Part 3, 1923] FABACEAE: GALEGEAE 185 



1. Kraunhia frutescens (I,.) Greene, Pittonia 2: 175. 1891. 



Glycine frulescens L. Sp. PI. 753. 1753. 



Anonymos frutescens Walt. Fl. Car. 1S6. 1788. 



A pios frutescens Pursh. Fl. Am. Sept. 474. 1814. 



Diplonyx elegans Raf . Fl . Ludov. 101. 1 S 1 7 . 



Thyrsanthus frutescens Ell. Jour. Acad. Phila. 1: 371. 1818. 



Wisteria speciosa Nutt. Gen. 2: 116. 1818. 



Wisteria frutescens Poir. in Lam. Tab. Eneyc. 3: 674. 1823. 



Thyrsanthus floridana Croom, Am. Jour. Sci. 25: 75. 1834. 



Phaseclus frutescens Eaton & Wright, N. Am. Bot. 354. 1840. 



Bradleya frutescens Britton, Man. 549. 1901. 



A woody vine, 10-15 m. high; branches puberulent or villous when young; stipules 

 lanceolate, caducous; leaves 1-3 dm. long; petiole and rachis more or less pubescent; leaflets 

 9-15, ovate or ovate-lanceolate, 2-6 cm. long, acuminate, from acute to rounded at the base, 

 glabrous and green above, pale and sparingly pubescent beneath; racemes dense, 4- 10 cm. 

 long, the rachis lanuginous-villous; bracts lanceolate, caducous; pedicels 4-6 mm. long; calyx 

 finely pilose and more or less glandular, the tube campanulate, 5-6 mm. long, the upper 

 two teeth broadly triangular, sometimes nearly obsolete, the lower three deltoid, 1-2 mm. 

 long; corolla lilac-purple, 15-19 mm. long; basal auricles of the wings lanceolate, reflexed, 

 those of the keel-petals porrect; pod linear, 5-10 cm. long, about 12 mm. broad, somewhat 

 torulose. 



Type locality: Carolina. 



Distribution: Low ground from Virginia to Arkansas, Texas, and Florida. 



Illustrations: Audubon. Birds pi. 95; Sweet, Brit. Fl. Card. II. pi. 104; Loud. Arb. 2:/. 359; 

 Bot. Mag. pi. 2103; Rev. Horde. 1862: pi. opp. 1 1 ; Britt. & Brown, 111. Fl. f. 2120; eel. 2. f. 2524; C. 

 K. Schneid. 111. Handb. Laubh. 2:/. 47 g-h; f. 48 t-u. 



2. Kraunhia macrostachys (T. & G.) Small, Bull. Torrey 

 Club 25: 134. 1898. 



Wisteria frutescens macrostachys T. & G. Fl. N. Am. 1: 283. 1838. 

 Wisteria macrostachys Nutt.; T. & G. Fl. N. Am. 1: 283. as synonym. 1838. 

 Wisteria frutescens magnifica Herincq, Rev. Hortic. 1862: 50. 1862. 

 Bradleya macrostachys Small; Britton, Man. 549. 1901. 



A woody vine, 6-S m. high; branches sparingly pilose when young; leaves 1-3 dm. long; 

 petiole and rachis more or less silky-pilose; leaflets mostly 9, ovate tq elliptic-lanceolate, 

 3- 7 em. long, acuminate at the apex, rounded or cordate at the base, sparingly silky-pilose 

 on both sides or in age glabrate above; racemes 2-3 dm. long, drooping; peduncle densely 

 hirsute and glandular; bracts lanceolate, acuminate, caducous; pedicels 10-12 mm. long; 

 calyx densely hirsute and glandular, the tube about 6 mm. long; upper teeth almost obsolete, 

 the upper lip rounded or truncate; lateral teeth 4-5 mm. long, lanceolate, the lowest one 

 subulate, 6-7 mm. long; corolla lilac-purple or light-blue; basal auricle of the wings lanceolate 

 to linear-subulate, reflexed, often nearly equaling the claw; basal auricles of the keel-petals 

 deltoid, porrect; pod 7-12 cm. long, somewhat torulose, reddish-brown; seeds nearly black, 

 14 mm. long, 8 mm. thick. 



Type locality: Louisiana. 



Distribution: In swamps, from Illinois to Arkansas, Louisiana, and Tennessee. 



Illustrations: Britt. & Brown, 111. Fl. ed. 2./. 2525; C. K. Schneid. III. Handb. Laubh. 2: 

 47c; f. 48 w-y. 



3 Kraunhia floribunda (Willd.) Taub. in E. & P. Nat. 

 Pfl. 3 3 : 271. 1894. 



Glycine floribunda Willd. Sp. PI. 3*: 1066. 1803. 

 Wisteria floribunda DC. Prodr. 2: 390. 1825. 

 Wisteria brachybotrvs Sieb. & Zucc. Fl. Jap. 1: 92. 1826. 

 Kraunhia brachybotrvs Greene. Pittonia 2: 175. 1891. 

 Wisteria mullijuga Van Houtte, Fl. Serres 19: 125. 1872. 



A woody vine, 10-15 m. high; branches glabrate; leaves 2-3 dm. long; rachis somewhat 

 silky-strigose when young, soon glabrate; leaflets 15-19, elliptic-ovate to lanceolate, long- 

 acuminate, 2-7 cm. long, silky-strigose when young, glabrate in age, acute to rounded at the 

 base; racemes 1-3 dm. long; peduncle puberulent; pedicels 1.5-2 cm. long; calyx puberulent, 



