LEGUMINOSjE. (pulse FAMILY.) 97 
,, 1 Nutt - Racemes nodding; bracts shorter 
than the pedicels; calyx-teeth short and broad. — Rich woodlands. 
Aug., feept. — A delicate wood-vine, with pale purplish or whitish 
blossoms, two or more from each bract, which evidently consists of a 
pair of opposite bracts united. Underground pods hairy, often very 
^' t'bITORIA, Ii. Butterfly Pea. 
Calyx tubular, 5-toothed. Standard much larger than the rest 
of the flower, rounded, notched at the top, not spurred on the 
back : keel small, shorter than the wings. Stamens monadel- 
phous below. Pod linear-oblong, flattish, knotty, several-seeded, 
pointed with the base of the style, the valves nerveless. — Erect 
or twining perennials, with mostly 3 stipulate leaflets, and very 
large flowers. Peduncles 1 - 3-flowered: bractlets opposite 
striate. 
, C# ^ a ^na, L. Smooth; leaves oblong-ovate : stipules 
seeded^ Drv h Sl T d i ; ^T' 08 8h ° rt; P ° da Bh °rt-stalked, 4-8- 
-LotlseeL ’ L ° n S. Island and Jersey southward. July. 
2'long S ° r * Wming: theshow y P^e blue-purple flowers 
8. CENTROSiMA, DC. Spurred Butterfly Pea 
C alyx short, S-deft. Corolla, &c„ much as in Clitoria, but 
he standard with a spur-shaped projection on the hack. Pod 
ong and linear, flat, pointed with the awl-shaped style manv 
see e d t hlcke d at the edges> the vakes ^ ££ 
Sate 7T baatgin- Twining perennials: leaflets 3, sti- 
Late the lltt ge i 7 1°"'™' StipuleS ’ braC,S > and bractle ‘ s 
striate, the latter longer than the calyx. (Name from «Wpop o 
spur, and ai\\xa, the standard.) P ’ 
1- c. Virglniana, Benth. Rather rough with minute hairs 
leaflets varying ftom oblong-ovate to linear, very veiny “nv n ’ 
W()u-l' S N 4 ' dowered; calyx-teeth linear-awl-shaped. — Sandy dry 
vio°et S ’nnh W ^ ? 8 °" ,hward - Jul J- - Corolla scarcely 1- long 
"olet, pubescent externally. Pods straight and narrow, 4'-5< long 
hardy 5 ,^cuhiv 11 ,"^ 01 ^’ & ShrUbby cIimber ° f the South . which is 
Pennsylvania. 38 D ° rth “ Boston » is t0 be sought in W. 
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