140 Annals of the Carnegie Museum. 



Distribution: In fields, Guiana, Venezuela, Brazil, and Isle of Pines. 



Curtiss's plant was distributed (No. 448, West Indian Plants) 

 under the name Clitoria cajanifolia, and subsequent collections from 

 the Isle of Pines seem to have been labeled the same ( = Clitoria 

 laurifolia), but a careful examination of various descriptions have 

 led the writer to believe that the plants should be called Clitoria 

 guianensis. The plants have a thick woody taproot and, from the 

 crown, are sent up erect branches to a height of from 5 to 20 cm., 

 bearing in the upper axils one or two flowers. The flowers are quite 

 striking objects, the standard often reaching a length of 6 cm. and a 

 width of 5 cm., the color varying from blue to rose or fading to almost 

 white. The leaflets are narrowly oblong, about 8-12 mm. wide and 

 from 6-10 cm. long, sometimes longer in vegetative shoots. The 

 leaves are sparingly pubescent on the veins beneath, strongly reticu- 

 lated, minutely glandular on both sides, paler and somewhat glaucous 

 beneath. The apex is obtuse but mucronulate. The pods are about 

 4 cm. long by 6 mm. wide, their valves being strongly costate, the 

 apex tapering into a beak about 5-8 mm. long. 



The writer has notseen Blain'scoUections, now in theHerbarium of the 

 Field Museum, but it is probable that the specimen reported by Mills- 

 paugh for the Isle of Pines, Blain, No. 2Q, is also Clitoria guianensis. 



320. Bradburya virginiana (Linnaeus) Kuntze. 



Clitoria virginiana Linn^us, Species Plantarum, II, Ed. I, 1753, p. 753- 

 Centrosema virginianum Bentham, Annalen d. K. K. Naturhistorischen Hofmus- 



eums, Wien, II, 1838, p. 120. 

 Bradburya virginiana Kuntze, Revisio Generum Plantarum, I, 1891, p. 164. 



Open savanna among palmettoes, near Nueva Gerona, May 5, 1910, 

 0. E. Jennings, No. ly; same locality and collector, No. J5; weed on 

 low, rich, recently cleared land north of Nueva Gerona, May 7, 1910, 

 0. E. Jennings, No. 142; along arroyo east of Los Indies, May 18, 

 1910, 0. E. Jennings, No. 356; west of La Canada Mts., May 18, 

 1910, 0. E. Jennings, No. 633; near Nueva Gerona, June 3, 1912, 

 G. A. Link. General Distribution: In America ranging from New 

 Jersey and Arkansas to Argentina; also occurring in the tropics of the 

 Old World. 



321. Bradburya virginiana var. augustifolia (Linnaeus) comb, nov 



Clitoria virginiana var. angustifolia P. DeCandolle, Prcdromus Systematis 

 Naturalis Regni Vegetabilis, II, 1825, p. 234. 



