and they appear inseparable in ge- 
nus, that species when in perfection produces a long ver- 
ticillated spike of flowers; some of, Pallas’s ‘specimens, 
however, in the herbarium of A. B. Lambert, Esq. have 
a single verticill of flowers only as in the starved speci- 
bE in the Botanical Magazine, in this species j 
Fez the leaves are on both sides closely covered with a silky 
ae ‘villous; the primary leaves it appears occur sometimes 
simple but ‘dae accempays by the stipules after 
manner of Baptisia. 
402, CERCIS. L. (Judas-tree, Red-bud ye 
Calix 5-toothed, the lower part gibbons. 
Corolla papilionaceous, lateral petals or wings 
larger than the vexillum; carina dipetalous. 
Legume compressed. _ ** Seminiferous suture 
‘marginated. ae pages —Brown. a qe 
3. -VIRGILIA. Sauk “Persoon. R. Brown. 
) a 5-cleft. Corolla papilionaceous, oe 
nearly equal i in a aiden of the veillum not no 
