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to the species of Daubentoniopsis instead. Pollard, 6 following De Candolle’s 
and Watson’s interpretation of Cavanilles’ plant, was of the opinion that 
this, being the first one described, should retain the specific name longifolia, 
and therefore proposed the name S. mexicana Poll, for Ortega’s plant. As 
the two are the same, he merely added a new synonym to our species of 
Daubentoniopsis. The yellow-flowered Daubentonia is still nameless. 
11. Daubentonia DC. Mem. Leg. 285. 1823 
Shrubs or trees, having abruptly pinnate leaves, with many leaflets and 
deciduous stipules. Flower in axillary racemes, resembling closely those of 
Sesban, but the calyx-lobes are still smaller, the calyx-tube being merely 
undulate on the margins, slightly ciliate at the teeth. The banner is without 
callosities, and the wings and keel-petals are without basal auricles. The 
pod is more or less 4-angled, but somewhat compressed. The endocarp is 
membranous and constricted around the seeds, the exocarp more or less 
spongy, the sutures are thick, each produced into two sharp ridges or wings. 
The seeds are reniform. 
Illustration: Plate XXXV K. Daubentonia punicea (Cav.) DC., 
X 1/2; I. calyx, X 2; 2. stamens, 3. pistil, 4. banner, 5. wing, 6. keel-petal, 
7. pod, 8. cross section of the same, X 1. 
The type of the genus is D. punicea (Cav.) DC., based on Piscidia 
punicea Cav. 
The genus consists of about half a dozen species, of which 3 are natives 
of South America, one of the southern United States and northern Mexico, 
Daubentonia Drummondii Rydb. {Daubentonia longifolia? T. & G. FI. N. 
Am. 1: 293. 1838), and 1 or 2 of Mexico. I have based it on D. longifolia? 
T. & G., rather than on D. longifolia DC., in part as to description, for that 
name really belongs to Daubentoniopsis longifolia, as stated before. One of 
the South American species, D. punicea , has also been found introduced in 
Florida and Mississippi. 
12. Glottidium Desv. Jour. Bot. 1: 119. 1813 
Annual herbs, having abruptly pinnate leaves, with many leaflets and 
deciduous stipules. The flowers are in axillary racemes or panicles. The 
calyx and corolla are almost exactly like those of Sesban, the banner with 
callosities, the wings and keel-petals of the same shape as those of that 
genus. The pod, however, is different, broad, stipitate, compressed, 2- 
valved, and 2-seeded, the valves at last separating in two layers, the endo¬ 
carp very thin and papery, the exocarp firmer, somewhat inflated, but not 
bladdery as in Diphysa. 
Illustration: Plate XXXV L. Glottidium vesicarium (Jacq.) Harper, 
X 2/3; 1. calyx, 2. stamens, 3. pistil, 4. banner, 5. wing, 6. keel-petal, X 2; 
7. pod, X 2/3; 8. pod in cross section, X 1; 9. seed, X 2/3. 
The genus is monotypic and was based on Aeschynomene platycarpa 
Michx., which is the same as Glottidium vesicarium (Jacq.) Harper. 
New York Botanical Garden 
6 Bull. Torrey Bot. Club 24: 154. 1897. 
