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at the base, bright green and somewhat shining above, paler underneath : partial stalks hairy, 

 with minute deciduous stipelles at the base : common petiole an inch long. Racemes 4-8- 

 flowered, at first usually shorter than the leaves, but at length (particularly in fruit) exceeding 

 them. Calyx-segments erect, the lowest one longest. Corolla reddish purple and white, with 

 tinges of green, very handsome. Anthers linear-oblong. Style long and filiform. Legume 

 slightly falcate, 1 J - 2 inches long, 4 - 6-seeded. 



Hill-sides near the Hudson river, Peekskill {Dr. S. B. Mead). July - August. — I have 

 not seen the plant collected by Dr. Mead, and therefore describe from specimens collected in 

 New-Jersey, where this species is very common. It will very probably be found in the sandy 

 soils of Long Island, although I have not yet detected it there. 



Subtribe 3. Clitorie^, Benth. Ovary with several ovules. Inflorescence axillanj : pedun- 

 cles 1 - 2-flowered at the summit, or many-flowered, with the racemes often 

 fasciculate or branching. Bracts {except in Amphicarp.ea) and hracteoles 

 opposite, striate. Vexillum large, not appendiculate at the base. — Flowers 

 commonly large. 



7. CLITORIA. Linn, (in part) ; Benth. comm. Legum. gen. p. 50 ; Endl. gen. 6635. 

 [ Name derived from an anatomical term.] 

 Calyx tubular, 5-toothed ; the teeth much shorter than the tube ; lowest one lanceolate, the 

 others triangular-ovate. Vexillum very large, emarginate or bifid, not spurred on the back : 

 keel small, shorter than the wings, incurved, acute, on very long claws. Style dilated at 

 the apex, longitudinally bearded. Legume stipitate, linear or linear-oblong, torulose, flat- 

 tish, without nerves. Seeds orbicular, somewhat compressed.— Twining, perennial herbs. 

 Leaves pinnately trifoiiolate. Stipules somewhat persistent, striate : partial stipules seta- 

 ceous. Peduncles 1 - 2- (or many-) flowered. Bracts similar to the stipules : bracteoles 

 larger. Flowers very large. 



1. Clitoria Mariana, Linn. (Plate XXIV.) Maryland Clitoria. 



Smooth ; stem trailing or somewhat twining ; leaves trifoiiolate ; leaflets more or less ovate ; 

 peduncles short, 1 - 3-flowcred ; bracteoles lanceolate-subulate, much shorter than the calyx^ 

 similar in size and form to the bracts ; legumes linear-oblong, 4 - 8-seeded, smoolh.— Walt. 

 fl. Car. p.im; Willd. sp. 3. p. 1070 ; Micluc. fl. 2. p. 62 ; Nutt. gen. 2. p. 1 18 ; Ell. sk. 

 2. p. 240 ; DC. prodr. 2. p. 234 ; Beck, bot. p. 80 ; Torr. compend. p. 271. 



Stem 2 feet or more in length, usually trailing over small bushes. Leaflets about 2 inches 

 long, rather obtuse, sometimes a little cordate, the middle one distant. Peduncles seldom 

 more llian two- and often onc-flowercd. Bracteoles about one-fourth the length of tlic calyx. 



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