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54. Galactia Floridana longeracemosa np. var. : 
Stouter, the leaves and racemes erect on the prostrate stems; 
leaflets 2.5-4.5 cm. long, 2-3 cm. wide, oval-oblong, conspicu- 
ously retuse, glabrate above, somewhat strigose-pubescent be- 
neath; flowers 1.2-1.5 cm. long, bright rose-purple, 2-4 together 
at regular intervals above the middle of the rhachis; calyx becom- 
ing glabrate. Legume not seen. 
Florida. J. H. Simpson. 1889. 
6. Galactia fasciculata n. sp. 
Prostrate or climbing high on bushes; stems I-2 m. or more 
long, terete, clothed with a close fine retrorse-canescent tomen- 
_ tum ; stipules minute, subulate; internodes longer than the leaves, 
4-6 cm. or more; petioles 5-10 mm, long; leaflets round-oblong 
or sub-orbicular, 1.5—3 cm. long, 1.5-2.5 cm. broad, retuse; finely 
appressed silky-pubescent above, appressed silky-villous and paler 
beneath; racemes several, fascicled in the axils of the leaves, form- 
ing conspicuous clusters at the slightly enlarged nodes; flowers 
pale lilac-purple, 1.5 cm. long, solitary or two together, scattered 
along nearly the whole length of the somewhat flexuous rhachis; 
bracts minute; bracteoles 1 mm. long, subulate, acuminate, close 
to the base of the calyx; calyx 8 mm. long, ‘clothed with short, 
white, silky hairs, the lobes acuminate, the upper one apparently 
entire, the middle lower one the longest; vexillum 1.5 cm. long, 
oblong-obovate, tapering to the base of the claw, obtuse or acutish 
at the apex, the wings very slender; authers linear-oblong, obtuse. 
Legume not seen. 
Conspicuous for its roundish leaflets, and its numerous fascicled 
Often branched and flexuous racemes. 
' Type, Nash, no. 2480 in Herb. Columbia College, from 
Tampa, Florida. 
7. Galactia canescens (Scheele) Benth. Ann. Wien. Mus. 2: 126. 
1838. 
Prostrate, creeping on the ground, canescent throughout, many 
of the racemes becoming subterranean and bearing globular Ir 
seeded pods: stems several from the same slender, ligneous root, 
branched at the base; stipules 1-2 mm. long, subulate; inter- 
nodes 1-15 cm. long; petioles 3-7 cm. long; leaflets 2-4 cm. 
long, 1.5—-3 cm. wide, broadly ovate or oval, retuse, thick and cori- 
aceous, slightly hirsute above, silky canescent-pubescent, much 
whiter and the veins reticulated beneath; peduncles slender, 
_ elongated, few-flowered; bracts and bracteoles minute, subulate ; 
