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much branched, occasionally simple; stem-leaves verticillate, 

 usually in fours, the lower ones very small, i'"'-2^'' long, the 

 rest 3'^-6'^ long, linear, acute, in some cases indistinctly resin- 

 ously punctate, those upon the branches often alternate, 

 scattered; spikes rather long-peduncled, ovoid-apiculate, 

 loose, /^'-/^' in diameter; bracts persistent; flowers pale 

 rose-color, the lower ones on pedicels about i''' long; wings 

 almost 2'^ long, ovate-lanceolate, mucronate, about 6-veined 

 and having in each tip a small ovoid callosity w^ith a more 

 or less cordate base; crest of keel small, fimbriate; stamens 

 eight in number; st}de much as in P, C7'7iciata\ capsule small; 

 seeds small, ovoid, hardly curved, dark brown, sparsel)" 

 hairy, the two caruncle-lobes as long as, or even longer tlian, 

 the seed. 



Florida, — Chapman ; Apalachicola, Herb. Chapman ; 

 1 867, Ur. " B. F. Saurman. Alabama, — Baldwin Co., C. 

 Mohr, Mississippi, — Ocean Springs, 1 889, S. M. Tracy. 

 Louisiana. — New Orleans, Urummond; Jacksonville, Drum- 

 mond. No. 131. 



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Type in Herb. Kew, N. L. B. 



10. P. BoYKiNii, Nutt. in Journ. Acad. Phil. vii. 86, (1834). 



P. bicolor, Hook. Journ. Bot. i. 194, (1834). 



Glabrous throughout; stems usually several, erect, or 

 curved and ascending, 1^-2° high, more or less angled, or 

 striate, often slender, simple or branched above; stem-leaves 

 verticillate, at least those below the middle of the stem, in 

 fours or fives, the lower obovate, about )^' long, the rest ^'- 

 l' long, elliptical, lanceolate, or linear-lanceolate, often cus- 

 pidate; upper stem-leaves, as well as those upon the branches, 

 in many cases, alternate, narrow; spikes conical, 2'^-'^'^ in 

 diameter at the base, i'-^' in length, long-peduncled; bracts 

 deciduous; flowers white, or greenish-white, almost sessile, 

 wings broad-ovate, obovate, or almost circular in outline, 

 concave, about i'^ long; crest of keel small, made up of a few 

 rather broad processes; stamens eight in number; st}de short, 

 minutely auriculate on either side of the pedicelled stigmatic 



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