DIADELPHIA. DECANDRIA. Si 
Europe affords but 6, South and tropical America as far 
as Buenos Ayres 24, Barbary and the Levant 4, Siberia 
2, Guinea 2, the Cape of Good Hope produces 24, many 
of them ornamental shrubs, India and China 13, 1 in 
Japan, 1 in Arabia Felix, and several others of uncertain 
locality. Several distinct genera appear to be confounded 
in Polygaia, which ought to claim the attention of Bota- 
nists. 
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1V.—DECANDRIA. 
{ Stamina all connected, (or monadelphous.) 
490. AMORPHA. L. . 3 
Calix » 5-cleft. Vexillum of 
=_" the corolla o ve. Wings (or lateral 
as petals) and carina none. Legume small, 1 or 
| 2-seeded, curved at the point. 
Suffruticose or shrubby plants; leaves pinnate, glandu- 
lar; stipules setaceous, minute, both general and partial, 
distinct from the leaves and leafiets; flowers "samen 
and. ie 
nee 
s. 1. A. fruticosa, Only one. bia calicine di 
ated. 2. * nana T.N. in. Fras. Catal. 1813, 
-y low, and nearly smooth; leaflets subovate-el- 
onulate and smooth; spikes solitary and aggre- 
ers pedicellate; dentures of the calix all seta- 
acuminate; lesume l-seeded. .4. 
Has. On the woodless and grassy hills 
ft e i, from the river Platte to the Mountains, 
_ This 
rope C y up- 
Jand ently saree of withstanding the pecu- 
Harities — climate. eat clog va Low ie 
erbaceo so ets oblong-e alga 
