“DIADELPHIA. DECANDRIA. 107 
Fated as it can be equally referred to either one-or the 
other. 
The South of Europe, Tartary and the Levant furnish 
the other 6 species of this genus. ; 
- 507. LESPEDEZA. Michaux. 
Calix 5-parted; bibracteate at the base, seg- 
ments subequal. Carina transversely obtuse. 
Loment lenticular, unarmed, 1-seeded. 
a 
Stem subligneous, annual, seldom suffruticose; leaves 
ternate, margin entire; stipules cauline, setaceous, partial 
ones wanting; flowers axillary and terminal, racemose, or 
spiked, spikes capitate, mostly pedunculate; rachis brac- 
teate, bractes trifid, 2-flowered; calix bibracteolate at the 
base. Flowers violet-purple or ochroleucous, the vexil- 
lum then marked with a purple spot. (These characters 
exist uniformly in 8 species which I have examined.) 
Species. 1. L. sessilifora. Erect and somewhat ramose; 
leaflets oblong-oval, obtuse; fascicles of flowers subsessile, 
axillary ones partly racemose; loment naked, acute. Has- 
Common from New York to Florida, and throughout the 
long-linear, strigosely beneath; fascicles of 
