140 Annals of the Carnegie Museum. 



Distribution: In fields, Guiana, Venezuela, Brazil, and Isle of Pines. 



Curtiss's plant was distributed {A^o. 44S, West Indian Plants) 

 under the name Clitoria cajanifolia, and subsequent collections from 

 the Isle of Pines seem to have been labeled the same ( = Clitoria 

 laurifolia), but a careful examination of various descriptions have 

 led the writer to believe that the plants should be called Clitoria 

 guianensis. The plants have a thick woody taproot and, from the 

 crown, are sent up erect branches to a height of from 5 to 20 cm., 

 bearing in the upper axils one or two flowers. The flowers are quite 

 striking objects, the standard often reaching a length of 6 cm. and a 

 width of 5 cm., the color varj'ing from blue to rose or fading to almost 

 white. The leaflets are narrowly oblong, about 8-12 mm. wide and 

 from 6-10 cm. long, sometimes longer in vegetative shoots. The 

 leaves are sparingly- pubescent on the veins beneath, strongly reticu- 

 lated,. minutely glandular on both sides, paler and somewhat glaucous 

 beneath. The apex is obtuse but mucronulate. The pods are about 

 4 cm. long by 6 mm. wide, their valves being strongly costate, the 

 apex tapering into a beak about 5-8 mm. long. 



The writer has notseenBlain'scollections.now in the Herbarium of the 

 Field Museum, but it is probable that the specimen reported by Mills- 

 paugh for the Isle of Pines, Blain, No. 2g, is also Clitoria guianensis. 



2,20. Bradburya virginiana (Linnaeus) Kuntze. 



Clitoria virginiana Linnaeus, Species Plantarum, II, Ed. I, 1753, p. 753- 

 Centrosema virginianum Bentham, AnnakMi d. K. K. Natxirhistorischcn Ilofmus- 



euins, Wien, II, 1838, p. 120. 

 Bradburya virginiana Kuntze, Revisio Generum Plantarum, I, 1891, p. 164. 



Open sa\aiina among palmettoes, near Nueva Gerona, May 5, 1910, 

 0. E. Jennings, No. ly; same locality and collector, No. 55, • weed on 

 low, rich, recently cleared land nurth of Nueva Gerona, May 7, 1910, 

 0. E. Joinings, No. 143; along arroyo east of Los Indios, May 18, 

 1910, 0. E. Jennings, No. J5(5; west of La Canada Mts., May 18, 

 1910, 0. E. Jennings, No. 6_^j: near Nueva Gerona, June 3, 1912, 

 G. A. Link. General Distribution: In America ranging from New 

 Jersey and Arkansas to Argentina; also occurring in the tropics of the 

 Old World. 



321. Bradburya virginiana \ ar. augustifolia (Linnaeus) comb, nov 



Clitoria virgiuimia \ar. augustifolia P. DeCandolle, Prodroiims Systematis 

 Naturalis Regni Vcgetabilis, II, 1825, p. 234. 



