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Near Bayanion in tluckets; nc^ar Coamo, in the valloy of El Fiierte Ilivor; near 

 Pt^pino; on declivities at Eneas; TK^ar ^laricao in thickets on the river hank; near 

 Caho llojo in copses; near Mayaguez; near Ana.^co, in thickets at Calvache; near 

 Rincon in coast districts; near Aguadilla^ at Barriu Victoria. — Cuba, Jamaica, Haiti, 

 Antigua (Grisebach), Guadeloupe, Martininque, St. Vincent, Trinidad. Wid(^]y 

 distributed in tropical America. 



Local name, for de pito. 



3. Centrosema virginianum (L.) r>enth. « 



(Urban, 300.) 



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Stems slender, firm, herbaceous, widely climljing; peduncle axillary, 1, sometimes 

 4-llowercd; calyx 9 to 12 mm. deep; standard 2.5 cm. in diameter; flowers blue or 

 white becoming blue; pod 7.5 to 10 ciu. long. ^.^ to 4.4 nun. broad, nearly straight. 



Near Bayamon in thickets and grassy places, near Yabucoaj on the declivities of 

 Mount Canto de Gallo; near Tayt^y, at Morillos Brook; near Ouanicaj in meadows at 

 Montalba and between hn Boca and Marinas; near Salinas de Cabo Rojo on the edge 

 of the woods; n<^ar Mayaguez, on the declivities of Mount Mesa; near Utuado, in 



thickets at Cayuco, — Bermuda (Ilemsley), Bahama, Cuba, Jamaica, Haiti, St. Thomas, 

 St. Croix, St. John (loggers), St. Martin (Stockholm Herbarium), St. Bartholomew 

 (<lo.), St. Kitts, Antigua (Grlsebach), Guadeloupe, Dominica (Grisebach), Martinique, 

 St. Vincent, Bequia (Kew Bull. No. 81, p. 240), Mustique, Canouan (do.), St. Lucia 

 (Gridebach), Barbados, Grenada, Tol)ago, Margarita. A common tropical American 

 species, extending north to Maryland. Also in western tropical Africa. 



Centrosema virginlanitvi resenil)les C. pfihrscens closely, 1)ut has a much narrower pod. 



Local name, eonchiUi Virginia (C()ok and Collins). 



3a. Centrosema virg-inianum ang-ustifolium (DC.) Griseb. 



(Urban, 301.) 



Leaflets linear, or the inferior oldong. 



Near Mayaguez, on Blount Mesa. — l>ahama, Cuba, Jamaica, Haiti, St, Martin (figure 

 in Stockholm Herbarium), Antigua (Grisebach), Martini^pic. 



54. TERAMNUS P. B>r. 



Tn-nmnus P. liii. Hist. Jam. 2110. 175r>. 



Calyx campanulate, the two upper tr-eth connate or separate, the others subequal; 

 standard obovate, narrowed at the l>asc, exappc^ndiculati?; wings narrow, adhering to 

 the keel; keel shorter than the wings, almost straight, obtuse; stamens all connate, the 

 5 alternate anthers small, abortive; ovary sessile, nuiltiovulate; style short, thick, 

 beardless; stigma capitate; pod linear, 2-valved, septate bi^tween the seeds, rostrate. — 

 SlendiT twining herbs; loaves pinnate*; leaflets 3; stipules small; flowers miiuite, in 

 racemes or fascich^s in tlu^ axils or in pairs or fascicles ahmg the rachis; bracts small; 

 bncteoles linear t>r lanceolat(% striate. 



1. Teramnus uncinatus (L.) Sw. 



(rrbnn, 301.) 



Twining suffrutescent slender herbs; leaves pinnatoly 3-foliolate; petioles 4 to 6 cm. 

 long; leaflets oblong-lanceolate, 5.5 to 8 cm. long, 2.25 to 3 cm. wide, pubescent aboYe, 

 sericeous beneath; flowers in long racemes, small, white or rose-colored, later pale 



" Cook and Collins, p. 94^ as Bradburya virginiana. 



