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35 cm. long, oblong or linear-oblong, thinnish, obtuse or emar- 
ginate, glabrous or minutely appressed-hirsute above, paler, some- 
what strigose or glabrate beneath, the lateral ones very short 
petioluled or nearly sessile; flowering racemes usually shorter 
than the leaves, at length elongated ; flowers rose- purple or purple, 
8-10 mm. long, sessile or very short pedicelled; bracteoles 
minute ; calyx 5 mm. long, clothed with spreading, yellowish hairs, 
the lower lobes acutish, the middle one somewhat the longest, the 
broader upper one, minutely 2-toothed ; vexillum 7-8 mm. long, 
round-ovate, apparently not indented at the apex and paler in. 
color than the other petals, the filiform claw 1 mm. long; anthers 
very small, round-oblong. Legume notseen. July-August. 
Original locality, Middle Florida. 
Type, Chapmanin Herb. Columbia College. 
Dry pine barrens, Middle Florida. 
5: Galactia Floridana Torr & Gray, Fl. N. Am. 1: 228. 1838. 
Prostrate, the whole plant hoary-pubescent ; stems 2dm.—I m. or 
more long, simple or branched, the upper part often densely and 
retrorsely white-tomentose ; stipules 2 mm. long, setaceous; in- 
ternodes usually shorter than the leaves; petioles 1-2.5 cm. long, 
-angled; leaflets 1.5-4.5 cm. long, oval or oblong-oval, obtuse, 
rarely acutish, usually mucronulate, thick and coriaceous, reticulated 
and paler beneath, the basal ones often one-foliolate; racemes 4-9 
cm. long, rarely longer than the leaves, usually many-flowered ; 
flowers 1.2-1.5 mm. long, showy, rose-purple, approximated often 
the whole length of the rhachis; bracts minute, setaceous ; brac- 
teoles close to the base of the calyx; calyx 7-8 mm. long, the 
teeth scarious-margined, long-acuminate, the upper one entirely or 
obscurely 2-toothed, the middle lower one considerably longer; 
vexillum obovate, rounded above, acute at the base, the claw 
broad and flat; anthers linear-oblong, acute at each end; legume 
4-5 cm. long, 4-5 mm. wide, linear, acuminate, tomentose. Ma- 
ture seeds not seen. June-August. 
Original locality, Tampa Bay, Florida. 
Type in Herb. Columbia College. Florida.. 
5¢. Galactia Floridana microphylla Chapm Fl. S. States, 
108. 1884. 
Smaller; petioles 5-8 mm. long; leaflets 1-2 cm. long, acutish 
or obtuse, mucronulate, the few flowers almost sessile in axillary 
clusters. Flowers and legumes ndt seen. 
Original locality, Florida. 
Type in Herb. Columbia College. 
_ Florida. 
