110 LEGUMINOS£. (PULSE FAMILY.) 
bearded. Legume flattened. Seeds compressed, with a small and oval hilum. - 
— Twining herbs, with trifoliolate leaves, and axillary racemose flowers. 
1. D. multiflorus, Torr. & Gray. Perennial, pubescent; leaflets thin, — 
large, orbicular, abruptly acute ; racemes shorter than the leaves, many and - 
densely flowered at the summit of the stout peduncle; upper lip of the calyx 
entire; keel nearly straight ; legume 4.- 5-seeded. — Banks of rivers, near Mil- 
ledgeville, Georgia, and westward. June and July.— Stem 59-109 long. 
Leaflets 3' —6' in diameter. Flowers purple. Legume 2! long, J^ wide. 
37. PISCIDIA, L. Jamaica Doewoop. 
Calyx campanulate, 5-toothed. Keel obtuse. Vexillum rounded. Stamens 
diadelphous at the base, monadelphous above. Style filiform, smooth. Legume — 
stipitate, linear, contracted between the seeds, furnished with four membranaceous 
longitudinal wings. Seeds compressed. — Tropical trees. Leaves unequally- 
pinnate, Flowers in terminal panicles. 
1. P. Erythrina, L. Young branches, iaeia and panicle silky and 
hoary, at length smoothish; leaflets 7-9, oblong or obovate, abruptly acute, 
straight-veined, distinctly petiolulate; panicles axillary and terminal, many- 
flowered, shorter than the leaves; upper teeth of the calyx partly united; leg- - 
ume 6-seeded. — South Florida. March and April. —.A small tree. Leaves 
deciduous. Corolla white, lined with red veins. Legume 2! long, the broad 
wings wavy. 
38. BAPTISIA, Vent. 
Calyx campanulate, 4-cleft; the upper lobe broader and mostly emarginate. 
Vexillum roundish, with the sides reflexed ; wings and keel straight. Stamens 
10, distinct, shorter than the wings, deciduous. Legume stipitate, oval or ob- 
long, inflated, few-seeded, pointed with the persistent style. — Erect widely- 
branching perennial herbs. Leaves simple or palmately trifoliolate, withering- 
persistent. Stipules deciduous or persistent, rarely wanting. Flowers showy 
in terminal racemes, rarely axillary and solitary. 
* Leaves simple, sessile, or perfoliate. 
1. B. simplicifolia, Croom. Smooth; leaves large, sessile, broadly ovate, 
obtuse; stipules none; racemes numerous, terminal, many-flowered, sessile oF 
short-peduneled ; ovary villous and hoary; legume small, ovate, coriaceous, 
smooth. — Dry pine barrens near Quincy, Middle Florida. July.— Stem much 
branched, 2°-3° high. ——— Flowers rather small, yellow. uw 
Plant dries black. 
2. B. perfoliata, Brown. Smooth; € perfoliate, oval or orbicu- 
lar, glancous ; ‘stipules none; flower axillary, solitary; legume small, ovate; — 
coriaceous. — Dry sandy soil, in the middle districts of Georgia and South Car- — — 
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