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LEGTJMINOSJE. 



GYMNOCLADUS, Lam. Coffee-Tree. 



Flowers polygamo-dicecious, tomentose. Calyx narrowly funnel-shaped, 

 6-cleft. Petals 5. Stamens 10, separate. Style long, exserted. Legume 

 woody, pulpy within, few-seeded, the seeds large, compressed. — A slender 

 tree, with thick thornless branches, very large bipinnate leaves, and small 

 whitish flowers in axillary racemes. 



G. Canadensis, Lam. — Rich woods, Tennessee, and northward. May. 

 — Leaves 2° -3° long. Leaflets ovate, the lowest pair borne on the common 

 petiole, and larger. Legume G'-IO' long, 2' wide, 6-8-seeded. 



CffiSALPINIA, L. 



Sepals unequal, united into a cup-shaped base. Petals 5, unequal, clawed. 

 Stamens 10, all fertile, the long filaments ascending, and hairy at the base. 

 Style filiform. Legume unarmed, compressed, wingless, 1- many-seeded. — 

 Trees or shrubs, with abruptly bipinnate leaves, and racemose mostly yellow 

 flowers. 



C. paueiflora, Benth. & Hook. Glabrous, armed witli rather stout stipu- 

 lar and stipellate recurved spines; pinna? 2-4 pairs; leaflets 3-5 pairs, 

 obovate, rounded at each end (4"- 5" long) ; racemes simple, loosely few- 

 flowered ; sepals obovate-oblong, little shorter than the yellow corolla and 

 the slightly exserted stamens ; legumes short, short-stipitate, obliquely 

 acuminate, 1 -few-seeded. — Big Pine Key, South Florida (Curtiss). — A 

 low shrub. 



C. Bonduc, Benth. & Hook. Leaflets 5-8 pairs, obliquely oval, mucro- 

 nate, the stipular thorns 2-3; racemes long, densely flowered ; calyx-lobes 

 downy within, shorter than the long recurved deciduous bracts. (Guilandina, 

 Juss.). — South Florida. — A tall shrub. Leaflets £'- 1' long. Racemes 1° 

 long. Flowers yellow. 



PARKINSONIA, Plum. 



Sepals 5, equal, recurved. Petals 5, ovate, the upper one roundish, long- 

 clawed. Stamens 10. Style filiform. Legume linear-oblong, compressed- 

 moniliform, several-seeded. — A spiny shrub. Leaves pinnate, with the 

 petiole broadly winged, the numerous leaflets small, often deciduous or abor- 

 tive. Flowers showy, yellow, in terminal racemes. 



P. aculeata, L. — Key West, escaped from cultivation. 



DESMANTHUS, Willd. 



D. brachylobus, Benth. Smooth ; stem erect; pinna? 6-14 pairs, each 

 with a minute gland at the base; leaflets numerous, linear; heads globose; 

 stamens 5; legumes oblong, curved, 4-6 seeded. (Darlingtonia, DC.) — 

 Mississippi (Carpenter), and northward. 



