450 Brixton: Studies of West Indian plants 



5. Galactia suberecta sp. nov. 



A somewhat woody trailing vine, with slender, villous, erect 

 or ascending branches 1-2.5 dm. high. Stipules lanceolate, acute, 

 2-3 mm. long; petioles slender, villous, 1-2 cm. long; leaflets 3, 

 oblong to oblong-oblanceolate or oval, 1-3 cm. long, mostly obtuse 

 or rounded at the apex, appressed-pubescent on both sides, 

 strongly reticulate-veined beneath, the lateral ones nearly sessile, 

 obtuse or rounded at the base, the terminal one narrowed at the 

 base, on a petiolule 3-4 mm. long; peduncles i-flowered, shorter 

 than the petioles; calyx villous, 6 mm. long, its lanceolate lobes 

 longer than the tube; corolla purple, i cm. long. 



Savanna near San Juan, Isle of Pines, Cuba {Britton & Wilson 



14973)- 



6. Galactia Combsii Urban, Symb. Ant, 2: 219. 1900 



Grassy places, Santa Clara, Pinar del Rio. Endemic. Re- 

 ferred by Combs to G. angustijolia HBK. 



7. Galactia striata (Jacq.) Urban, Symb. Ant. 2: 320. 1900 



Glycine striata Jacq. Hort. Vind. i : 32. pi. 76. 1770. 

 Galactia cuhensis HBK. Nov. Gen. 6: 429. 1823. 

 Galactia Berteriana DC. Prodr. 2: 238. 1825. 

 Galactia striata cuhensis Urban, Symb. Ant. 2: 322. 1900. 

 Galactia striata Berteriana Urban, loc. cit. 1900. 



Thickets and hillsides at lower elevations, all provinces and 

 Isle of Pines: Jamaica; Hispaniola; Porto Rico; continental 

 tropical America. Recorded by Grisebach and by Wright as 

 G.filiformis Benth. Some Cuban specimens with short-peduncled 

 inflorescence are only with difficulty separable from the follow- 

 ing species. Races differ in pubescence. 



8. Galactia spiciformis T. & G. Fl. N. A. i: 288. 1838 

 Thickets, Cays of Camaguey: southern Florida; Bahamas. 



9. Galactia Earlei sp. nov. 



Stem slender, somewhat woody, twining, finely appressed- 

 pubescent 5 dm. long or longer. Stipules lanceolate-subulate, 

 about 2 mm. long; petioles slender, sparingly pubescent, 3 cm. 

 long or less; leaflets 3, oblong or elliptic, 1.5-3 <^-t^- ^ong, 8-15 mm. 

 wide, glabrous and shining with the midvein impressed above, 



