LEGUMINOS^: 575 



below with soft white pubescence, and slightly puberulous above, and at maturity 

 dark green and glabrous on the upper surface, pale and pubescent on the lower 

 surface, especially along the slender yellow midribs and primary veins and on the 

 stout glandular-hispid petiolules, l^'-2' long and f wide; stipels slender, deciduous. 

 Flowers |' long, almost inodorous, appearing in June, on slender hairy pedicels 

 from the axils of large lanceolate acuminate dark-red bracts contracted at the apex 

 into long setaceous points exserted beyond the flower-buds and mostly deciduous 

 before the flowers open, in short ovate crowded glandular-hispid racemes; calyx 

 dark red, coated on the outer surface and on the margins of the subulate lobes with 

 long pale hairs; corolla pale rose or flesh color, with a narrow standard marked on 

 the inner face by a pale yellow blotch, and broad side petals. Fruit linear-lan- 

 ceolate, narrowly winged, glandular-hispid, 2'-3^' long; seeds ^' long, dark reddish 

 brown and mottled. 



A tree, 30-40 high, with a trunk 10'-12' in diameter, slender spreading branches, 

 and dark reddish brown branchlets covered with conspicuous dark glandular hairs 

 exuding, like those on the petioles and legumes, a clammy, sticky substance, during 

 their first winter bright red-brown, covered with small black lenticels and very 

 sticky, becoming in their second year light brown and dry; or a shrub, often only 



5-6 tall. Bark of the trunk % thick, smooth, dark brown tinged with red, 

 Wood heavy, hard, close-grained, brown, with light yellow sapwood of 2 or 3 layers 

 of annual growth. 



Distribution. Mountains of North and South Carolina, and now naturalized in 

 many parts of the United States east of the Mississippi River and as far north as 

 eastern Massachusetts. 



Often planted as an ornament of parks and gardens in all countries with temperate 

 climate. 



16. OLNEYA, Gray. 



A tree, with thin scaly bark, and stout terete hoary-canescent slightly angled 

 branchlets armed with stout infrastipular spines. Leaves equally or unequally pin- 

 nate, hoary-canescent, persistent, 10-15-foliolulate, destitute of stipules and stipels, 

 short-petiolate, often fascicled in earlier axils; leaflets cuneate, oblong or obovate, 

 entire, obtuse, often mucronate, rigid, short-petiolulate, reticulate-veined, with broad 



