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11. GEOLOBUS FLAVUS Raf. Glyc. sub terr ti- 

 nea L. Stem procumbent flexuose, petiols erect 

 trigone, folioles oblong obtuse smooth : pedun- 

 cles axillary drooping biflorc, two bracts ovate 

 incumbent over the 2 flowers In South Ame- 

 rica and perhaps Florida ? 



I must add here for further discrimination 

 another fine N. G. united as usual to Glycine, 

 and akin to the above. 



TRIBNDILIX Raf. calix 4fid closed, only 3 

 petals concealed within it. Pods linear terete 

 polysperm. Perennial, twining, peduncles 

 axillary, flowers minute. 



12. 't'mENDiLix CLANDESTINA Raf. Glycine 

 do W. Pers . . . stem twining, villose silky, fo- 

 lioles lanceolate, silky beneath, peduncles ter- 

 nate uniflore In Australia. Leaves with 3 

 folioles as in all the true Glycine tribe. Tri- 

 endilix means three within the calix, abrevia- 

 tion from Triendokilix,Geolobus means Earth- 

 pod. Lobomon is an ancient Greek name for 

 some kind of peas er beans. 



MONOGRAPH OF PELTANDRA. 



I noticed this Genus as early as 1804, I as- 

 certained it in 1816, and published it in 1819 

 in my Essay on 50 N. G. in Journal de Phy- 

 sique Paris. It has been adopted by many Bo- 

 tanists j Torrey doubted it in 1817, yet in 1821 

 he has admitted but misnamed it Lecontea, a 

 double blunder, since there was another Lecon- 

 tea! and my previous name was better. Beck 

 in 1833 changed it again through ignorance of 

 my previous claim to Renselaria. Each knew 

 only of one type, while I have ascertained many: 



