190 FABACEAE. 



mm. long; pedicels pubescent, 2-6 mm. long; calyx about 1.3 cm. long, ap- 

 pressed-pubeseent; corolla red or the standard violet, nearly 2 cm. long; 

 standard obovate, parallel with the wings; pod 3-5 cm. long, 7-9 mm. wide, 

 densely villous, several-seeded. 



Scrub and pine-lands and in coppices, from Abaco and Groat Bahama to Andros, 



New Providence. Eleuthera, Cat Island. Watling's, and Emma Chain to Fortune 



and Crooked Islands: Cuba. Recorded by Dolley as O. pendula Persoon. Red 

 Milk-tea. Catesby, 2: pi. 28. 



2. Galactia monophylla Griseb. Cat. PI. Cub. 75. 1866. 



Slender, herbaceous, appressed-pubeseent with short hairs, 8 dm. long or 

 less, twining or trailing. Stipules narrowly lanceolate or subulate, 1-3 mm. 

 long; petioles slender, 5-15 mm. long; leaflet only 1, oblong to ovate, 1-3 cm. 

 long, thin in texture, rounded or emarginate at the apex, rounded or subcordate 

 at the base, glabrous or sparingly pubescent above, appressed-pubeseent beneath, 

 the petiolule about 1 mm. long; inflorescence 1-few-flowered, not longer than 

 the leaf; pedicels 2-3 mm. long; calyx sparingly pilose, about 6 mm. long, its 

 . lanceolate teeth longer than the tube ; corolla purplish, about 1 cm. long, the 

 standard obovate, erect; pod 3-5 cm. long, about 5 mm. wide, appressed-pilose. 



Pine-lands, Great Bahama at Barnett's Point : Cuba. Slender Milk-pea. 



) ^ 3. Galactia spicifdrmis T. & G. Fl. N. A. 1: 288. 1838. 



Slender, herbaceous, twining, densely pubescent or glabrate, 2 m. long or 

 less. Petioles 1-7 cm. long; stipules subulate, 2-4 mm. long; leaflets 3, ovate 

 to elliptic or elliptic-obovate, ehartaceous or subcoriaceous, 4-7 cm. long, gla- 

 brous or nearly so above, appressed-pubeseent or velvety beneath, obtuse or 

 acute at the apex, obtuse or rounded at the base ; inflorescence usually as long 

 as the leaves or longer, several-many -flowered, sessile or peduncled; pedicels 

 1-2 mm. long; calyx pubescent, about 6 mm. long, its lanceolate teeth 2-3 times 

 as long as the tube; corolla purplish, pink or nearly white, about 11 mm. long, 

 the broadly obovate standard erect; pod 4-7 cm. long, 6-10 mm. wide, often 

 somewhat curved, more or less pubescent. 



Rocky and sandy scrub-lands and coppices, throughout the islands from Abaco 

 and Great Bahama to Andros. New Providence. Eleuthera, Watling's, and the 

 Exuma Chain to Great Ragged Island and the Anguilla Isles : Florida ; Cuba. 

 Referred by Mrs. Northrop to G. cttbensis H.B.K. : recorded by Dolley as O. fili- 

 formis Bth. The Teramnus uncinatus referred to by Hitchcock, proves to be this 

 plant. Spiciform Milk-pea. 



4. Galactia bahamensis Urban, Symb. Ant. 2: 331. 1900. 



Very slender, twining, somewhat woody, glabrate or reddish puberulent, 

 5-8 dm. long. Stipules linear-subulate, 1-2 mm. long, deciduous; petioles very 

 slender, 0.5-2.5 cm. long; leaflets 3, ehartaceous, nearly equally short-petioluled, 

 oval to elliptic or obovate, 1-2.5 cm. long, rounded or emarginate at the apex, 

 narnwed, rounded or the terminal one cuneate at the base, glabrous and 

 reticulate-veined on both sides, or sparingly pubescent beneath ; inflorescence 

 mostly longer than the leaves, several-flowered; pedicels 2-7 cm. long; calyx 

 pubescent, 6-8 mm. long, its lanceolate lobes longer than the tube; corolla about 

 1 cm. long, rose-purple, the nearly orbicular standard erect; pod 3-5 cm. long, 

 7-10 mm. wide, appressed-pubeseent. 



Scrub-lands and thickets, Rum Cay, Conception Island, Watling's, Crooked, 

 Acklin's, Fortune, Grand. Turk and Inagua : Endemic. Recorded by Hitchcock as 

 Galactia galactioides (Griseb.) Hitchc. Bahama Milk-pea. 



5. Galactia uniftora Urban, Symb. Ant. 2: 325. 1900. 



Slender, twining, somewhat woody below, densely whitish pubescent, some- 

 times 1 m. long. Stipules narrowly lanceolate, acuminate, about 2 mm. long; 



