46 FLOKA OF JAMAICA Centroserna 



Comin. Let/urn. Gen. 55. Clitoria virginiana Sw. Obs. 282 (non L.) ; 

 Macf. Jain. /. 252. (Fig. 12.) 



In fl. and fr. Nov.- Jan. ; BrougUton \ Macfadijen ! Prior \ March \ 

 Hope grounds, Miss Wood ! also Harris ! Constant Spring, Port Morant, 

 Hitchcock. West Indies, tropical continental America. 



Peduncles several-flowered, 4-7 cm. 1. Bracteoles ovate-elliptical, about 

 8 cm. 1. Flowers pale lavender and white. Calyx (incl. lowest segment) 

 1'1-1'2 cm. 1. Standard spurred, densely puberulous outside. Pod 

 8-10 cm. 1. 



3. C. virglnianum Benth. Comm. Legum. Gen. 56 (1837); 

 leaflets narrowly ovate, oblong, or linear-lanceolate, glabrous, 

 2-7 cm. 1. ; bracteoles shorter than the calyx ; segments of calyx 

 very long, linear-lanceolate, subequal, distant ; standard 3 cm. br. ; 

 pod 4 mm. in diam. with ribs close to and forming part of the 

 margin. Benth. in Ann. Wien. Mus. ii. 120 & in Fl. Bras. xv. 

 pt. 1, 132; Griseb. op. cit. 193; Url>. loc. cit. Phaseolus sylvaticus 

 &c. Sloane Cat. 71 &, Hist. i. 181. Clitorius trifolius flore 

 minore cseruleo DHL Elth. 90, t. 76. Clitoria foliis ternatis 

 calycibus campanulatis Gron. Virg. 83 C. virginiana L. Sp. PL 

 753 (1753). C. calcarigera Salisb. Par ad. Lond. t. 51 (1806). 

 Bradburya virginiana Kimtze Rev. Gen. PL i. 164 (1891). The 

 type, Clayton's specimen in Herb. Gronovius, is in Herb. Mus. Brit. 



In fl. and fr. Oct.-Feb. ; Sloane Herb. iii. 73, 74 ! Lane in Herb. 

 Sloane clxii. 80 ! De Ponthieu ! Distin ! Cuming ! Pedro plain, Purdie ! 

 Gordon Town, Ball ! Constant Spring, Campbell \ also Hitchcock ; Porus, 

 Lloyd; above Gordon Town, 1000 ft. ; Hope grounds, 700 ft. ; Harris ! 

 Bermuda, Bahamas, West Indies, continental America from the southern 

 United States to Argentina, western tropical Africa. 



Peduncles solitary or 2-3 together, 3-1-flowered, l-2'5(-5) cm. 1. 

 Bracteoles ovate, '6-1 cm. 1. Flowers lavender-blue or white turning pale 

 blue. Calyx -8-1 '2 cm. 1. ; tube short, about 2 mm. 1. ; teeth -6-1 cm. 1. 

 Standard spurred, sparsely puberulous outside. Pod 8-12 cm. 1. 



13. CLITORIA L. 



Herbs or shrubs with twining stems (in Jamaican species). 

 Bracteoles large, ribbed, persistent, less than half as long as the 

 calyx. Calyx campanulate-tubular, with 5 segments or teeth. 

 Standard large, emarginate-roundish at the apex, narrowed at 

 the base. Style more or less horizontally dilated at the apex, 

 and with a row of hairs on the inner face. Pod compressed, 

 without ribs (C. Ternatea), or with a rib near the middle 

 (C. rubiginosa). 



Species 30, natives of the tropics. 



Leaflets 5-7. Flowers blue 1 . C. Ternatea. 



Leaflets 3. Flowers white, streaked 2. C. rubiginosa. 



1. C. Ternatea L. Sp. PL 753 (1753); leaflets in 2-3 (4-5) 

 pairs; pod without ribs. Bot. Mag. t. 1542; Benth. in Journ. 



