336 PAPILIONACEAE. (Vor. I. 
2. Galactia voldbilis (L.) Britton. Downy Milk Pea. (Fig. 2229.) 
Hedysarum volubile 1, Sp. Pl. 750. 1753- 
Galactia mollis Nutt. Gen. 2: 117. 1818, Not 
Michx. 1803. 
Galactia pilosa Ell. Bot. S. C. & Ga, 2: 238. 1824. 
Not Nutt. 1818. 
Galactia volubilis Britton, Mem. Torr. Club, 5: 
208. 1894. 
Finely downy-pubescent all over, similar in 
general aspect to the preceding species. Leaf- 
lets ovate, elliptic, or oval, obtuse or acutish, 
sometimes emarginate at the apex, rounded or 
slightly cordate at the base, downy beneath, 
usually with some appressed pubescence above, 
%4/-1%4’ long, 5//-12’’ wide; peduncles some- 
times elongated but variable in length; racemes 
rather loose; flowers purplish, about 6’’ long; 
pod linear, 1/-11/’ long, 2’’ wide, densely and 
finely downy-pubescent. 
In dry soil, New York Island; Flushing, Long 
Island, south to Florida, west to Pennsylvania, 
Kentucky and Texas. June-July. 
43- RHYNCHOSIA Lour. Fl. Cochin. 562. 1793. 
Perennial twining trailing or erect herbs, with pinnately 1-3-foliolate leaves, and yellow 
mostly axillary and racemose flowers. Leaflets generally punctate with resinous dots, not 
stipellate. Calyx 4-5-lobed, somewhat 2-lipped. Standard obovate or orbicular, spreading 
or reflexed. Wings narrow. Keel incurved at the apex or falcate. Stamens diadelphous 
(9 and 1). Ovary nearly sessile; ovules 2, rarely 1; style filiform. Pod flat, oblong or 
obliquely orbicular, 2-valved, 1-2-seeded. [Greek, beak, from the beak-like keel of the 
corolla. ] 
About 100 species, natives of warm and temperate regions. In addition to the following, some 
9 others occur in the southern States. 
Leaflets 3. 
Stem twining or trailing. 
Racemes shorter than the leaves; flowers 3'’-4'' long. 
Racemes longer than the leaves; flowers about 6’’ long. 
Stem erect, 1°-2%° high. 
Leaflets solitary, very broad; plants low, 3-9’ high. 
. R. tomentosa. 
. R. latifolia. 
. R. erecta. 
. R. simplicifolia. 
wn 
1. Rhynchosia tomentosa (L.) 
H.& A. Twining Rhynchosia. 
(Fig. 2230.) 
Glycine tomentosa I,. Sp. Pl. 754. 
Rhynchosia tomentosa vat. wolebiles Pee G. Fl. N. 
A. 1: 285. 1838. 
Rhynchosia tomentosa H. & A. Comp, Bot. Mag. 1: 
23: O35. 
Trailing or twining, more or less pubescent 
with spreading hairs, simple or branched, 1°-3° 
long. Stipules ovate, acute, 2’’-4’’ long, some- 
times wanting; petioles shorter than the leaves; 
leaflets 3, or the lowest leaves 1-foliolate, ovate, 
orbicular or broader than long, obtuse but gen- 
erally pointed, 1/-2’ long; racemes short-pedun- 
cled or sessile, 2-8-flowered; flowers 3//-4’’ long; 
calyx deeply 4-parted, the upper lobe 2-cleft; 
pod oblong, acute, pubescent, 8’’-9’’ long, about 
3/’ wide. 
In dry sandy soil, Virginia to Florida, west to 
Texas. May-July. 
