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LKl'rOTKS 



LKSPEDEZA 



rr\>opin(j rliiionu- :in>l boariiiK t •' Hoshy liiu-ar Ivs. and 

 :i sK-mlor hut riniil. Ii^rmmal nici'im': sepals and petals 

 no:urly e<)a:»l. spreadiiiji: lalielUmi joined tii tlie base of 

 the iMiKinin; lateral lobes laijie, spreading or small, 

 auricU^like. middle lolx- larjie. entire, eontraeted at 

 ba.s«>. «)luinn with 2 wide win^s; poUinia 4 piTfeet and 

 - im|>erfe«'t. — Six spwies in Hrazil and \V. Indies. Cult. 

 :is for ladia. 



bfcolor, Liiull. (Telramh-ra himlor, Rolfc). Lvs. 

 stilitary on the short st., semi-eylimlrie, with a fin-row in 

 front. 3-4 in. lon^: raeeme few-lid., shorter than the 

 lvs.: sepals and |H'tals white, lincar-ineurvi-d, over 1 

 in. Ioiik; lateral lobes of the lip small, folilinn over the 

 eiilunin: terminal lobe oblontj-lanieolate, bright rose, 

 with white tip and margins. A pretty plant. U.K. 

 UVJ.i. A.V. 0:l>.S3. Gn. .59, p. 77. Var. glaucophylla, 

 HiK)k. Lvs. glaucous. B.^I. U7.'J4. 



/.. unicolor. Kcnir. Hahit prndiilous; (L,. pale lilac: lvs. fleshy. 



'^™"'- Heinuich Hasseldhinc. 



LESCHENAULTIA (named for L. T. Lerhenault, 

 botanical traveler in the far K.t. Written also Ltrhrn- 

 aultia. (iiMultiiioci.T . .Vbout 20 species :is understood 

 by the latest monographer (Krause, in Kiifjlcr's I'llan- 

 zenn>ich. hft. .'54. 1912) of herbs and heatli-like shrubs 

 of .\ustral., sometimes grown under gla.ss: glabrous or 

 rarely hirsute: lvs. heath-like, .scattered or crowded, 

 narrow ami entire: fis. yellow, red, violet or greenish, 

 solit.ar\' or eorymbcd, .showy, with a slender tube and 

 large Imib; calyx-tube adnate to ovary, the lobes 't and 

 linear or lanceolate; corolla oblicpie, the tube usually 

 slit to the b;i.se, on the l)a<'k, the lobes connivent or 

 spreading; anthers mostly cohering around the style; 

 indusium (.or dilated top of style) 2-lippcd with a partial 



21 J« Leipedeza bicolor. iX'A) 



ring of hairs outside: caps, linear. 4-valved, dehiscent. 

 — The lesclienaultias rc(|uire special care in watering, 

 and an open soil with plenty of liber and sand. They 

 are very handsome hardwooded plants for greenhouse 

 growing, but seldom .seen in this country. 



/>. hiliilm, l.iiull, Slirul), 1 :i ft.: Ivw. not Kfeatl.v crowded, about 

 *4 or lain, lonii: fif^. bliie an<l liamlsonie. the corolla about ^.lin. 

 lonK. either few on the shoot or eorymbed; lobes of coroihi longer 

 than tube, .spreading, witii dark bUic veined wiiiKs and a point or 

 niucro between. W. .\ustral. -/,. farmtim, U. Hr. (I., niultiflora. 

 I. odd. 1.. H.'ixteri, IJon). .^preadinR anil much branched, 1-2 ft.: 

 lvs. rather loosely sc;ittered. 'ain. or less lonK: fls. solitary, red; 

 corolUi-tube split to base, .% lines or less long; corolla somewhat bila- 

 biate, the upper lobes broad and rounded, erect and connivent and 

 shorter than tin- hirge and spreading lower ones. W. Austral. B.M. 

