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DIADELPHIA DECANDRIA. 



197 



** Spicis ci/Undri^ 



ds^melilotoidecu (Pou 

 kmlenia.) 



3. ViRGATA. Nutt. 



** Spikes cylindru 



ccd, resemhling 

 lotus. 



Mell 



» 



P. caiile virgalo 



? 



Stem virgate^some. 



subpiibescente ; foliis whatpiibescentjleaves 

 simplicibiis^ clistanti- simple^ distant^ lin- 

 bus^ lineari-lanceola- ear lanceolate; spikes 

 tis; spicis axillaribus, ) axillary/ sborter than 

 foliis brevioribus. 



Nutt. 2. p. 104. 



the leaves. 



Stem about 2 feet liigh, sparingly branched. Radical hams oblong, 

 ovate; leaves of the stem on petioles nearly an inch long, very narrow, 

 glabrousj 3 — 5 inches long, scarcely more than two or three lines wide. 

 flowers in compact cylindrical spikes, the naked base of the common pe- 

 duncle scarcely longer than the petiole. Bractcas ovate, acuminate, de- 

 ciduous, and like the calyx dotted with ghands. Calyx 5-cIeft. Corolla 

 violet colom*ed, a little larger than the calyx. Legtme 1 -seeded. 



Discovered by Dr. Baldwin near St. Mary's, Georgia, and sent to rae 

 under the name of P. An^ustilblia. 



Flowers. 



4. M 



ELILOTOIDES. Mlcll. 



P. parce pubescens; 



foliis 



ternatis, 



folio- 



lis oblongo-lanceolatis; 

 spicis oblongis ; brae 



Sparingly pubes 



cent 



J 



leaves ternate 



leaflets 



oblong J 



Ian 



y 



ceolate ; spikes ob 



teis lato-cordatis. Ion- long ; bracteas broad, 



acnminatis; cordate^ conspicuous 



gissime 



^guminibus rotunda 



t^s, nei 



acuminate 



mis. 



'voso-rugosissi 



; po d's 

 round, nervose, very 



^IJch. 2. p. 58. Pursh 2. p. 475. 

 1 niolium psoralioides. 



rugose. 



Walt. p. IS 4. 



^oot 



\y 2 r perennial ? Stem herbaceous, diffuse, braxichin?, pubescent, near- 

 ed ^h '^^* ^^^^"^^ ternate, pubescent, rounded at base and pupctur- 

 with glandular dots. S/ikes axillary and terminal, on peduncles 



