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Leaves cauline, compound, alternate (first two simple and oppo- 

 site), stipulate, petiolate. 



Nos. 1 and 2. Simple, opposite, rotund-ovate, obtuse or apiculate, 

 ciliate, covered on both sides with small sessile red glands, opaque, 

 subtrinerved ; petiole 2 mm. long ; stipules free, interpetiolar, linear- 

 subulate, acute, slender. 



No. 3. Digitately trifoliolate ; lateral leaflets oblique, oval, obtuse, 

 mucronate, penninerved with a strong nerve on the oblique side ; 

 terminal leaflet elliptic, obtuse, mucronate, trinerved, nerves ascend- 

 ing or slightly incurved ; petiole deeply channelled above, dilated into 

 a fleshy foot at the base, variable in length, averaging about 1-8 cm. 

 long ; petiolules about 1 mm. long ; stipules opposite the leaf and 

 more or less connate for two-thirds or three-fourths of their length, 

 adpressed to the stem with ovate acute free teeth. 



Nos. 4-6. Similar, but larger. 



Ultimate leaves digitately or subpinnately trifoliolate; lateral 

 leaflets obliquely ovate, apiculate ; terminal one elliptic, obtuse at 

 both ends, apiculate, trinerved. 



Galactia glabella, Michx. 



Cotyledons just emerging from the soil, shortly oblong, fleshy, 

 convex on the back, flat on the face. 



Leaves. Nos. 1 and 2. Simple, cordate, cuspidate, entire, deep 

 green, opposite. 



No. 3. Alternate, pinnately trifoliolate ; terminal leaflet oblong, 

 obtuse, emarginate ; lateral leaflets oblong or ovate, obtuse, emar- 

 ginate. 



TRIBE DALBERGIEJE. 



Dalbergia hnpeana, Auct. 



Hypocotyl 3 cm. long, erect, terete, glabrous, light green. 



Cotyledons thick, fleshy, obtusely and obliquely ovate, wrinkled, 

 dark green, glabrous, very shortly petiolate or subsessile, 8 mm. long, 

 5 mm. wide, distinctly one-nerved. 



Stem herbaceous, ultimately becoming woody, erect, terete, 

 slightly hoary ; 1st internode from 2'5-3'5 cm. ; 2nd considerably 

 shorter, about 1 mm. 



Leaves compound, pinnate, with seven or more leaflets, alternate, 

 but so near together that they appear opposite, stipulate, though 

 this genus is usually exstipulate. 



Leaflets entire, alternate, obovate, with short petiolules, almost 

 sessile, bright green, rather reflexed, slightly cuspidate ; midrib 

 with numerous ascending branched veinlets. 



