An illustrated flora of the 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 ed2illustratedflo02brit Year: 1913 338 CAESALPINIACEAE. 4. HOFFMANSEGGIA Cav. Icones 4: 63. pi. 392, jpj. 1797. Herbs, or low shrubs, with glandular-punctate bipinnate leaves, small stipules, and yellow flowers in terminal or lateral racemes. Calyx deeply 5-parted, the lobes nearly equal. Petals S, oval or oblong, imbricated, nearly equal. Stamens 10
An illustrated flora of the 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 ed2illustratedflo02brit Year: 1913 338 CAESALPINIACEAE. 4. HOFFMANSEGGIA Cav. Icones 4: 63. pi. 392, jpj. 1797. Herbs, or low shrubs, with glandular-punctate bipinnate leaves, small stipules, and yellow flowers in terminal or lateral racemes. Calyx deeply 5-parted, the lobes nearly equal. Petals S, oval or oblong, imbricated, nearly equal. Stamens 10, distinct, slightly declined; filaments often glandular at the base; anthers all alike, longitudinally dehiscent. Ovary nearly sessile; ovules <». Pod flat, linear, oblong or ovate, curved or straight, 2-valved, several-seeded. [In honor of Joh. Centurius, Graf Hoffmansegge, a writer on Portuguese botany.] About 20 species, natives of western America and South Africa. Besides the following, some 9 others occur in the southwestern United States. Type species: Hoffmanseggia falcaria Cav. Leaflets black-punctate ; pod obliquely oblong. i. Leaflets not punctate ; pod linear-oblong. 2. H. falcaria. I. Hoffmanseggia Jamesii T. &; G. James' Hoff- manseggia. Fig. 2443 Pomaria glandulosa Torn Ann. Lye. N. Y. 2: 193. 1826. Not Cav. I799- Hoffmanseggia Jamesii T. &; G. Fl. N. A. i : 393- 1840. Caesalpinia Jamesii Fisher, Coult. Bot. Gaz. 18: 123. 1893. Herbaceous, glandular, black-punctate and finely pubes- cent, branching at the base from a deep woody root; stems 6-12' high. Stipules subulate; leaves petioled, bipinnate; pinnae 5-7; leaflets ^19. oval or oblong, ob- tuse at each end, inequilateral, iY'-3' long; racemes terminal, or lateral (opposite the leaves), elongated; flowers yellow, distant, deflexed, 3'-4' long, the upper petal spotted with red; pod flat, obliquely oblong, black- punctate, about i' long and 5' wide, 2-3-seeded, tipped with the base of the style.
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