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very obtuse at the apex, 17 to 18 mm. long, 13 or 14 mm. wide; wings oblong, erect, 

 rounded at the apex, 17 mm. long, 4 mm. wide; keel petals free above, connate below, 

 20 mm. long; upper stamen free, the rest connate to the middle, subequal; ovary 

 stipitate; legume linear, 5 to 6 mm. wide. 



Flowers and leaves appear at the same time. 



Near Mayaguez, on Mount Mesa (230 meters altitude) ; near Maricao, on the slopes of 

 Mount Alegrillo. Indigenous. 



Local name, caracolillo (Sintenis). 



2. Sabinea florida (Vahl) DC. 

 (Urban, 285.) 



Shrub 3 to 5 meters high; leaflets 8 to 15-jugate, oblong or elliptical-oblong, 8 to 15 

 mm. long, 4 to 8 mm. wide, sericeous beneath, often mucronate; calyx 3 mm. long, 

 subentire, turbinate; wings obovate, 1.3 cm. long; keel broad, semiorbicular, 17 to 18 

 mm. long, 8 to 9 mm. wide; flowers pale lilac or pale violet, axillary, fascicled, bloom- 

 ing before the leaves appear. 



Near Bayamon; near Fajardo on Mount Emajagua toward Ceiba; near Yauco on the 

 Duey River not far from Mount Rodadero; near Sabana Grande at the cataract of 

 Estero River; near Cabo Rojo, in thickets on the seashore around Puerto Real; near 

 Quebradillas, and near Manati, in thickets at Rio Arriba Saliente. Crabb Island 

 (West), St. Thomas, St. John, Dominica (Grisebach). 



Local name, retama. 



36. CRACCA Benth. 



Cracca Benth.; Oersted, Kjoeb. Vidensk. Meddel. 8. 1853, not L. 1753. 

 Benthamantha Alef. Bonplandia 10: 264. 18(32. 

 Brittonamra O. Kuntze, Rev. Gen. 1: 164. 1891. 



Calyx with subequal subulate-acuminate laciniae; petals subequal; standard orbicu- 

 lar or reniform with refl^xed sides; wings oblong-obovate; keel wide, acute or slightly 

 beaked, inflexed; ovary sessile, with numerous seeds; style slightly stiff, inflexed, 

 bearded; stigma capitate; pod linear, compressed, 2-valved, septate, outer surface 

 -with impressed transverse lines; seeds almost square. Perennials with imparipinnate 

 leaves; leaflets stipellate; flowers yellowish or whitish in axillary racemes. 



1. Cracca caribaea (Jacq.) Benth. a 

 (Urban, 285.) 



Shrub 0.5 to 2 meters high, sericeous-pubescent (rarely glabrescent); leaflets 7 to 

 9-jugate, lanceolate-oblong, 1.6 to 2 cm. long, mucronate; racemes peduncled, few- 

 flowered; flowers 1 to 1.2 cm. long, white, standard rose-white or sometimes rose 

 colored; calyx lobes twice as long as the tube, the lowest" longer and exceeding half 

 the keel. 



Near Cabeza de San Juan, in shady ravines toward the sea; near Fajardo in coast dis- 

 tricts; nearCoamo, in meadows bet ween Serillosand Salinas, in the valley of El Fuerte 

 River in rocky places, and in woods near Mount San Ildefonso; near Penuelas along 

 roads; near Guanica, in thickets on the lagoons and in forests at Mount Ensenada. 

 Haiti, St. Thomas, St. Croix, St. Martin (Stockholm Herbarium), St. Bartholomew 

 (Euphrasen), Antigua (Griseliaeh |, Guadeloupe, Desirade (Grisebach), Dominica (do. |, 

 Martinique, St. Lucia (Grisebach ), St . Vincent, Bequia. Central America, Venezuela, 

 Ecuador. 



a Cook and Collins, p. 128, as Cracca aniloides. 



