128 DIADELPHIA. DECANBRIA. 



mote, leaflets cuneate-oval, very obtuse, and on eitlieT 

 side villous (13 lo 15); peduncles opposite to, and about 

 the length of the leaves, mostly 3-fio\vered. Hab. In 

 tieorgia and Florida —Dr. Buldwyn. Stem 2 feet, in the 

 specimen before me producing only 5 leaves, a span apart, 

 pubescence partly ft- rruginou;., on the stem and petioles 

 double, one kind more dense and short like tliat of the 

 leaves, the other pilose and spreading; leaf 4 or 5 inches 

 lonp;, leaflets an inch, and about 5 lines broad; flowers 

 purple. 



5. * proRt-ata. Gnlega vHIo^a. Mich. 2. p. 67- T. cAr_y- 

 sophjUa- Th. 2. p. 489. Stem prostrate and pubescent; 

 leaves pinnate, subsessile, quinate and ternate, leaflets 

 cuncate-oboval, coriaceous, smooth above, sericeously vil- 

 lous beneath; peduncles about o-flowercd, opposite to, 

 and longer tlian the leaves; legume linear, and nearly 

 straight. Hab. Common around Savannah in Georgia, in 

 dry and sand\ woods. Michaux's name is necessarily al- 

 tered in consequence of another species having been be- 

 fore named villosa. 



This genus of more than 40 species is principally indi- 

 genous to India, the Cape of Good Hope, and tropical 

 America. Its affinity to Indigofera is considerable, and 

 T. tinctoria of Ceylon aiibrds Indigo. 



5Z^. TRIGONELLA. /.. (Fenugretk.) 



Vexillum and wings subi^qtial, spreading, in 

 the form of a trip'-talous corolla. Legume often 

 arcuate and mostly compressed. 



Herbaceous, (often annual); leaves ternate; stipules cau- 

 line, small; flowers axillary and terminal, solitary, subses- 

 sile, or in a pedticulate spike or umbell. 



Species. 1 T. * americana. Legume long and pedun- 

 culate, solitary, linear, and compressed; flowers unibrac- 

 teate; leaflets entire, oblong, acute, and villous; stipules 

 obsolete. Hab. On the dry and open alluvial soils of the 

 Missouri, from tlie river Platte to the Mountains. Lotus 

 sericeue- Ph. 2. p. 489. Obs. Annual: stem erect, and 

 about 1 foot high, sparingly branched above. Leaves ter- 

 nate and sessile, softly pubescent, lateral leaflets oblique, 

 the central one oblong-elliptic, pe^iolate; stipules scarcely 

 visible. Peduncle 1-flowered, longer than the leaf; flow- 

 er subtended by a foliaceous bracte; calix deeply cleft, 

 almost the length of the corolla; segments linear and 

 acute. Vexillum and wings nearly equal. Legume smooth. 



