46 Pulse (Legiiminbsce). [No. 7 



Found, in sandy ground from Long Island and New 

 Jersey to Florida, and westward to Southern Indiana 

 and Texas. 



A vine two to four feet long, from a perennial root- 

 stock. 



Fig. 22. Few-Flowered Kidney-Bean. P. pauciflbrus, Benth. 



Flowers, in few-blossomed clusters. Cluster-stems, much 

 longer than the leaf-stems. 



Leaflets, three, one to two inches long, slightly hairy, long 

 egg-shape to very narrow, not lobed. July, August. 



Pod, one to one and a half inches in length, straight, 

 slender, flattened, downy or hairy. Seeds, five to 

 eight. A legume. 



Found, from Indiana to Minnesota and southward to 

 Missouri and Texas. 



A slender prostrate vine, downy or hairy, two to four 

 feet in length. 



(4) Genus CLITORIA, L. 

 Fig. 23. Butterfly-Pea. C. Mariana, L. 



Flowers, nearly two inches in length (standard pale purple 

 or blue, the rest whitish or blue and white), in one- 

 to three-blossomed axillary clusters. Standard, erect, 

 rounded to reverse egg-shape, usually notched above, 

 not spurred, much larger than the other petals. 

 Keel, shorter than the wings, pointed and incurved 



