452 BOTANICAL GAZETTE [JUNE 
both surfaces, green and scarcely paler beneath, thin and rather veiny, 
obtuse or rounded at the base, 4 to 10™ long, half as broad; petiolules 
hirsutulous; leaves and leaflets of the branches considerably smaller ; 
stipules subulate, pubescent, 6™" long: racemes dense, borne mostly by 
twos and threes in the axils, those of the main stem often 12 to tas 
long, 50-70-flowered and mostly bearing a single short branch; rameal 
inflorescences smaller and simple; floral axes thickish ; pedicels slen- 
der, 5™™" long, commonly borne by twos and threes in the axils of 
ovate caudate-acuminate bracts of somewhat greater length: calyx 
hemispherical, roseate; the limb obliquely sub-truncate except for the 
linear-attenuate anterior tooth : petals greenish white tinged especially 
toward the end with rose-purple or magenta; the vexillum suborbicu- 
lar, 25™" long, bi-auriculate at the base and bluntly cornute at the 
apex ; wings somewhat shorter, narrowly oblong, a little broadened 
and rounded at the apex: essential organs of the genus: pods clus- 
tered, 12 to 15™ long, 1™ broad, acuminate at the apex, attenuate at 
the base, about 10-seeded ; seeds oblong, olive green, 8™ long, separa- 
ted in the pod by bi-concave sections of the silvery white pithy endo- 
carp.—Collected in flower and fruit by Miss Sadie F. Price, in rocky 
woods, Bowling Green, Warren county, southern Kentucky. The type 
specimens are in the Gray Herbarium. 
Miss Price reports that the Species often fails to set fruit. She has 
observed that the flowers are visited by the butterfly Eudamus tityrus 
and by both honey bees and bumble bees, the latter appearing to find 
the nectaries very difficult of access. The accompanying illustration 
was drawn from life by Miss Price. It isa pleasure to commemorate 
in the specific name of this noteworthy plant the work of such a care- 
ful observer of the Kentucky flora. 
The genus Apios furnishes still another instance of discrepancy 
between the theory and practice of the Rochester reformers. The 
generic name Apios, occasionally employed in prelinnzan times, was 
not used by Linnzus himself, but was revived late in the 18th cen- 
tury. In the meantime, however, Adanson founded his genus Bradlea 
(Familles des Plantes 2 : 324. 1763), which, as he himself states (p- 527), 
included the first two species of the Linnzean Glycine, namely G. Apios 
(now of the genus Apios) and G. Srutescens (referred by the reformers 
to Kraunhia). The former species, cited first by Adanson and resting 
on a plate of Cornuti, duly mentioned in Adanson’s brief description, 
must be taken as the type of Bradlea. But whether Bradlea stands for 
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