or KORTH AMERICA. 85 



aurea Collins herb, not of Authors. Branches 

 fuscate siibangular and piiberulent, leaves with 

 many folioles sessile oblong obtuse nearly 

 smooth concolor, petiols pubescent, panicle ter- 

 minal foliose lax, peduncles 2-3flore — South 

 Florida and Cuba, a small tree, habit and leaves 

 like Amorpha and Virgjlia, folioles 21 to 25 half 

 uncial. Flowers in a lax compound raceme 

 forming a panicled thyrsus, small and yellow, 

 half size of Cladrastis. The podogyne is very 

 remarkable by its length and white hairs. I 

 add for contrast the real Virgilia aurea of 

 Africa. 



703. Virgilia aurea Lam. t. 326. f. 1. 

 Wild. Pers. Poiret Sm. Dec. Shrub, leaves 

 with many folioles petiolate elliptic obtuse 

 smooth glaucous beneath, raceme simple with 

 small lanceolate bracts, pods shortly stipitate 

 oblong compressed reticulate, seeds lenticular 

 — In Abyssinia in East Africa ! thus totaly un- 

 like our American plant and having the char- 

 acters of the African Virgilias, calix bilabiate, 

 petals unequal, 2 cariniform, a short smooth 

 stipes to the pod. Flowers golden, called white 

 by mistake in Poiret. 



704. AGASTIANIS Raf. Virgilia, Sophora, 

 and Broussonetia ! of Authors. Calix bilabi- 

 ate, lips 2 and 3 dentate, petals 5 unequal, vex- 

 illum oval emarginate larger, 4 oblong biauri- 

 culate at base, 2 connivent'cariniform. Stam. 

 10 unequal free persistent, pistil terete shortly 

 stipitate, a style, stigma obtuse. Pod oblong 

 tomentose convex on both sides. iShrub with 

 odly pinnate leaves^ floivers blue in simple 

 racemes with bracts — This fine shrub has been 

 shuffled in several Genera, I deemed it myself 



