62 DIALYPETALOTJS EXOGENS 



f f Flowers all alike and perfect, in oblong or capitate clusters; corolla ochroleucoug, 

 with a purple spot on the vexillum. 



4 L llirta. Ell. Stem erect, paniculate at summit, hoary- 



villous ; leaflets roundish-oval ; peduncles longer than the leaves ; 



spikes oblong, rather loose. 



L. polystachya. MX. $ Fl. Cestr. ed. 2. p. 421. 



HAIRY LESPEDEZA. 



Stem 2 to 4 or 5 feet high. Leaflets two-thirds of an inch to an inch and half 

 long; common petioles one line to half an inch in length, very hairy. Flowers 

 crowded in cylindric-oblong spikes of about an inch in length, and two-thirds of an 

 inch in diameter, on axillary villous peduncles 1 to 2 or 3 inches long. Legume 

 elliptic-ovate, very hairy, nearly as long as the calyx-segments. 

 Hab. Dry, hilly woodlands : frequent. Fl. Aug. Fr. Octo. 



5. L. Cil|> it at a, MX. Stem nearly simple, virgate, silky-villous ; 



leaflets elliptic-oblong; peduncles shorter than the leaves; spikes 



ovoid, rather dense. 



L. frutescens. Ell. $ Fl. Cestr. ed. 2. p. 421. 



CAPITATE LESPEDEZA. 



Stem 2 to 4 (usually about 3) feet high, leafy, sulcate-striate, the silky pubes- 

 cence often tawny. Leaflets 1 to near 2 inches long, sometimes linear-oblong, 

 mostly obtuse; common petioles 1 or 2 lines in length, the petiolule of the terminal 

 leaflet 2 or 3 times as long as the common petiole. Flowers crowded in oblong- 

 ovoid or subglobose heads, on axillary peduncles % to % an inch long. Legume 

 elliptic-ovate, hairy, % or % shorter than the calyx-segments. 

 Hab. Slaty hills : not very common. Fl. Aug, Fr. Octo. 



97. STYL-OSAflKTMES, Swartz. 



[Gr. Stylos, a column, and Anthos, a flower; the flower appearing stipitate.J 

 Flowers of 2 kinds, intermixed in clusters; one complete, but un- 

 fruitful, the other fertile, though only a pistil with 2 bractlets. 

 Calyx-tube long and slender, like a stipe. Stamens monadelphous. 

 Legume 1-celled, or articulated and 2-celled, beaked with the 

 hooked style. 



1 S elatior, Sw. Stems erect, slender, often tufted; leaflets 

 lanceolate, straight-veined; upper stipules sheathing; spikes few- 

 flowered. 

 TALLER STYLOSANTHES. Pencil Flower. 



Perennial. Stem 9 to 15 inches high, somewhat branched above; branches his- 

 pidly pilose at summit. Leaflets % of an inch to an inch and quarter long, ru- 

 gose-dotted beneath; common petioles % to % an inch in length. Flowers bright 

 yellow, in small terminal clusters, invested with hispid-ciliate bracts which are tri- 

 foliolate, or trifid and membranaceous. Legume often articulated and 2-celled. 

 Hab. North Valley Hill; W. Nottingham: not common. Fl. July. Fr. Sept. 



TRIBE 4. LO V TEAE. 



Leaves odd-pinnate, or trifoliolate ; legume continuous, 1-celled; cotyledons becom- 

 ing green in germination. 



SUB-TRIBE 1. GALE X GEAE. 



Leaves odd-pinnate, the earliest ones opposite; stamens sometimes monadelphoue ; 

 legume linear, several-seeded. 



