Vor, IL.] SENNA FAMILY. "261 
1. Gymnocladus dioica (L.) Koch. 
Kentucky Coffee-tree. (Fig. 2043.) 
Guilandina dioica 1. Sp. Pl. 381. 1753. 
Sea CEMS Canadensis Lam. Encycl. 1: 733. 
eenonindusdioicus Koch, Dendrol. 1: 5. 1869. 
A large forest tree, with rough bark, maxi- 
mum height about 100°, and trunk diameter 
of 3°. Leaves large, bipinnate, petioled; 
pinnae 5-9, odd or evenly pinnate; leaflets 
7-15 (or the lowest pair of pinnae of but a 
single leaflet), ovate, acute or acuminate at 
the apex, rounded at the base, glabrous or 
pubescent on the veins beneath, ciliate on the 
margins, 1-3 long; racemes many-flowered. 
elongated; flowers nearly white, slender- 
pedicelled, 8/’/-9’’ long; pod 5/-10’ long, 
about 2’ wide, the valves thick and coria- 
ceous. 
Rich woods, southern Ontario to Pennsylvania, 
Tennessee, Minnesota, Nebraska and the Indian 
Territory. Wood soft, strong, light reddish- 
brown; weight per cubic foot 43 lbs. The fruit 
called Coffee-nut. May-June. 
Family 48. KRAMERIACEAE Dumort. Anal. Fam. 20. 1829. 
KRAMERIA FAMILY. 
Pubescent herbs, or low shrubs, with alternate simple or digitately 3-foliolate 
leaves, and purple or purplish, solitary or racemed, irregular perfect flowers. 
Peduncles 2-bracted at or above the middle. Stipules wanting. Sepals 4 or 5, 
usually large, the outer one commonly wider than the others. Petals usually 5, 
smaller than the sepals, the 3 upper ones long-clawed, often united by their 
claws, or the middle one of the 3 wanting, the 2 lower ones reduced to suborbi- 
cular fleshy glands. Stamens 3 or 4, monadelphous, at least at the base; anther- 
sacs opening by a terminal pore. Ovary 1-celled, or partly 2-celled; ovules 2, 
collateral, anatropous, pendulous; style slender, acute or truncate. Fruit glo- 
bose, or compressed, spiny, indehiscent, 1-seeded. Seed without endosperm; 
cotyledons fleshy. 
The family consists of only the following genus, with about 15 species, distributed from”the 
southern United Statesto Chile. It has often been included in the PoLtyGALaceag, but its close 
affinity to Cassia and related genera indicates that it should be placed next to the CAESALPINACEAB. 
1. KRAMERIA Loefl. Iter Hisp. 195. 1758. 
[In honor of Johann Georg Heinrich Kramer, an Austrian physician of the last century. ] 
1. Krameria secundiflora DC,  Ljnear- 
leaved Krameria. (Fig. 2044.) 
Krameria secundiflora DC. Prodr. 1: 341. 1824. 
A perennial appressed-pubescent herb from a 
thick woody root, the stems prostrate or ascending, 
branched, often 1° long or more. Jeaves numer- 
ous, linear, linear-lanceolate or linear-oblong, ses- 
sile, simple, entire, about 1/ long, %4//-2/’ wide, 
acute, tipped with a minute prickle; peduncles soli- 
tary, axillary, 1-flowered, sometimes secund, as 
long as the leaves, or shorter, bearing 2 leaf-like 
bracts just below the flower; flowers about 1/ broad, 
the sepals purple within, pubescent without; claws 
of the 3 upper petals united; stamens 4, monadel- 
phous; fruit globose, pubescent, very spiny, about 
14’ in diameter. 
: Florida to Kansas, New Mexico and Mexico. April- 
une, 
