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429 (1824). Glycine striata Jacq. Hort. Vindob. i. 32, t. 76 

 (1770). Jacquin's type from Hort. Vindob. is in Herb. Mus. 

 Brit. A specimen in Herb. Linn, has a ticket attached with 

 Jacquin's name written by himself. 



Houstounl Lane iu Herb. Sloane clxii. 7S ! Distinl Forsterl Macfadycn 

 Fairfield, Wullschlaegel ; Kingston, Hitchcock ; Yardley Chase, 1600 ft. ; 

 Luaua Point ; Great Goat Is. ; Ferry R. ; Hope grounds ; Harris ! near 

 Angels Pen, Harris & Britton ! Port Henderson, Ridley ! Fl. Jam. 9677, 

 9926, 10,162, 11,791, 12,288. Cuba, Hispaniola, Mona, Porto Kico, St. 

 Thomas, Guadeloupe, Tobago. 



Stem twining, climbing over low shrubs, pubescent or glabrate. Leaflets 

 elliptical, seldom ovate-elliptical, petiolule of the terminal leaflet 4-12 mm. 1.; 

 stipules awl-shaped, 2-4 mm. 1. Inflorescence 2-8(-15) cm. 1., with several 

 flowers in the upper half; peduncle 1-4 '5 cm. 1. Corolla, standard purple 

 or rosy, marked with longitudinal lines, obovate ; wings and keel about as 

 long as the standard. Stamens, anthers versatile, narrowly oblong ; upper- 

 most filament free. Seeds kidney-shaped, 3 '5-4 mm. 1. 



Urban (torn. cit. 321, 322) distinguishes five varieties ; of these var. 

 tomcntosa agrees with Jacquin's type of tbe species; var. cubensis is a less 

 hairy form, G. cubensis H. B. & K., G. filiformis Griseb, loc. cit. (in part) 

 (I860) (non Benth.). 



The specimens from Luana Point and Angels Pen belong to var. 

 cubensis, the rest agree better with var. tomcntosa. 



3. G. uniflora Urb. Symb. Ant. ii. 325 (1900) ; leaflets 1-2 

 (8-3) cm. 1., elliptical, obovate-elliptical, or oblong-elliptical, 

 somewhat unequal, the terminal sometimes longer by one-third, 

 with short soft adpressed hairs on both sides or glabrescent, net- 

 veined on both surfaces ; inflorescence short, 1-3-flowered ; 

 peduncle (very short to 7 mm. 1.) and pedicel (to 4 mm. 1.) 

 puberulous; calyx pubescent, 6 mm. 1., segments about 1-i- times 

 as long as the tube; standard 8-9 mm. 1.; pod 3-4 cm. 1., 

 4-4 -5 mm. br., densely pubescent with adpressed hairs.- 

 G. angustifolia Hitchc. in Eep. Miss. Bot. Gard. (1893) 77 (fide 

 Urb. loc. cit., non Kunth). G. tenuiflora Hitchc. torn. cit. 78 (fide 

 Urb., non Wiyht & Am.). 



Lititz Savanna, 300-900 ft., Harris ! Fl. Jam. 11,727. Bahamas, Cuba. 



Stem very slender, twining amongst grasses, white-puberulous. Leaflet* 

 elliptical, obovate-elliptical, or oblong-elliptical, petiolule of the terminal 

 leaflet 2-4 mm. 1. ; stipules awl-shaped, 1-5-2 mm. 1. Corolla pale lilac. 

 Stamen free above the base, shortly united in the middle to the rest. S< 

 olive-green with dark-purplish markings, 2-5-3 mm. 1. Possibly this is 

 only a small form of G. dnbia DC. 



4. G. parvifolia A. lik-li. in ti<i<jra Cub. x. 176 (1M:>) A: E*. 

 FL Cub. 41 I : leaflets differing much in number, form, and si/-. 

 3 or 1, linear to oblong or the lowest sometimes elliptical or 

 elliptical-oblong, unequal, the terminal sometimes twice as Ionic. 

 5-8 cm. 1., glabrous and prominently net- veined on the upper 

 surface, more or l-ss puberulous beneath; inflorescence short, 

 1-3-flowered; peduncle ('4-1 cm. 1.) and pedicel (1-3 nun. 1.) 