 2(il)ll. U.K. lllli. L.B.C. 10:1579.— i,. oramlifldra, Lindl.. is a 

 iarne-tld. form of I., bitoba. — L. lariciua, Lindl. (I., splendens. 

 Hook.). Much iiraiiehed, erect, 1 ft.: lvs. fine, rather crowded: fls. 

 white to lilac to red, sessile in upper axils; tube of corolla ' C'in- long, 

 slit to h:ise; lobes of corolla all similar, usually shorter than the 

 lube. W. Austral. B.M. 4256. F.S. 2:176. H.F. II. 6: 14.— /,. 

 apUndens, Hook.=L. laricina. T H H 



LESPEDEZA (D. Lcspedez was a Spanish governor 

 of Florida, who aided the botanist Michaux). Legumi- 

 ii(')s;i-. Bush C'l.ovEit. Small shrubs or herbs with pea- 

 sliaped flowers in racemes or heads, some of them very 

 ornanienlal but mostly not showy; one extensively 

 used for forage. 



Leaves pinnately ;{-foliolate or rarely 1-foliolate, 

 the Ifts. entire and wanting stipels: calyx-lobes nearly 

 equ;d, sometimes subuliite; anthers usually 9 and 1: pod 

 short :inil l-secded (and in this differing from Desmo- 

 dium, which has jointed pods). — Species 40 or more, 

 in N. Amer., Asia and Austral., most of them not 

 known liorticulturally. In some of the lespedezas 

 there are 2 kinds of fls., — petal-bearing and mostly 

 sterilt^, apetalous and mostly fertile. There are a 

 munbiir of native lespedezas, usually of dry lands, some 

 of which are offered by dealers in native plants, but they 

 are not very showy and are most in place in natural 

 borders tind in amateur collections. These species 

 thrive in light, dry soils. Because of the grayi.sh or 

 brownish color of the foliage, they are sometimes useful 

 in landscajx' gardening work, and they are hardy, and 

 of easiest cult.; perennial. Two or 3 of the oriental 

 species arc now becoming [popular. L. striata is the 

 ,Iai)an clover of the S., antl is a valuable forage and 

 green-manure plant. L. bicnlor is a low shrub, with 

 siii:dl violet-purple Hs., hardy in New England, but 

 little known in cult. The most important ornamental 

 members of the genus thus far well known are L. 

 Sicbiildii and L. japuiiica, which are hardy herbs or sub- 

 shrubs sending up many strong wiry shoots each year, 

 and blooming profusely in Se))t. and Oct. Their late 

 bloom is very desirable. All lespedezas are of the easiest 

 cult, wlierevcr harily. Usually increased by division 

 of tli(^ clumi)S. L. Sicholdii is readily prop, by green- 

 wood cuttings under gla.ss- 



INDEX. 



nlliiftiirii, 10. hirta, 1. 



bicolor, X. 1((. tiilrrmeilia, 6. 



capitata, 2. japonica, 10. 



formona, 9. Nuttallii, 4. 



fruteacens, 6. racrmnsil, *.). 



A. Occidental or native lespedezas: of upright or erect habit, 



not shmvy: stipules and fl.-bracts minute, subulate. 



n. Pis. whitish or ijellmvish, all complete. 



1. hirta, KU. Erect, 2-4 ft. tall, silky-pubescent: 

 petioles shorter than the lvs.; Ifts. nearly orbicular to 

 iong-ovatc: fls. in ol)long or cylindrical heads on pedun- 

 cles that usually exceecl the lvs.: pod .scarcely shorter 

 thtm calyx, oblong-ovate, pubescent. Dry soils, New 

 Enghmd to l''la. and West. Mn. 6:181.— There is a 

 for III with oblong Ifts. 



2. capitata, Michx. Much like the l.a.st, but petioles 

 very short, Ifts. narrow-oblong or oval, and the fl.- 

 heads dense and short-peduncled (peduncles shorter 

 than lv8.). Range of the above. 



Sieboldii, 9, 10. 

 striata, 7. 

 Htuvei, 5, 6. 

 violaeea. 3. 



