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34, CORYNELLA DO. 



Coryndla DO. Ann. Sc. Nat. 4: 33. 1825. 

 Corynilis Si'Keng. Syt^t, 4: Cur. Post. 263. 1827. 

 Tojotropis Timcz. Bull. Soc. Nat. Mosc. 19^: 506, 1846. 



Calyx teeth very short or awl-shapod and (dongated, the two upper ones (^onnatc; 

 standard suhorhieuhu-j clawed, reflexed; wings oblong-oblique; keel slightly incurved, 

 longer than the wings and standard; upper etamen fret-; anthers uniform, with glandu- 

 lar* often colored connective; ovary stipitate, multiovulate; style upwards incrassate; 

 stigma small, slightly capitate; pod oblong, lanceolate, compresi^edj 2-valv(Hl. — 

 Shrubs; leaves paripinnate or imparipinnate; leaflets stipellate; stipulea stiff, some- 

 times spinous; floweris purple, solitary or fascicled at the older nodes of the branches; 

 l)racts small; bracteoles wanting. 



1, Corynella paucifolia DC, 



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(Urban, 284.) 



Shrub 0.5 to 2 meters high; leafiets 3 to 5-jugate, oblong or obovate-oblong, 1 to 2 

 cm. long, 0.5 to i cm. broad, coriaceous, rounded at the apex, often nuuTonate, cuneate 

 at the base, glabrous; flowers solitary or fascicled along the rachis, blue (Eggers), or 

 blue becoming white, keel violet (Sint(^nis). 



Near Yauco on the sides of Mount Duey; near San German, on a declivity at Lajas 

 Arriba.— Haiti. 



The pretty blue flowxTs of this shrub app(^ar before the leaves. 



Local name, retama. 



35. SABINE A DC. 



Sahima DC. Ann. Sc. Nat. 4: 92. 1825. 



Calyx membranous, broadly campanulate, truncate, almost entire or shortly den- 

 tal e; standard wide, suborbicular, erect or reflexed; wings oblong-falcate; keel inflc^xed, 

 obtuse, aa lung as or somewhat longer than the wings; upper stamen free, the rest 



equally long, or 5 longer and farther connate; anthers uniform; ovary stipitate, multi- 

 ovulate; style filiform, much inflexed, glabrous; stigma small, terminal; pod linear, 

 compressed, conliTuious within, 2-valved, 1li(^ valves at length spirally curved; seeds 

 rather flat, ovoid or reniform.^Trees or shrubs; leaves paripinnate; common petiole 

 terminating in a point; leaflets caducous; stipules usually setaceous, caducous; flowers 

 purple, solitary or fascicled, on the oldtn* nodes of the branches; bracts smalb brac- 



teoles wanting. 



KEY TO TUE SPECIES. 



Keel oblong; stamens subequal; style suberect. 1. S.punicea 



K(!el obliquely obovate; 5 posterior stamens one-half as long as the 

 5 anterior (all fertile); style and the upptT part of the ovary falcate- 



incurved 



2. S. florida. 



1, Sabinea punicea I'rb. 



(Urban, 285.) 



Probably shrul>by; stipules subulate, 3 to 5 mm. long; leaflets 10 to 20, obovate or 

 sometimes oval, rounded or subrotundate subapiculate at the apex, 9 to 15 (some- 

 times even 26) mm. long, 5 to 9 (sometinK^s even 16) mm. wide, glal^rous beneath or 

 thinly pilose on the middle nrrve, lateral nerves on each side 4 or 5, densely reticulate; 

 flowers in tlu^ axils of the leaves, many, <m a shortened branch, pc^dicels 0.7 to 1.5 cm. 

 long; calyx 5 mm. long, glabrous, minutely (h^ntate; standard subtriangular-orbicular. 



