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34. CORYNELLA DC. 



Coryndla DC. Ann. Sc. Nat. 4: 33. 1825. 

 Corynitis Spreng. Syst. 4: Cur. Post. 263. 1827. 

 To.rotropis Turcz. Bull. Soc. Nat. Mosc. 19 2 : 506. 1846. 



Calyx teeth very short or awl-shaped and elongated, the two upper ones connate; 

 standard suborbicular, clawed, reflexed; wings oblong-oblique; keel slightly incurved, 

 longer than the wings and standard; upper stamen free; anthers uniform, with glandu- 

 lar, often colored connective; ovary stipitate, multiovulate; style upwards incrassate; 

 stigma small, slightly capitate; pod oblong, lanceolate, compressed, 2-valved- 

 Shrubs; leaves paripinnate or imparipinnate; leaflets stipellate; stipules stiff, some- 

 times spinous; flowers purple, solitary or fascicled at the older nodes of the branches; 

 bracts small; bracteoles wanting. 



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1. Corynella paucifolia DC. 



(Urban, 284.) 



Shrub 0.5 to 2 meters high; leaflets 3 to 5-jugate, oblong or obovate-oblong, 1 to 2 

 cm. long, 0.5 to 1 cm. broad, coriaceous, rounded at the apex, often mucronate, cuneate 

 at the base, glabrous; flowers solitary or fascicled along the rachis, blue (Eggers). or 

 blue becoming white, keel violet (Sintenis). 



Near Yauco on the sides of Mount Duey; near San German, on a declivity at Lajas 

 Arriba. Haiti. 



The pretty blue flowers of this shrub appear before the leaves. 



Local name, tetania. 



35. SABINEA DC. 



Sabinea DC. Ann. Sc. Nat. 4: 92. 1825. 



Calyx membranous, broadly campanulate, truncate, almost entire or shortly den- 

 tate; standard wide, suborbicular, erect or reflexed; wings oblong-falcate; keel indexed . 

 obtuse, as long as or somewhat longer than the wings;, upper stamen free, the rest 

 equally long, or 5 longer and farther connate; anthers uniform; ovary stipitate, multi- 

 ovulate; style filiform, much inflexed, glabrous; stigma small, terminal; pod linear, 

 compressed, continuous within, 2-valved, the valves at length spirally curved; seeds 

 rather flat, ovoid or reniform. Trees or shrubs; leaves paripinnate; common petiole 

 terminating in a point; leaflets caducous; stipules usually setaceous, caducous; flowers 

 purple, solitary or fascicled, on the older nodes of the branches; bracts small, brac- 

 teoles wanting. 



KEY TO THE SPECIES. 



Keel oblong; stamens subequal; style suberect. 1. S. punicea. 



Keel obliquely obovate; 5 posterior stamens one-half as long as the 

 5 anterior (all fertile) ; style and the upper part of the ovary falcate- 

 incurved. 2. S. florida. 



1. Sabinea punicea Urb. 



(Urban, 285. 1 



Probably shrubby; stipules subulate, 3 to 5 mm. long; leaflets 10 to 20, obovate or 

 sometimes oval, rounded or subrotundate subapiculate at the apex, 9 to 15 (some- 

 times even 26) mm. long, 5 to 9 (sometimes even 16) mm. wide, glabrous beneath or 

 thinly pilose on the middle nerve, lateral nerves on each side 4 or 5, densely re1 iculate; 

 flowers in the axils of the leaves, many, on a shortened branch, pedicels0.7 to L.5 cm. 

 long; calyx 5 mm. long, glabrous, minutely dentate; standard subtriangular-orbicular, 



