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very obtuse at tlio apex, 17 to 18 mm. long, 13 or 14 mm. wide; wings obLmg, erect, 

 rounded at the apex, 17 nun. long, 4 mm. wide; keel petals free above, connate below, 

 20 mm. long; upper stamen free, the rest connate to the middle, subeciual; ovary 

 atipitate; legume linear, 5 to 6 mm. wide. 



riowerri and leaves appear at the same time. 



Near Mayaguez, on ilount ilesa (230 meters altitude); near Maricao, on the slopes of 



Mount Alegrillo. Indigc^nous. 

 Local name, caracoUHo (Sintenis). 



2. Sabinea florida (Vahl) DC. 



(Urban,. 285.) 



Shrub 3 to 5 meters high; leaflets 8 to 15-jugate, oblong or elliptical -ol.)long, 8 Lo 15 

 nun. long, 4 to 8 nun. wide, sericeous beneath, often mucronate; calyx 3 mm. long, 

 subentire, turl)inate; wings obovatc, 1.3 cm. long; keel broad, semiorbicular, 17 to 18 

 mm. long, 8 to 9 mm. wide; flowers pale lilac or pale violet, axillary, fascicled, bloom- 

 ing before the leaves appear. 



Near Bayamon; near Fajardo on ^[ount Emajagua toward Ceiba; near Yauco on the 

 Duey River not far frum Mount Rodadero; near Sabana Grande at the cataract of 

 Estero River; nt-ar Cabo Rojo, in thickets on the seashore around Puerto Real; near 

 Quebradillas, and n<^ar Manati, in thickets at Rio' Arriba Saliente.— Crabb Island 

 (West), St. Thomas, St. John, Dominica (Grisebach). 



Local name, rctama 



36. CRACCA Renth. 



Cracca Bkxth.; Oersted, Kjoeb. Vi<\ensk. Meddeh S. 1853, nut L. 1753. 

 Benthamoniha \ia:f. Bonplandia 10: 2{)4. IS02. 

 BnllonamraO. Kuntze, Rev, Gen. 1: 164. 1891. 



Calyx with subinpial subulate-acuminate laciniae; petals sul)equal; standard orbicu- 

 lar or rcniform with reflexed sides; wings obh>ng-ol^ovate; keel wide, acute or slightly 

 beaked, inflexed; ovary sessile, with numerous seeds; style slightly stiff, inflexed, 

 bearded; stigma capitate; pod linear, compressed, 2-valved, soptate, outer surface 

 with impressed transverse^ lines; seeds almost square. — Perennials with imparipinnate 

 leaves; leaflets stipellate; flowers yellowish or whitish in axillary racemes. 



1, Cracca caribaea (Jacq.) Renth.o 



(Urban, 285.) 



Shrub 0.5 to 2 meters high, sericeous-pubescent (rarely glahrescent); leaflets 7 to 

 9-jugate, lanceolate-oblong, 1.6 to 2 cm. long, mucronate; racemes peduncled, few- 

 flowered; flowers 1 lo 1.2 cm. long, white, standard rose-white or s^)inetimes rose 

 colored; calyx lobi'S twice as long as the tube, the lowest longer and exceeding half 



the keel. 



Near Cabe^a de San Juan, in shady ravines toward the sea; near Fajardo in coast dis- 

 tricts; near Coamo, in meadows between Serillos and Salinas, in the valley of El Fuerte 

 River in ro(*ky i>laces, and in woods near Mount San lldefonso; ni>ar Penuelas along 

 roads; near Guanica, in thickets cm llie lagoons and in forests at Mount Ensenada. — 

 Haiti, St. Thomas, St. Croix, St. Martin (Stoekholm Herbarium), St. Bartholomew 

 (Euphrasen), Antigua (Grisebach), Guadeloupe, Desirade (Grisel>ach), Dominica (do.), 

 Martinique, St. Lucia (Grisebach), St. Vincent, Requia. Central America, Venezuela, 

 Ecuador. 



a Cook and Collins, p. 128, as Cracca anUoides. 



