DIADEXPHIA. DECANDRIA. Il7 



ers subsessile; legumes villous; stem twining. Hab. la 

 Carolina and Georgia. 



2. mollis. Sofily villous: leaves ternate, mostly oval 

 and obtuse, paler beneath, above smooth; racemes pe- 

 dunculate, a little longer than the leaves; flowers pedi- 

 cellate; calix acuminate; legumes compressed, pubescent; 

 stem twining. Wat-. In Carolina and Georgia, vt s. In 

 Herb. Muhl. confour.ded with G. glabella, but more near- 

 Iv allied to G. pUosa. Hedysarum voiubile, Willd. 3. p. 

 1204. 



3. glabella. Nearly smooth; leaves ternate, elliptic-ob- 

 long, subcoriaceous and lucid, at either extremitv emar- 

 ginate; racemes pedunculate, a little shorter than the 

 leaves; flowers pedicellate; calix and legume smooth; 

 stt-m prostrate. Had. In arid soils from New Jersey to 

 Car(-Hna. (Abundant In New Jersey, about 3 miles from 

 Philadelphia.) Calix acuminate; flowers reddish, consi- 

 derably larger than in the 2 preceding; vexillum exter- 

 nally green; style long and nearly straight, exserted. 

 Germ villous. 



4. * EUiottii. Leaves pinnate, 3 pair (7), leaflets cori- 

 aceous, oblong-elliptic, mucronulate, smooth and lucid, 

 emarginate at either extremity; racemes pedunculate, 

 very few-flowered, shorter than the leaves; twining stem 

 and calix smooth. Hab. In South Carolina. — S. Elliott, 

 Esqr. Apparently distinct from G. pinnata of Persoon, 2. 

 p. 302- The whole plant almost absolutely smo''>t]i, ex- 

 cepting the leaf-buds which appear silky; stipules and 

 bractes after the manner of the genus minute ap;l deci- 

 duous. Leaves nearly the same color on both sides Ca- 

 lix rather deeply 4-clefr, segments lanceolate, acuminate. 

 Corolla pale red; vexillum broader than usual, roundish. 

 Fruit — ? 



Of this small genus there are 2 other species indige- 

 nous to the West Indies, and 1 to the isle of Bourbon. 



519. CLITORIA. Z. 



Calix campanulate (the 2 lower dentures long- 

 er and often falcate) or tubulou.s, 5-tootlied. Co- 

 rolla resupinate; vexillum very large and 

 spreading, overshadowing the wings. Legume 

 linear, acuminate, many-seeded. 



Herbaceous and twining or suberect plants; leaves ter=. 

 nate or rarely pinnate; stipules cauline, general and par. 

 tial, small; peduncles axillary, 1^ 3, 3 or more flowered, 



