NEOPHYTON. 
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free equal, pistil stipitate, style curved, stigma 
acute, pod stipitate smooth subglobose acumi- 
nate swelled, seeds reniform. Leaves simple 
amplexica u le reticulate , flowers axillary soli- 
tary peduncled yellow— Genus quite distinct by 
habit, petals, stamens, pod &c which has been 
shuffled by turns into Crotalaria , Soph ora. 
Podalyria , Itafnia , Baptism ! 5 Genera . . ! 
my name means around stem . Perennial and 
vernal. 
337. Pericaulon perfolxatum 11 af. (5 Gen- 
era do of Authors !) stem terete, subramose, 
leaves perfoliate rounded elliptic both ends ob- 
tuse reticulate smooth glaucous — Carolina to 
Florida, sandy hills, aspect of Buplevrum per- 
foliatuin, flowers pale yellow. My specimens 
are from Kin, in Collins herb. Biilen and 
L. describe it with cordate ovate leaves, do 
they mean another sp ? P. cordatum Raf . . . 
338. Pericaulon microphylum Raf. Bapti- 
sia do Nut. rar. 53. stem ramose, leaves sessile 
obovate rounded, upper amplexicaule coales- 
cent with rounded stipules — West Florida and 
Alabama, lately described by Nuttal, flowers 
and pod as in the last. 
339. EAPLOSIA Raf. (to be simple) diff. 
Pericaulon, cal. camp. 4fid subequal, petals un- 
equal on long claws, keel large much longer ob- 
tuse, wings oblong, vexillum obovate re volute, 
ovary conical desinent into a strait subulate style, 
stigma acute smooth. Pod substipitate conical 
smooth. Leaves simple sessile smooth reticu- 
late, stipides none , flowers racemose hracle- 
ate yellow . — A fine distinct Genus by habit, pe- 
tals, pod &c : Nuttal did not see the flowers, 
the leaves become fuscate in drying, lucid 
above, dull beneath. 
