OF NORTH AMERICA. 
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aurea Collins herb, not of Authors. Branches 
fuscate subangular and puberulent, leaves with 
many folioles sessile oblong obtuse nearly 
smooth concolor, petiols pubescent, panicle ter- 
minal foliose lax, peduncles 2-3£lore — South 
Florida and Cuba, a small tree, habit and leaves 
like Amorpha and Virgilia, folioles 21 to 25 half 
uncial. Flowers in a lax compound raceme 
forming a panicled thyrsus, small and yellow, 
half size of Cladrastis. The podogyne is very 
remarkable by its length and white hairs. I 
add for contrast the real Yirgilia aurea of 
Africa. 
703. Yirgilia aurea Lam. t. 326. f. 1. 
Wild. Pers. Poiret Sm. Dec. Shrub, leaves 
with many folioles petiolate elliptic obtuse 
smooth glaucous beneath, raceme simple with 
small lanceolate bracts, pods shortly stipitate 
oblong compressed reticulate, seeds lenticular 
— In Abyssinia in East Africa ! thus totaly un- 
like our American plant and having the char- 
acters of the African Yirgilias, calix bilabiate, 
petals unequal, 2 cariniform, a short smooth 
stipes to the pod. Flowers golden, called white 
by mistake in Poiret. 
704. AGASTIANIS Raf. Virgilia, Sophor a, 
and Broussonetia ! of Authors. Calix bilabi- 
ate, lips 2 and 3 dentate, petals 5 unequal, vex- 
illum oval emargihate larger, 4 oblong biauri- 
culate at base, 2 connivent'cariniform. St am. 
10 unequal free persistent, pistil terete shortly 
stipitate, a style, stigma obtuse. Pod oblong 
tomentose convex on both sides. Shrub with 
odly pinnate leaves , flowers blue in simple 
racemes with bracts —' 'Phis fine shrub has been 
shuffled in several Genera, I deemed it myself 
