234 DECANDRIA. DIGYNIA. 
reflected. Stigma beardless. Legume compress- 
ed, oblong, many-seeded.—R. Brown. Hort. 
Kew. 3. p. 4. 
- A small genus of trees or shrubs, with pinnated leaves 
and flowers in erector pendulous racemes, which are 
_. yellow, white or blue. - Probably not a natural group. 
wie Specizs. 1. V. lutea. Racemes pendulous, legumes 
_ flat and petiolate; flowers yellow. A tree whose bark af- 
- fords a yellow dye, similar to V. aurea. The whole tree 
- except in the colour of its flowers, strongly resembles 
Robinia Pseudacacia. An occidental tree, hitherto found 
only in the mountains of Tennessee. 
this genus there are 2 species at the Cape of Good 
Hope, 1 which is shrubby in New Spain, and 1 called V. 
aurea in Abyssinia. _ ea = 
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404. HYDRANGEA. L. x 
 _ Calix superior, 5-toothed pent. - Petals 5. 
Capsule mostly 2-celled, striate, opening betwixt 
the persistent styles by a terminal foramen. 
Seeds many, longitudinally striate. 
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