¥16 DIADELPHIA. DECANDRIA. 
base; upper lip truncate, emarginate, lower 
equally trifid. Veaillum broad and vertical, 
the claw lined with an adnate membrane sepa- 
rating at its summit: wings adhering at the 
apex; subulately bidentate at the base; carina 
not reflecting the vexillum. Stipe of the Germ 
sheathed. Legume torulose, many-seeded. 
A twining shrub with pinnated leaves; flowers race- 
mose, unibracteate, bractes very large, imbricately enve- 
loping the flower buds, deciduous, and coloured; legume 
_ long and coriaceous; seeds large. 
‘Species. W. speciosa. Glycine frutescens. Willd. .2pios 
JSiutescens. Pu. 
Oxzs. Leaves pinnate in nines, ovate, pubescent. Flow- 
ers pale blue, very abundant, and nearly as large as those 
of the common Pea. Calix villous, naked at the base: 
Vexillum broader than long, marked with a central green 
spot just above the claw, almost perpendicularly reflect- 
ed, claw rigid and rather long, sheathed with an adnate 
-membrane, which evinces-its existence by a partial sepa- 
ration at the summit. Carina of 2 petals, incurved at the 
» point, but without reflecting the vexillum, the denture at 
the base of each subulate. Stigma capitate. Legume 1- 
celled. Seeds nearly as large as the smaller kind of Kid- 
 ney-beans, and also spotted, hence this shrub has receiv- 
» ed the common name of “ Carolina Kidney-bean tree.” 
"There appears to be a second species of this genus in — 
the alluvial forests of West Florida. 4 
518. GALACTIA. Brown. 
Calix 4-cleft, bibracteolate. Petals all oblong,. 
the vexillum broader and incumbent. Anthers 
oblong. Stigma obsolete. Stipe of the germ 
»  maked. Legume terete, many-seeded, 
et Species. 1.G. * pilosa, Every where softly and dense- 
Ty pilose; leaves ternate, partly oval, obtuse, paler be- 
. neath; racemes pedunculate, longer than the leaves; flow- 
