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sparingly appressed-pubescent beneath, revolute-margined, obtuse 

 or slightly emarginate at the apex, rounded at the base, the ter- 

 minal one with a petiolule 4-8 mm. long, the lateral ones nearly 

 sessile; inflorescence stalked, slender, many-flowered, 6-12 cm. 

 long, densely brownish-pubescent; flowers clustered, almost sessile; 

 calyx 6-7 mm. long, densely brownish appressed-pubescent. its 

 teeth longer than the tube, the upper one ovate, the others lan- 

 ceolate; standard clawed, nearly orbicular, 7 mm. long. 



Pine woods, Baracoa, Oriente {Underwood & Earle 1342). 



II. Galactia Jenningsii sp. no v. 



A very slender, slightly woody vine, the branches 1.5-3.5 dm. 

 long, loosely pilose or glabrate. Stipules subulate, striate, about 

 I mm. long; petioles slender, pilose, 3-10 mm. long; leaflets 3, 

 nearly equally short-petioluled, obovate, oblong or oblong-obovate, 

 subchartaceous, 6-20 mm. long, rounded or emarginate at the 

 apex, rounded or narrowed at the base, pubescent on both sides, 

 strongly reticulate-veined above; peduncles axillary, i- to few- 

 flowered, as long as the petioles or shorter; calyx pilose, about 

 6 mm. long, its lanceolate acuminate lobes about as long as the 

 tube or a little longer; flowers purple; standard suborbicular, 

 clawed, 7-8 mm. long; wings narrowly oblong, about as long as 

 the standard; pod linear, short-beaked, appressed-pubescent, 

 sessile in the calyx, 2.5 cm. long, 5 mm. wide. 



White-sand pine-barrens. Isle of Pines, scarce and local 

 {Britton & Wilson 14,186, type; 0. E. Jennings 350). 



10. Galactia brachyodon Griseb. Mem. Am. Acad. II. 8: 178. 



i860 



Near Monte Verde, Oriente. Endemic. 



12. Galactia REVOLUTA Urban, Symb. Ant. 2: 333. 1900 

 Dry hillsides, northern Oriente. Endemic. 



13. Galactia galactioides (Griseb.) Hitchc. Rep. Mo. Bot. 



Gard. 4: 77. 1893 



Dioclea galactioides Griseb. Cat. PI. Cub. 76. 1866. 



Galactia impressa C. Wright; Sauvalle, Anales Acad. Habana 5: 



337. 1869. 



Near Bahia Honda, Pinar del Rio, collected only by Wright. 

 Endemic. Erroneously recorded from the Bahamas. 



