200 CONTRn'>UTIONS FROM THE NATIONAL HKRBARTUM. 



Near lUiyamon in forests on the hank of the river; Sierra de Naguabo, near ^finas 

 de Cobrc at Kio Blanco; near Yabucoa, in the primeval forest on Mount Sombrero 

 at La Pandura; between Adjiinta^s and Ponce, in shady localities by the river at Coral 

 Vicjo. — Cuba, Jamaica (Griticbach), Haiti, St< Kittcs, Guadeloupe, Martinique, 

 St. Vincent* Panama, Brazil. 



Local names, viatOj tortera. 



58, CALOPOGONIUM Desv, 



Calopo(joniumT)ESY. Ann. Sc, Nat, 9; 423. 182G. 

 Stenolobium Benth. Ann. Wien. Mus. 2: 125. 1838. 

 Cyanostremma Benth.; Hook. & Arn. l?ot. lieech. 415. 1841. 



Calyx campanulate or short tubuliform, (he 2 upper toetli free or more or less connate; 

 standard ol>ovate, the base with inflexcnl auricles; wings narrow^ adhering to the keel; 

 keel obtuse, usually shorter than the wings; upper stamen free; ovary sessile, mulLi- 

 ovulate; style slender; stigma terminal, capitate; pud linear, compressed or at last 

 convex, 2-valved, septate; seeds orbicular, somewhat flat. — Iligh-climbing herbs or 

 undershrubs; leaves pinnate; leaflets 3, slipelhite; flowers small or moderately largo, 

 narrow, blue or vioh^t, subsessile, f^u^cicled, forming an elongated raceme; l.>ractis or 

 bracteoles small, caducous. 



1, Calopogonium orthocarpum Urb 



(Urban, 'M)4.) 



A twining plant with subligneous stem; branchc^g, petioles, and pedunch^s densely 

 rusty-])ilo8e; stipules oblong-lanceolate or lanceolate, acuminate; terminal leafiest 

 ovate-rhomboid or short-ovate, acute; leaflets 8.5 to 10 cm. long, 3 to 8 cm. wide, both 

 sides with appres^ed hairs; inflorescence racemose, sometimes elongated, sometimes 

 very short, up to 15 cm. long; calyx 6 to 8 mm. deep, campanulate, tlie teeth longer 

 than the tube, lanceolate, with subulate setaceous apex; corolla blue; standard ubu- 

 vate, 8 mm. long; stamens 0; pod linear, erect or suberect, 2.5 to 3.5 cm. long, 4 mm. 

 wide, densely rusty-pubescent, 5 to S-seeded; seeds shortly and subobliquely rectan- 

 gular, convex, pale brown. 



Near Bayamon in the fields at Guinabo; near Caguas; near Yauco in the thicket 

 between the River Duey and Blount Ilodadero; near Kincon, about Hacienda Dioplo; 

 near Cabo Uojo, in the plains at Joyuda; near Mayaguez. — Haiti. 



Local name, jicama. 



59. GALACTIA P. Br. 



Galactia P. Bk. Hiist. Jam. 298. 1756. 

 Odonia Beutol. Lucubr. Herb. 35. 1822. 

 Sweetia DC. Prod. 2: 381. 1825, 



Calyx campanulate, the segments long-acuminate, (he lowest usually elongate, the 

 lateral ones smaller than the upper otio and tlie lower rme; standard ovate or orljicular, 

 Rubappendiculate or on the edges at the base inflexed ; wings long and narrow^ obovate, 

 adhering to the keel; keel equaling or exceeding thu wings; upper stamen free or con- 

 nate with the others at the middle; anthers uniform; ovary sessile or substipitate, 

 with numerous ovules; style filiform, with small terminal stigma; pod linear, straight 

 or incurved, fiat, very rarely convex on both sides, 2-Viih (.-d. pulpy or thinly septate 

 between the seeds. — Prostrate or climbing lu^bs or erect shrubs; leaves pinnate; leaf- 

 lets 3, raroly 1, 5, or 7, stipellate; bracts small, setaceous, deciduous; fiowers small 

 or moderately large, rarely large, red, violet or white, in axillary racemes clustered 



