108 LEGU MINOSAE, 
4. Leaflets scarcely 20 mm. long: flowers axillary. CC. hirsutus. 
Leaflets nearly 25 mm. long: flowers in heads. C. supinus. 
AmorPHA, False Indigo. 
Deciduous shrubs with slender more or less_ sulcate 
branches; rather 3-sided homogeneous pith; white wood with 
minute ducts, somewhat more crowded ‘in spring and in wavy 
tangential lines in summer, and fine medullary rays; alternate 
crescent-shaped somewhat raised leaf-scars with 3  bundle- 
traces; small stipule-scars; appressed small ovoid buds with 
about 4 exposed scales; odd-pinnate glandular-punctate leaves; 
small papilionaceous more or less violet flowers; and small 
glandular pods. 
1. Leaves nearly sessile: gray. (Lead plant). A. canescens. 
Leaves distinctly stalked. 2. 
2. Hairy when young. A. fruticosa. 
Glabrous. A. glabra. 
WisTErRIA. Wistaria. 
Deciduous twining shrubs with rather slender subterete 
twigs; moderate somewhat angled continuous pith; alternate 
elevated half-round or squarish leaf-scars, short-spurred at base, 
with 3 compound bundle-traces; no stipule-scars; sessile round 
or ovoid buds with about 3 exposed scales; large odd-pinnate 
leaves with short-stalked entire leaflets; perfect showy papil- 
ionaceous flowers in terminal panicles; and moniliform legumes 
with several large plump seeds. 
1. Flowers appearing before the leaves, scentless. 2. 
Flowers appearing after the leaves, fragrant. 3 
2. Panicles 30 cm. long. W. floribunda. 
Panicles 50-90 cm. long. W. floribunda macrobotrys. 
3. Panicles short (8-10 cm.), glandless. W. frutescens. 
Panicles moderate (15 cm. or more): pedicels and calyx 
pubescent and also glandular-papillate. WW. macrostachys. 
RopinrA, Locust. Rose Acacia. 
Deciduous trees, sometimes with stipular spines, with hard 
yellow and brown wood with the larger ducts somewhat crowded 
