452 Brixton: Studies of West Indian plants 



14. Galactia savannarum sp. nov. 



A slender, somewhat woody vine, 6 dm. long or longer, rather 

 densely pubescent with brownish reflexed hairs, or the older parts 

 glabrate. Stipules lanceolate, acuminate, 1-2 mm. long; petioles 

 slender, 5-10 mm. long; leaflets i or 3, oblong, oblong-lanceolate, 

 or the terminal one oblong-oblanceolate, subcoriaceous, revolute- 

 margined, 1-3 cm. long, 6-12 mm. wide, glabrous on both sides 

 or with some scattered hairs beneath, obtuse or emarginate at 

 the apex, rounded at the base, the pubescent petiolules equal, 

 about 1.5 mm. long; inflorescence interruptedly spicate, slender, 

 5-12 cm. long, densely appressed-pubescent; flowering pedicels 

 0.5 mm. long or less; calyx 4-5 mm. long, appressed-pubescent, its 

 lobes about equalling the tube; flowers blue-purple, about 8 mm. 

 long; standard suborbicular, clawed, about 6.5 mm. broad; wings 

 and keel nearly equal in length; pod borne on a pedicel about 1.5 

 mm. long, linear, acute, densely villous, 2.5-3 cm. long, 7 mm. wide. 



Barren savannas, Oriente, Camaguey, Santa Clara. Type 

 from savanna southeast of Holguin, Oriente {SJiafer 1237). 



15. Galactia JussiAEANA Kunth, Mimos. 196. 1824 



Clitoria glomerata Griseb. Cat. PI. Cub. 74. 1866. 



Pine-lands and plains, Pinardel Rio and Isle of Pines: Jamaica; 

 Hispaniola; tropical South America. Common in pine-lands on 

 the Isle of Pines, attaining a height of 6 dm. 



47. THE GENUS MACHAONIA H. & B. IN CUBA 

 Type species: Machaonia acuminata H. & B. 



Fruit essentially glabrous. 



Fruit constricted below the middle. i. M. pauciflora. 



Fruit gradually narrowed to the base. 2. M. liltoralis. 

 Fruit pubescent. 



Fruit sparingly pubescent, the persistent calyx-lobes long. 3. M. trifurcata. 

 Fruit densely pubescent, the persistent calyx-lobes short. 



Fruit broadly obpyramidal, 2.5 mm. long. 4- ^- micro phylla. 



Fruit narrowly obpyramidal, 3-4 mm. long. 5. M. calcicola. 



I. Machaonia pauciflora Urban, Symb. Ant. 5: 512. 1908 

 The species is based on part of C. Wright's 433, collected, pre- 

 sumably, in Oriente, and has not been found by us. 



2. Machaonia littoralis sp. nov. 



A shrub, about 2 m. high, with slender branches, the young 

 twigs short-pilose, leafy to their tips. Leaves rhombic-ovate to 



