Crenulate Lead Plant

Amorpha crenulata Rydberg, sp. nov
A nearly glabrous shrub, 1-1.5 m. high; branches angled, glabrous, glandular-dotted; leaves 1-1.5 dm. long; petioles 1 cm. long or less, glabrous; leaflets 25-33, oblong or linearoblong, 1.5-3.5 cm. long, less than 1 cm. wide, glabrous on both sides, paler and glandulardotted beneath, acute at both ends, or obtuse or rounded at the apex, often decidedly crenulate on the margins, less firm than in the preceding; racemes usually more or less clustered, 1-2 dm. long, glabrous; calyx about 4 mm. long, glabrous except the margins of the lobes; tube elongate-turbinate; lobes short, ciliolate, the upper two triangular-ovate, acuminate, the lower three lanceolate, subulate-pointed; banner white, cuneate-spatulate, 6 mm. long; pod 6-7 mm. long, nearly straight on the back, conspicuously glandular-dotted above the middle.
Type collected in hammocks, between Cocoanut Grove and Cutler, Florida, May 9, 1904, Stnall 6Wilson 1898 (herb. N. Y. Bot. Card.). Distribution: Subtropical Florida.