PSORALEA MELILOTOIDES. 



MELILOT PSORALEA. 



Diadelphia Decandtia, Linn. Lcguminosse, Juss. 



GENERIC CHARACTER. 



Calix 5-cleft or 5-toothed, the lower segment mostly elongated. Stamina diadel- 

 phous. Legume the length of the calix, 1-seeded, subrostrate, and valveless. 



SPECIFIC CHARACTER. 



Stem pubescent, erect ; leaves ternate ; folioles oblong-lanceolate, entire, obtuse, with 

 a cuspid point; flowering spike oblong, on a very long peduncle; bracts 

 broad-cordate, acuminate, and deciduous ; carina very short ; legume round- 

 ish, rugose, with transverse, serpentine nerves. B. 



SYNONYMS. 



Melilotus flore violacea, odore remisso, Clayt. n. 103. 



Trifolium psoraloides, Walt. Fl. Car. 184. 



Psoralea melilotoides, foliis omnibus ternatis, foliolis lanceolatis, pedunculis folio 



longioribus spicatis ; spicis lineari-lanceolatis, bracteis calice longioribus. 



Solander MS. (sub. P. Asphalitite.) Bot. Regis. 

 P. melilotoides, Michaux, Fl. Borcali-Am. 

 P. melilotus, Persoon, Syn. 2. 347. 

 Melilotus psoraloides, Nutt. Gen. 2. 104. 

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