50 Field Columbian Museum Botany, Vol. 2. 



Crotalaria verrucosa Linn. loc. cit. 



Dry fields in the suburbs of Charlotte Amalia, St. Thomas (371, 

 380, 393, 465, 488). Leaves in all our specimens blunt or crenate, 

 reticulate, white-veined beneath, having much the appearance of an 

 amaranth. 



Crotalaria anagyroides H. B. K. Nov. Gen. et Sp. 6:404. 



Dry hillside at the "Ovens " near Santiago de Cuba (11 19, 1125). 



Crotalaria incana Linn. loc. cit. 716. 



Old field center of the island of Grand Cayman (1387). 



Crotalaria pumila Orteg. Hort. Matr. 23? 



Center of island of Cozumel (1566). Reference doubtful in the 

 absence of fruits. The doubt is, however, slight. 



Crotalaria pumila obcordata Griseb. Fl. Br. W. I. 180. 



Leaflets 3, mostly obcordate, much smaller than the species, 

 .6-1 x .5-. 7 cm., pods 1.2 x .6 cm. prominently beaked, habit more 

 spreading, resembling Medicago lupulina. East shore of Cozumel 

 Island (1578). 



Medicago lupulina Linn. Sp. PI. 779. 



Dry fields at Walsingham (76) and Hamilton (130), Bermuda. 



Indigofera Anil Linn. Mant. 2:272. 



Old fields, an escape from cultivation and apparently well estab- 

 lished at Catano, Porto Rico (191), Charlotte Amalia, St. Thomas 

 (435), San Domingo near the city (881) and near the base of Morro 

 Hill, Santiago de Cuba (1101). 



Gliricidia maculata H. B. K. Nov. Gen. et Sp. 6:393. 



Planted in hedge rows as an ornamental tree at San Domingo 

 city (783), escaped from cultivation to scrublands at San Juan Hill, 

 Santiago de Cuba (1055), and center of the island of Cozumel (1553) 

 where it is called Xak-yaab: "very white," in allusion to the tree 

 when in flower. 



Benthamantha Carib^ea (Jacq.) Ktze. Rev. Gen. 3:53. 



Galega Caribcea Jacq. Select. Am. 212. Genus Benthamantha 

 Alef. in Bonplandia 10:264 (1862). Dry fields south shores of Cule- 

 bras Island (622). Rare. 



Benthamantha Greenmanni (Millsp.) Britt. & Baker, Jour.Bot. 38:19. 

 Cracca Greenmanni (Millsp.) Grassy plain and opens in scrub- 

 land near San Miguel, Cozumel (1479). Type from Chichen Itza, 

 Yucatan, collection by myself during the Allison V. Armour expedi- 

 tion of 1895, No. 127. Type in Herb. Field Col. Mus. No. 39,003. 



Cracca cinerea (L.) Morong. PI. Parag. 79. 



Galega Linn. Tephrosia Pers. Low suffrutescent and trailing, 

 scattered in sandy soil, environs of Catano, Porto Rico (179) and 

 Charlotte Amalia, St. Thomas (486), also at the "Ovens," Santiago 

 de Cuba (1115), and near "The Creek," Cayman Brae (1158), where 



