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304. Gliricidia sepium (Jacqiiin) Steudel. 



Robinia sepium Jacquin, Enumeratio Plantarum Quas in Insulis Caribaeis Detexit, 



1760, p. 28. 

 Robinia tnaculaia Humboldt, Bonpland, & Kunth, Nova Genera et Species 



Plantarum, VI, 1823, p. 393. 

 Lonchocarpus maculatus P. DeCandolle, Prodromus Systematis Naturalis Regni 



Vegetabilis, II, 1825, p. 260. 

 Gliricidia sepium Steudel, Nomenclator Botanicus, I, Ed. II, 1841, p. 688. 

 Gliricidia Lambii Fernald, Botanical Gazette, XX, 1895, P- 533' 



Near Nueva Gerona, April 6 and May 30, 1904, A. H. Curtiss, No, 

 4S7. General Distribution: Cuba, the Isle of Pines, Haiti, Santo 

 Domingo, Porto Rico, Jamaica, and from Mexico to northern South 

 America. 



305. Cracca cinerea (Linnaeus) Morong. 



Galega cinerea Linn^us, Systema Naturae, II, Ed. X, 1759, p. 1172. 



Tephrosia cinerea Persoon, Synopsis Plantarum, II, 1807, p. 328. 



Cracca villosa var. cinerea O. Kuntze, Revisio Generum Plantarum, I, 1891, p. 173. 



Cracca cinerea Morong, Annals, New York Academy of Sciences, VII, 1892, p. 79. 



Field at Bibijagua, May 7, 1910 (flowers blue) 0. E. Jennings, 

 No. 105; field, near Nueva Gerona, May 14, 1910, 0. E. Jennings, 

 No. 640. General Distribution: Bahamas, West Indies, and the 

 American continental tropics. 



Our specimens are smaller-leaved than specimens from various 

 other localities, but the specimens from the Isle of Pines, in at least 

 one instance, show traces of fire, the present shoots arising from the 

 perennial more or less charred woody crown. This may perhaps 

 account for a dwarfed condition of the specimens. 



306. Brya Ebenus (Linnaeus) DeCandolle. 

 Granadillo. American Ebony. 



Aspalathus Ebenus Linn^us, Systema Naturae, II, Ed. X, 1759, p. 1158. 

 Amerimnon Ebenus Swartz, Prodromus Descriptionum Vegetabilium Indiae Occi- 



dentalis, 1788, p. 104. 

 Brya Ebenus DeCandolle, Prodromus Systematis Naturalis Regni Vegetabilis, 



II, 1825, p. 421. 



Near Nueva Gerona, January and March, 1904, A. H. Curtiss, 

 No. 262; shrub about five feet high, in dry savannah east of Nueva 

 Gerona, May 5, 1910, 0. E. Jennings, No. 2; northern part of the 

 island, Blain, No. 135 (Millspaugh). General Distribution: Dry 

 gravelly savannas in the Bahamas, Cuba, Isle of Pines, and Jamaica. 



On the dry "Mai Pais" gravelly soils of the northeastern part of 



