VOLUME XLIII NUMBER 5 
DOTANICAL “GAZEETE 
MAY 17907 
CONSPECTUS GENERIS AMORPHAE 
CAMILLO KARL SCHNEIDER 
In reviewing the genus Amorpha for my J/lustriertes Handbuch 
der Laubholzkunde, 1 had the opportunity of looking over the forms 
of this small but variable genus, for Professor TRELEASE had kindly 
sent me the rich collection of the Herbarium of the Missouri Botani- 
cal Garden. I am very much indebted to him for his great assis- 
tance to me in all my dendrological studies. 
In Smatt’s Flora S. E. United States, F. E. Boynton has pub- 
lished a good synopsis of most of the species of the genus, but there 
seem to me to be some errors of statement arising from a failure to 
clear up some of the descriptions of the older European and American 
authors. I take this opportunity, therefore, to refer to some points 
concerning which I think Boynton has taken a wrong view. 
CLAVIS ANALYTICA SPECIERUM 
ta. Foliola infima proxime super basin subdilatatam petiola adnata ramo 
valde approximata fere pseudostipulosa. 2. 
tb. Foliola infima distincte paulo superius rhachi adnata a ramo plus minusve 
distantia. 3. 
2a. Calycis dentes omnes fere aequilongi, tubo paullo breviores; foliola 15-51, 
subsessilia, ovato-oblonga vel oblongo-elliptica, basi rotunda, apice fere semper 
subacuta, valde approximata; planta omnibus partibus albo-canescens 
2. A. canescens 
2b. Calycis dentes diversi, superiores breviores et paullo obtusiores (sed satis 
variabiles); foliola distinctius petiolulata, elliptica vel anguste-elliptica, basi 
Semper apice plerumque rotunda; planta haud distincte denseque canescens sed 
plus minus pu scens; interdum subglabrescens . 1, A. herbacea 
3a. Folia minus quam 10% longa; foliola 15-35, Soedabihan anguste- 
elliptica vel elliptica, utrinque rotunda vel subrotunda, 6-13™™ longa et 2.5-7"™ 
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