54 Baptisia tinctoria. 
Nat. Syst. Juss. Leguminose. Classis XIV. Ordo XI. 
Nat. Ord. Lin. Papilionacee, 
Artific, Syst. Lin. Classis Decandria. Ordo Monogynia. 
Calix half 4 or 5-cleft, bilabiate. Corolla papilionaceous, petals nearly equal in length ; 
~-yexillum laterally reflected. Stamina deciduous. Legume ventricose, pedicellate, 
many-seeded.—Brown Hort. Kew. 3. p. 5. 
Baptista tinctoria; glaberrima, ramosissima, microphylla; foliis ternatis subsessili- 
bus, foliis cuneato-obovatis rotundato-obtusis, stipulis obsoletis oblongis acutis 
petiolo multoties brevioribus, racemis spicatis terminalibus; leguminibus ovatis 
longo-stipitatis.—Willd. and Pursh. 
Very glabrous and much branched, small-leaved; leaves ternate, subsessile, 
folioles cuneate-obovate, round, obtuse; stipules obsolete, oblong-acute, much 
shorter than the petiole; racemes spiked, terminal; legumes ovate, on long 
footstalks.—Bart. Comp. FI. Ph. 
SYNONYMA. 
Sopnora tinctoria. Sp. Pl. 534, 
Popatyria tinctoria. Mich., Lam., and Wild. 
PHARM. 
Barris tinctoriez, Radix et Herba. . 
Tue subject of this article was originally referred by Linnzus to 
the extensive genus Sophora. Michaux, Lamarck, Willdenow, and 
others, assigned it a place under the genus Podalyria: and more re- 
cently it has been placed by Brown and Ventenant, as a species of 
