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Texas, Drummond ! — Branches somewhat ligneous, slender. Leaflets 

 2-3 inches long. Flowers red, about as large as in G. glabella. Keel fal- 

 cate, larger than the wings. Legume villous, 1-li inch long. Benih. 



§ Upper lip of the calyx ovate, subulate-mncronate : style short and rath- 

 er thick : Icguine oblong-linear ; leaves unequally pinnate. 



9. G.? ElUoltii (Nutt.) : leaflets 3-4 pairs, elliptical-oblong, nearly gla- 

 brous and lucid above, pubescent beneath; racemes longer than the leaves, 

 interrupted, few-flowered.— .V«^^ gen. 2. p. 117; Ell, sk. 2. p. 240; DC, 

 prodr. 2. p. 239. G. pinnata, Muhl. cat. p. 67, not of Pers. 



South Carolina, Elliott. Georgia, Le Conle ! Miss E. C. Clay I Near 

 St. John's, Florida, Mr. Doitbltday ! Pensacola, Mr. F. Cozzens ! May- 

 July. — Stem long and twining, slightly pubescent. Leaves 4-6 inches long: 

 leaflets 1-1^ inch long, mostly retuse, finely reticulated. Stipules minute, 

 subulate. Racemes usually much longer than the leaves ; the flowers 3-4 

 in a fascicle, rather larger than in G. glabella. Calyx hirsute; upper seg- 

 ment lanceolate, acuminate, about one-third longer than the lateral ones. 

 Corolla white tin:ied with red : vexillum orbicular, with scarcely any claw. 

 Wings and keel-petals equal, oblong ; the former with a subulate tooth at 

 the base of the limb. Legume about 2 inches long, and 4-5 lines wide, 

 villous. " Seeds 3-5, reniform, glabrous and speckled." Ell. 



Subtribe 4. ClitoriEjE, Benth. — Ovary with several ovules. Inflores- 

 cence axillary : peduncles 1-2-flowered at the summit, or many-flowered, 

 with the racemes often somewhat cymose-fasciculate or branching. Bracts 

 (except in Amphicarpaea) and bracteoles opposite, striate, either one or the 

 other often large (rarely small or wanting), Vexillum large, not appendicu- 

 late at the base. — Flowers commonly large. 



IL CLITORIA. Linn, (in part) ; GcBrtn. fr. t. 149 ; Benth, conim. Leg^ 



gen. p. 50, 



Calyx tubular, 5-cleft at the summit ; the upper and lateral segments tri- 

 angular-ovate, acuminate (the upper pair usually united a little higher than the 

 others), the inferior segment narrower. Vexillum large, somewhat orbicular, 

 emarginate or bifid, not spurred on the back : keel small, shorter than the 

 wings, incurved, acute, on very long claws. Stamens monadelphous below 

 the middle, the tenth filament usually free upwards. Style longitudinally 

 bearded or hairy, more or less dilated at the apex. Legume stipitate, linear 

 or linear-oblong, flattish, torulose, pointed with the base of the style, thicken- 

 ed along the sutures ; the valves nerveless and wingless. — Mostly twininf 

 perennial herbs. Leaves pinnately 3- (rarely 5-7-) foholate. Stipules some- 

 what persistent, sometimes striate : partial stipules setaceous. Peduncles 

 1-2- (or many-) flowered. Bracts similar to the stipules : bracteoles larger. 

 Flowers very large. 



The somewhat cyme-like inflorescence in Clitoria and the allied genera is very 

 frequently reduced to "2 flowers risins; from the apex of the peduncle : if the exterior 

 one be suppressed, as is sometimes the case, the solitary flower of course is resupi%. 

 Tiate, or stands with the keel (instead of the vexillum) looking towards the stem. 



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