206 CONTRIBUTIONS FROM THE NATIONAL HERBARIUM. 



Near Bayamon in forests on the bank of the river; Sierra de Naguabo, near Minas 

 de Cobre at Rio Blanco; near Yabucoa, in the primeval forest on Mount Sombrero 

 at La Pandura; between Adjuntas and Ponce, in shady localities by the river at Coral 

 Viejo. Cuba, Jamaica (Grisebach), Haiti, St. Kitts, Guadeloupe, Martinique, 

 St. Vincent. Panama, Brazil. 



Local names, mato, tortera. 



58. CALOPOGONIUM Desv. 



Calopogonium Desv. Ann. Sc. Nat. 9: 423. 1826. 

 Stenolobium Benth. Ann. Wien. Mus. 2: 125. 1838. 

 Cyanostremma Benth.; Hook. & Arn. Bot. Beech. 415. 1841. 



Calyx cam panulate or short tubuliform, the 2 upper teeth free or more or less connate; 

 standard obovate, the base with inflexed auricles; wings narrow, adhering to the keel; 

 keel obtuse, usually shorter than the wings; upper stamen free; ovary sessile, multi- 

 ovulate; style slender; stigma terminal, capitate; pod linear, compressed or at last 

 convex, 2-valved, septate; seeds orbicular, somewhat flat. High-climbing herbs or 

 undershrubs; leaves pinnate; leaflets 3, stipellate; flowers small or moderately large, 

 narrow, blue or violet, subsessile, fascicled, forming an elongated raceme; bracts or 

 bracteoles small, caducous. 



1. Calopogonium orthocarpum Urb. 



(Urban, 304.) 



A twining plant with subligneous stem; branches, petioles, and peduncles densely 

 rusty-pilose; stipules oblong-lanceolate or lanceolate, acuminate; terminal leaflet 

 ovate-rhomboid or short-ovate, acute; leaflets 3.5 to 10 cm. long, 3 to 8 cm. wide, both 

 sides with appressed hairs; inflorescence racemose, sometimes elongated, sometimes 

 very short, up to 15 cm. long; calyx 6 to 8 mm. deep, campanulate, the teeth longer 

 than the tube, lanceolate, with subulate setaceous apex; corolla blue; standard obo- 

 vate, 8 mm. long; stamens 9; pod linear, erect or suberect, 2.5 to 3.5 cm. long, 4 mm. 

 wide, densely rusty-pubescent, 5 to 8-seeded; seeds shortly and subobliquely rectan- 

 gular, convex, pale brown. 



Near Bayamon in the fields at Guinabo; near Caguas; near Yauco in the thickel 

 between the River Duey and Mount Rodadero; near Rincon, about Hacienda Dioplo; 

 near Cabo Rojo, in the plains at Joyuda; near Mayaguez. Haiti. 



Local name, jicama. 



59. GALACTIA P. Br. 



Galactia P. Br. Hist. Jam. 298. 1756. 

 Odonia Bertol. Lucubr. Herb. 35. 1822. 

 Sweetia DC. Prod. 2: 381. 1825. 



Calyx campanulate, the segments long-acuminate, the lowest usually elongate, the 

 lateral ones smaller than the upper one and the lower one; standard ovate or orbicular, 

 subappendiculate or on the edges at the base indexed ; winjjs long and narrow, obovate, 

 adhering to the keel; keel equaling or exceeding the wings; upper stamen free or con- 

 nate with the others at the middle; anthers uniform; ovary sessile or substipitate, 

 with numerous ovules: style filiform, with small terminal stigma: pod linear, straight 

 or incurved, flat, very rarely convex on both sides, 2-valved. pulpy or thinly septate 

 between the seeds. Prostrate or climbing herbs or erect shrubs; leaves pinnate; leaf- 

 lets 3, rarely 1, 5, or 7. stipellate; bracts small, setaceous, deciduous; flowers small 

 or moderately large, rarely large, red, violet or white, in axillary racemes clustered 



