DIADELPHIA. DECANDRIA, 117 
ers subsessile; tegumes villous; stem twining. Has. In 
Carolina and Georgia. 
2. mollis. Sofily villous: leaves ternate, mostly oval 
and obtuse, paler beneath, above smooth; racemes pe- 
dunculate, a little longer than the leaves; flowers pedi- 
cellate; calix acuminate; mes compressed, pubescent; 
} stem twining. Has. In Carolina and Georgia. vo s. In 
| Herb. Muhl. confornded with G. giabella, but more near- 
— to G. pilosa. SMedysarum voludile, Willd. 3. p. 
1204. 
3. glabella. Nearly smooth; leaves ternate, elliptic-ob- 
long, subcoriaceous and lucid, at either extremity emar- 
finaie; racemes pedunculate, a little shorter than the 
leaves; flowers pedicellate; calix and legume smooth; 
stem prostrate. Han. In arid soils from New Jersey to 
Carolina. (Abundant in New Jersey, about 3 miles from 
Philadelphia.) Calix acuminate; flowers reddish, consi- 
derably larger than in the 2 preceding; vexillum exter- 
nally green; style long and nearly straight, exserted. 
Germ villous. Tes Pe o pe 
4, * Eliottii: Leaves pinnate, 3 pair (7), leaflets i= 
aceous, oblong-elliptic, muc e, smooth and lucid, 
inate at either extremity; racemes pedunculate, 
ve oie. owared: shorter than the leaves; twining stem 
calix smooth. Has. In South Carolina.—S. Elliott, 
Esgr. Apparently distinct from G. pinnata of Persoon, 2. 
p. 302. The whole plant almost absolutely smooth, ex- 
cepting the leaf-buds which appear silky; stipules and 
bractes after the manner of the genus minute and deci- 
duous. Leayes nearly the same color on both sides. Ca- 
lix rather deeply 4-cleft, segments lanceolate, acuminate. 
Corolla pale red; vexillum broader than usual, roundish. 
Fruit —? 
Of this small genus there are 2 other species indige- 
nous to the West Indies, and k to the isle of Bourbon. 
519. CLITORIA. L. 3 
‘and par- 
more 2 flow eed, 
