52 ^ORTH AMERICAN 



340. Eaplosia ovata Raf. Baptisia simpli- 

 cifolia Croom and Torrey, and Nuttal '( pi. rar. 

 51. stem flexuose striate, leaves broad ovate 

 quite sessile, base rounded, end obtuse or re- 

 tuse, raceme spiked, bracts ovate acute longer 

 than the short pedicels — in West Florida, dis- 

 covered by Croom, specimen sent me by Tor- 

 rey, sesquipedal, subramose above, leaves large 



3 inches long 2 wide, raceme subterminal 3 or 



4 inches long, flowers forming a spike by short 

 peduncles, calix canescent inside, teeth large 

 ovate, petals dull yellow. Nuttal states his 

 specimen to have had oval rhomboidal leaves, 

 thus nearer the next and perhaps a variety, 

 rhomhoidea. 



341. Eaplosia longifolia Raf. stem flex- 

 uose sulcate, leaves oblong, elliptic subrhom- 

 boidal, base attenuate semiamplexicaule, end 

 obtuse rounded — sent me from Alabama with- 

 out flowers, but evidently akin to the last, leaves 

 of same color and texture, minutely nervose re- 

 ticulate above lucid blackish, beneath dull fus- 

 cate ; but shape quite different larger 5 or 6 

 inches long, only 2 wide in the middle where 

 swelled, both ends attenuated, and base a little 

 decurrent. 



342. DREPILIA Raf. calix campanulate 

 subequal 5fid. petals pupilionaceous subequal, 

 vexillum revolute, stamens 10 free, style filiform 

 stigma minute smooth, pod substipitate falcate 

 compressed acuminate moniliform polysperm. 

 Perennial, leaves petiolate trifoliate stipulate, 

 jloicers racemose siibverticillate yellow — this 



Genus has been improperly united to Ther- 

 mopsis of R. Bruon which has calix bilabiate, 

 pod linear strait &:c, a Siberian Gr. based on So- 

 phora fabacea. Drepilia derives from little 

 scythe. It is very akin to Sjisinia. 



