Amorpha herbacea var. floridana (Rydb.) Wilbur

Amorpha floridana Rydberg, sp. nov
A shrub, about 1 m. high; branches sparingly short-villous, brown and sharply angled; leaves 6-15 cm. long, mostly spreading; petioles 3-S mm. long, as well as the rachis sparingly villous; leaflets 27-41, oblong or elliptic, rounded at each end, 1-2 cm. long, 3-7 mm. wide, strongly reticulate, glabrous above, sparingly pubescent, paler, and conspicuously glandulardotted beneath; petiolules 1 mm. long; racemes numerous, clustered, 5-15 cm. long, villous; pedicels 1-2 mm. long; calyx 3 mm. long; tube grooved, slightly puberulent or glabrous, conspicuously glandular-dotted; lobes villous-ciliate, short, the upper two broadly triangular, acute, the lower three lance-triangular, the lowest one slightly longer; banner purple, broadly obovate-spatulate, 4 mm. long.
Type collected in Florida (no date nor locality given), Chapman (herb. Columbia Univ.).