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lets 11-25, oval or elliptic, 8-25 mm. long, 5-10 mm. wide, rounded at each end, rather firm 

 and reticulate, dark-green and glossy above, pale and conspicuously glandular-dotted beneath; 

 racemes usually solitary, 5-15 cm. long; calyx about 3 mm. long, glabrous except the margin of 

 the lobes; tube turbinate; lobes short, ciliolate, the upper two broadly triangular and acutish 

 or rounded (A. cyanostachya) , the lower three lance-triangular, subulate-pointed; banner 

 usually blue, broadly cuneate or cuneate-obovate, 4.5-5 mm. long; pod 4-5 mm. long, nearly 

 straight on the back, conspicuously glandular-dotted throughout, 5 mm. long. 



Type locality: Near Newbern, North Carolina. 



Distribution: North Carolina to Florida. 



Illustrations: C. K. Schneid. Handb. Laubh. 2:/. 42, s-u; /. 43, e-e 2 : f. 44, e. 



11. Amorpha crenulata Rydberg, sp. nov. 



A nearly glabrous shrub, 1-1.5 m. high; branches angled, glabrous, glandular-dotted; 

 leaves 1-1.5 dm. long; petioles 1 cm. long or less, glabrous; leaflets 25-33, oblong or linear- 

 oblong, 1.5-3.5 cm. long, less than 1 cm. wide, glabrous on both sides, paler and glandular- 

 dotted beneath, acute at both ends, or obtuse or rounded at the apex, often decidedly crenulate 

 on the margins, less firm than in the preceding; racemes usually more or less clustered, 1-2 

 dm. long, glabrous; calyx about 4 mm. long, glabrous except the margins of the lobes; tube 

 elongate-turbinate; lobes short, ciliolate, the upper two triangular-ovate, acuminate, the lower 

 three lanceolate, subulate-pointed; banner white, cuneate-spatulate, 6 mm. long; pod 6-7 mm. 

 long, nearly straight on the back, conspicuously glandular-dotted above the middle. 



Type collected in hammocks, between Cocoanut Grove and Cutler, Florida, May 9, 1904, 

 Stnall 6- Wilson 1898 (herb. N. Y. Bot. Card.). 

 Distribution: Subtropical Florida. 



12. Amorpha Curtissii Rydberg, sp. nov. 



A glabrous shrub, 1-3 m. high; leaves 1-2 dm. long, ascending; petioles 1-2 cm. long; 

 leaflets 1 1-21, oblong or elliptic, 2-4.5 cm. long, 8-15 mm. wide, rounded at both ends or acut- 

 ish at the base, apiculate at the apex, minutely glandular-punctate beneath, reticulate; petio- 

 lules about 2 mm. long; racemes several, clustered, 5-15 cm. long, sparingly pubescent; pedi- 

 cels 1-2 mm. long; calyx 3.5-4 mm. long, glabrous except the ciliate calyx-lobes, with only a 

 few rather inconspicuous glands; lobes short, about 0.5 mm. long, the upper two rounded, the 

 lower three triangular and acute; banner 5 mm. long, dark bluish-purple, broadly obovate; 

 pod 7-S mm. long, 4 mm. wide, nearly straight on the back, conspicuously glandular- punctate; 

 seed brown, shining, oblong, 4 mm. long. 



Tvpe collected in low ground, near river, Jacksonville. Florida, May 6 and August 21, 1894, 

 A. H. Curtiss 4703 (herb. Columbia Univ.). 



Distribution: Northern Florida to North Carolina (?). 



13. Amorpha herbacea Walt. Fl. Car. 179. 1788. 



Amorpha pubcscens Willd. Berlin. Baumz. 17. 1796. 



Amorpha pumila Michx. Fl. Bor. Am. 2: 64. 1803. 



Amorpha herbacea typica C. K. Schneid. Handb. Laubh. 2: 69. 1907. 



Amorpha herbacea Boyntoni C. K. Schneid. Handb. Laubh. 2: 69. 1907. 



A low shrub, 5-15 dm. high; branches grooved, finely canescent; leaves divaricate, 4-16 

 cm. long; petioles not longer than the width of the leaflets, as well as the rachis finely canes- 

 cent; stipules setaceous, glabrous; leaflets 11-37, elliptic, oblong, or ovate-oblong, 10-25 mm. 

 long, 5-10 mm. broad, rounded at each end, sometimes mucronulate, finely canescent on both 

 sides, conspicuously black-dotted and strongly veined beneath; petiolules about 2 mm. long; 

 racemes clustered, 5-30 cm. long, villous-puberulent; pedicels about 1 mm. long; calyx about 

 4 mm. long, strongly grooved, villous; upper two lobes triangular, acute, about 1 mm. long, the 

 lower three subulate, acuminate, 1.5 mm. long; banner broadly cuneate, refuse, 4-5 mm. long, 

 white to pale-purple; pod 4-5 mm. long, 2-2.5 mm. wide, nearly straight on the back, puberu- 

 lent, with conspicuous dark glands; seed solitary, oblong, brown, shining. 



Type locality: Carolina. 



Distribution: North Carolina to Florida. 



Illustrations: Bot. Cab. pi. 689; C. K. Schneid. Handb. Laubh. 2:/. 42, a, b; /. 43, b, c. 



