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14. Galactia savannarum sp. nov. 



A slender, somewhat woody vine, 6 dm. long or longer, rather 

 densely pubescent with brownish reflexed hairs, or the older parts 

 glabrate. Stipules lanceolate, acuminate, 1-2 mm. long; petioles 

 slender, 5-10 mm. long; leaflets I or 3, oblong, oblong-lanceolate, 

 or the terminal one oblong-oblanceolate, subcoriaceous, revolute- 

 margined, 1-3 cm. long, 6-12 mm. wide, glabrous on both sides 

 or with some scattered hairs beneath, obtuse or emarginate at 

 the apex, rounded at the base, the pubescent petiolules equal, 

 about 1.5 mm. long; inflorescence interruptedly spicate, slender, 

 5-12 cm. long, densely appressed-pubescent; flowering pedicels 

 0.5 mm. long or less; calyx 4-5 mm. long, appressed-pubescent, its 

 lobes about equalling the tube; flowers blue-purple, about 8 mm. 

 long; standard suborbicular, clawed, about 6.5 mm. broad; wings 

 and keel nearly equal in length; pod borne on a pedicel about 1.5 

 mm. long, linear, acute, densely villous, 2.5-3 cm. long, 7 mm. wide. 



Barren savannas, Oriente, Camaguey, Santa Clara. Type 



from savanna southeast of Holguin, Oriente (Shafer 1237). 



15. Galactia Jussiaeana Kunth, Mimos. 196. 1824 

 Clitoria glomerata Griseb. Cat. PI. Cub. 74. 1866. 



Pine-lands and plains, Pinardel Rio and Isle of Pines: Jamaica; 

 Hispaniola; tropical South America. Common in pine-lands on 

 the Isle of Pines, attaining a height of 6 dm. 



47. THE GENUS MACHAONIA H. & B. IN CUBA 



Type species: Machaonia acuminata H. & B. 



Fruit essentially glabrous. 



Fruit constricted below the middle. i. M. pauciflora. 



Fruit gradually narrowed to the base. 2. M. littoralis. 

 Fruit pubescent. 



Fruit sparingly pubescent, the persistent calyx-lobes long. 3. M. trifurcata. 

 Fruit densely pubescent, the persistent calyx-lobes short. 



Fruit broadly obpyramidal, 2.5 mm. long. 4. M. micro phylln. 



Fruit narrowly obpyramidal, 3-4 mm. long. 5. M. calcicola. 



I. Machaonia pauciflora Urban, Symb. Ant. 5: 512. 1908 



The species is based on part of C. Wright's 433, collected, pre- 

 sumably, in Oriente, and has not been found by us. 



2. Machaonia littoralis sp. nov. 



A shrub, about 2 m. high, with slender branches, the young 

 twigs short-pilose, leafy to their tips. Leaves rhombic-ovate to 



