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6. Robinia Kelseyi Cowell, Cycl. Am. Hort. 1538. 1902. 



A shrub, 1-3 m. high; branches flcxuose, glabrous; stipules 2-3 mm. long, subulate, rarely 

 developed into spines; leaves 1-1.5 dm. long; raehis glabrous or nearly so; leaflets 9-13, oblong- 

 lanceolate, acute, mucronate at the apex, obtuse at the base, 2-4 cm. long, 8-15 mm. wide, 

 glabrous or slightly pilose when unfolding; stipels subulate, 2 mm. long; racemes 5-S-flowered, 

 5-8 cm. long; peduncle, pedicels, and calyces more or less glandular-hirsute; pedicels 4-5 mm. 

 long; calyx-tube 5 mm. long, the lobes deltoid, subulate-tipped, 7-8 mm. long; corolla rose- 

 colored, about 2 cm. long; pod linear, acute at each end, 4-5 em. long, 1 cm. wide, densely 

 glandular-hispid, 3-4-seeded. 



Type locality: [Not given, hut supplied in Stand. Cyc!. Hort. 2967 as] North Carolina. 

 Distribution: North Carolina. 



Illustration: Bot. Mag. pi. 8213; Mitt. Dents. Dendr. Ges. 19: 102,/. 4; C. K. Schneid. 

 Handb. Laubh. 2:/. 600; Addisonia pi. 3; Jour. Hort. Soc. London 36:/. 134. 



7. Robinia longiloba Ashe, Bull. Charleston Mus. 14: 30. 1918. 



A shrub, 4-6 dm. high ; branches more or less pubescent w-ith curved hairs and short-stalked 

 glands; stipules filiform and deciduous, rarely becoming spinose on vigorous shoots; leaves 

 10-15 cm. long; raehis slightly pubescent or glabrate; leaflets 7-17, oval, 3.5-5 cm. long, 1.5- 

 2.5 cm. wide, rounded at each end, mucronate at the apex, glabrous above, silky-canescent 

 beneath when young, glabrate but pale in age; racemes 9-21-flowered, 7-12 cm. long; peduncle 

 and pedicels decidedly glandular-hispid; calyx puberulent and glandular-hispid, tinged with 

 purple, the tube 4-6 mm. long, the lobes ovate with slender tips, 6-8 mm. long; corolla rose or 

 purple, 18-20 mm. long; pod unknown.* (Intermediate between R. Boyntoni and R. grandi- 

 flora; perhaps a hybrid.) 



Type locality: Oconee County, South Carolina. 

 Distribution: Mountains of North and South Carolina. 



8. Robinia grandiflora Ashe, Jour. Elisha Mitchell 



Soe. 37: 176. 1922. 



A shrub. 1-5 dm. high; branches appressed-puberulent, as well as glandular-hispid; stipules 

 mostly filiform and deciduous, sometimes developing into slender short spines; leaves about 

 1.5-3 dm. long; raehis puberulent; leaflets 7-17, oval, 2-5 cm. long, 1-2.5 cm. wide, somewhat 

 silky when unfolding, glabrate on both sides when mature or somewhat silky beneath; racemes 

 5-18-flowered, 7-9 cm. long; peduncle, pedicels, and calyces grayish-puberulent or short- 

 villous, as well as glandular-hispid; calyx-tube 5—6 mm. long, the lobes 7-10 mm. long, ovate, 

 with a long slender filiform tip; corolla rose or purple, 20-23 mm. long; pod oblong, 6-S cm. 

 long, hispid with short gland-tipped hairs. 



Type locality: Grandfather Mountain. North Carolina. 

 Distribution: North Carolina to Georgia and Alabama. 



9. Robinia speciosa Ashe, Rhodora 25: 181. 1923. 



A shrub, 1-2 m. high; branches densely puberulent and sparingly bristly; stipules subulate; 

 spines wanting; leaves 1.5-2 dm. long, the raehis puberulent; leaflets 9-13, ovate or elliptic- 

 ovate, acute or sometimes obtuse, 3-5 cm. long, 1.5-2.5 cm. wide, sparingly pubescent or 

 glabrate above, villous beneath; peduncles puberulent and slightly glandular-hispid, 5-8- 

 flowered; calyx villous-puberulent, the tube 6 mm. long, the lobes ovate, acuminate, 4-5 mm. 

 long; corolla 2-2.5 cm. long, bright rose or pink; pod unknown. 



Type locality: Grandmother Mountains, North Carolina. 

 Distribution: Mountains of North Carolina. 



* Originally described as "oblong, 6-8 cm. long, pubescent with short coarse gland-tipped 

 hairs." Later the author himself has claimed that the specimen from which this description was 

 drawn belongs to R. peduticulala. 



