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stipe about 2 cm. long, the body 6-8 mm. long, 6-7 mm. wide, tapering at each end, the beak 

 less than 1 cm. long; seeds dull-brown, 7 mm. long, half as high. 



Type locality: Mexico. 



Distribution : Jalisco. 



Illustration: Cav. Ic. pi. 315; Am. Jour. Bot. 10: pi. 35 J. 



11. DAUBENTONIA DC. M6m. Leg. 285. 1823. 



Shrubs or trees. Leaves abruptly pinnate, with small oblong caducous stipules and 

 many leaflets. Flowers in axillary racemes, with one bract at the base of the pedicel and two 

 bractlets under the calyx, the bracts and bractlets caducous. Calyx rounded-campanulate, 

 broader than high, undulately 5-toothed, the lobes ciliolate on the margin. Corolla yellow or 

 rose-red. Banner slightly longer than the other petals, the blade orbicular, reflexed, the claw 

 short, bent. Wings oblong with a short bent claw. Keel-petals lunate, obtuse, without a 

 basal auricle, the claw longer than the calyx. Stamens diadelphous, the free filament and 

 the staminal sheath as if articulate near the base. Style filiform, glabrous. Pod linear- 

 oblong, beaked, and stipitate, coriaceous, 4-winged or at least 4-angled, the seeds separated 

 by cross-partitions. Seeds subglobose. 



Type species, Piscidia punicea Cav. 



Pod distinctly 4-winged. 



Corolla rose-colored or purplish ; calyx -lobes obtusish ; pod rather gradually 



tapering at the ends. 1. D. punicea. 



Corolla yellow; calyx-lobes acute; pod abruptly acuminate. 2. D. Drummondii. 



Pod merely 4-angled; corolla yellow. 3. D. virgata. 



1. Daubentonia punicea (Cav.) DC. Mem. Leg. 286. 1823. 



Piscidia punicea Cav Ic. 4:8. 1797. 



Aeschynomene miniata Ortega, Dec. 28. 1797. 



? Ormocarpum elegans G. Don, Gen. Hist. 2: 279. 1832. 



Sesbania punicea Benth. in Mart. Fl. Bras. IS 1 : 43. 1859. 



Emerus puniceus Kuntze, Rev. Gen. 181. 1891. 



A shrub, 2 m. high or more, or sometimes a small tree; branches terete, glabrous or with 

 scattered hairs on the young parts, often purplish; stipules lanceolate, 4-5 mm. long, caducous; 

 leaves 1-2 dm. long; rachis glabrous; leaflets 12-40, linear-oblong, obtuse or rounded and mu- 

 cronate at the apex, acute or obtuse at the base, 1.5-3 cm. long, 4-7 mm. wide, rather firm, 

 glabrous or slightly strigose when young; racemes 5-10 cm. long; bracts and bractlets linear- 

 subulate, caducous; calyx about 3 mm. high and 5 mm. broad, undulate on the margin, the 

 lobes very broad and obtusish; corolla rose-red or purplish, sometimes turning orange; banner 

 12-15 mm. long; pod normally 5-7 cm. long, 12-15 mm. wide, rather gradually tapering at 

 both ends, short-beaked, 5-8-seeded; stipe 8-15 mm. long, or longer if some of the lower seeds 

 are abortive; seeds subglobose. 



Type locality: Tropical America. 



Distribution: Florida to Mississippi; also from Brazil to Argentina. 



Illustrations: Cav. Ic. pi. 316; Am. Jour. Bot. 10: pi. 35 K. 



2. Daubentonia Drummondii Rydb. Am. Jour. Bot. 

 10: 498. 1923. 



Daubentonia longifolia DC. Mem. Leg. 286, in part, as to description. 1823. 

 Daubentonia longifolia ? T. & G. Fl. N. Am. 1 :293. 1838. 



Sesbania Cavanillesii S. Wats. Proc. Am. Acad. 17: 342, in part, as to specimens. 1882. 

 Daubentonia Cavanillesii Standley, Contr. U. S. Nat. Herb. 23: 476. 1922. 



A shrub. 2-6 m. high; stem and branches terete, glabrous or with a few scattered hairs 

 when young; stipules lanceolate, 3-4 mm. long, early caducous; leaves 1-2 dm. long; rachis 

 glabrous; leaflets 20-50, linear-oblong, mostly rounded and mucronate at the apex, acute or 

 obtuse at the base, 1.5-3.5 cm. long, 4—7 mm. wide, sparingly strigose when young, soon 



