Poitaea
(named after M. Poiteau, a French botanist, author of "Flore Parisienne," 1808-13). ORD. Leguminosae. This genus comprises only a couple of species of stove shrubs, natives of St. Domingo and Cuba. Flowers rose or purple, pendulous, in axillary racemes; pedicels solitary; standard obovate, erect; wings oblong, longer than the standard. Pods linear, flat-compressed, two-valved. Leaves impari-pinnate; leaflets many, membranous, entire, exstipellate; stipules setaceous. P. galegoides requires similar culture to Sabinia P. galegoides (Galega-like). fl. rose-purple, and, as well as the pods, nodding. June. l., leaflets twelve to fifteen pairs, 1/4in. long, oblong, mucronate, and, as well as the branches, clothed with adpressed pubescence; petioles wingless. h. 1ft. St. Domingo, 1826.