Poiretia
(named in honour of J. L. M. Poiret, a French botanist and traveller in Barbary, about 1785). SYN. Turpinia (of Persoon). ORD. Leguminosae. A genus of five species of twining or rarely sub-erect, gland-dotted, stove, perennial herbs or sub-shrubs, natives of South America, mostly Brazil, one extending to Central America and the warmer parts of Mexico. Flowers yellow, in small, axillary racemes, or paniculate at the tips of the branches; standard broadly orbiculate, reflexed; wings falcate-oblong. Pods linear. Leaves pinnate; leaflets four or rarely three, often minutely stipellate; stipules sessile or shortly decurrent at base. The species are little known in cultivation. For culture, see Pictetia.
P. scandens (climbing). fl., racemes few-flowered, shorter than the petioles. l. with two pairs of obovate, retuse leaflets, full of pellucid dots. Stems climbing, glabrous. Caraccas, 1823. Herb. SYN. Turpinia punctata.