Combs — Plants Collected in the District of Cienfuegos. 413 



Desmodium triflorum DC. 



Not frequent; creeping in old pasture land, fertile soil. 

 Cieneguita E., Dec. 3, '95. (661.) 



D. incanum DC. " Amor seco." 



This plant has white flowers, a form probably due to local- 

 ity. In shaded, fertile places along small streams, rare. 

 Cieneguita E., Oct. 1, '95. (616.) 



Desmodium incanum DC. var. angustifolium Griseb. 



11 A very interesting specimen clearly referable to this 

 variety, although a still more reduced form, was collected by 

 Robert Combs in dry, poor soil at Cieneguita, Cuba, June 22, 

 1895, no. 215. In Mr. Combs' plant the stems (about 25 

 centimeters high) are tufted from the base, and the leaves 

 nearly all unifoliolate, sparingly pubescent on either surface; 

 the lower oblong-elliptic, 7 to 13 millimeters long, 3 to 6 

 millimeters broad; the upper linear, 2 to 4^- centimeters 

 long, 1 to 3 millimeters broad." — Plate xxxi. 



D. axillare DC. " Amor seco." 



Common in fertile shady woods, along small streams. 

 Cieneguita E., May 21, '95. (70.) 



Alysicarpus vaginalis DC. 



Not uncommon in fertile soil in old pasture lands. Ciene- 

 guita E.,Dec. 3, '95. (662.) 



Centrosema Plumieri Benth. " Conchita de Plumier." 



Common in fertile open waste lands and fertile savan- 

 nahs. Cieneguita, Sept. 9, '95. (622.) 



C. Virginianum Benth. " Conchita Virginia." 



Not uncommon in rich savannahs. Cieneguita, May 23, 

 '95. (76.) 



Clitoria glycinoides DC. "Conchita blanca." 



In open, fertile savanuahs, not frequent. Cieneguita, Sept. 

 10, '95. (103.) 



