. An illustrated flora of the northern United States, Canada and the British possessions : from Newfoundland to the parallel of the southern boundary of Virginia and from the Atlantic Ocean westward to the 102nd meridian. Botany. 43. BRADBURYA Raf. Fl. Liidov. 104. 1817. [ Benth. .\nn. Mus. Wien, 2: 117. 1838.] Slender twining or prostrate vines, with pinnately 3-foliolate leaves (rarely 5-7-foHoIate), persistent stipules, and large showy axillary racemose or solitarj- flowers. Calyx campanu- late, its teeth or lobes nearly equal; standard orbicular, nearly flat, spurred on the back
. An illustrated flora of the northern United States, Canada and the British possessions : from Newfoundland to the parallel of the southern boundary of Virginia and from the Atlantic Ocean westward to the 102nd meridian. Botany. 43. BRADBURYA Raf. Fl. Liidov. 104. 1817. [ Benth. .\nn. Mus. Wien, 2: 117. 1838.] Slender twining or prostrate vines, with pinnately 3-foliolate leaves (rarely 5-7-foHoIate), persistent stipules, and large showy axillary racemose or solitarj- flowers. Calyx campanu- late, its teeth or lobes nearly equal; standard orbicular, nearly flat, spurred on the back near its base, clawed; wings obovate, curved; keel curved. Stamens more or less diadelphous (9 and i) ; anthers all alike. Style incurved, bearded at the around the stigma. Pod linear, flattened, nearly sessile, partially septate between the seeds, 2-valved, the valves thick- edged, longitudinally nerved along their margins, elastically dehiscent. [In honor of John Bradbury, who travelled in .\merica early in the century.] .\bout 30 species, natives of .America. Besides the following, 2 others occur in the Southern States. Type species: Bradburya scandens I. Bradburya virginiana (L. 1 Kuntze. Spurred Butterfly-Pea. Fig. 2635. B. virginiana Kuntze, Rev. Gen. PI. 164. 1891. Perennial, climbing or trailing, somewhat branched, finely rough-pubescent, 2°-4° long. Stipules linear, acute, about 2" long; petioles usually shorter than the leaves; leaflets 3. ovate, or oblong-lanceolate, stipellate, acute and mucronulate or blunt, rounded at the base, reticulate-veined, 1-2' long, 4"-i2"wide; peduncles about equalling the petioles, 1-4- flowered; bracts ovate, acute, finely striate: flowers short-pedicelled, I'-i*' long; corolla violet; calyx-lobes linear; pod linear, 4-5' long, about 2" wide, long-acuminate, its mar- gins much thickened. Dry sandy soil. New Jersey to Florida, west to .Arkansas and Texas. in several races throughout tropical Am
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