Bristly Locust

Robinia nana Ell. Bot. S. C. & Ga. 2: 243. 1822
Robinia hispida nana T. & G. Fl. N. Am. I: 295. 1838.
A shrub, 2-3 dm. high; stem ascending, minutely puberulent, mostly unarmed, or with very short conic spines; leaves 1-1.5 dm. high; leaflets 7-1 1, elliptic, rounded or subtruncate at the base, rounded to acutish to the apex, 3-4 cm. long, 1.5-2 cm. wide; racemes few-flowered, sparingly glandular; calyx pilose and sparingly hispid, the tube 5 mm. long, the lobes lanceolate, caudate-acuminate, 6-8 mm. long; corolla rose-colored, 16-1 S mm. long.
Type locality: Sand-barrens near Columbia, South Carolina. Distribution: North and South Carolina, in sandy soil.

Robinia elliottii (Chapm.) Ashe; Small, Fl. SE U. S. 613. 1903.
Robinia rosea KM. Rot. S. C. & Ga. 243. 1S22.
Robinia hispida Elliottii Chapm. Fl. S. U. S. 94. 1860.
Robinia hispida rosea Ell.; Chapm. Fl. S. U. S. 94, as synonym. 1860.
t Robinia hispida inermis Petz. & Kirchn. Arb. Muse. 372. 1864.
A shrub, 0.5-2 m. high; branches canescent when young, brown and glabrate in age; stipular spines, when present, short and stout; leaves 1-2 dm. long; rachis short-villous; stipels 2-3 mm. long; leaflets 9-15, oval or elliptic, 1.5-5 cm. long, 1-3 cm. wide, villouscanescent beneath when young, in age glabrate, rounded at the base, rounded to acute and mucronate at the apex; racemes 5—10 cm. long, 5— 10-flowered; peduncle, pedicels, and calyces villous-canescent, often with a few bristles; calyx-tube 6 m. long, the lobes deltoid, acuminate, subulate-tipped, 4-5 mm. long; pod linear, hispid, 3-5-seeded.
TypB locality: Pine-barrens between Waynesborough and Wrightborough, Georgia. Distribution: North Carolina to Georgia and Alabama; apparently also Maryland.