450 BRITTON: STUDIES OF WeEsT 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, I-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 1—-flowered, shorter 
than the petioles; calyx villous, 6 mm. long, its lanceolate lobes 
longer than the tube; corolla purple, 1 cm. long. 
Savanna near San Juan, Isle of Pines, Cuba (Britton & Wilson 
14973). 
6. Garactia Comspsit Urban, Symb. Ant. 2: 219. 1900 
Grassy places, Santa Clara, Pinar del Rio. Endemic. Re- 
ferred by Combs to G. angustifolia HBK. 
7- GALACTIA STRIATA (Jacq.) Urban, Symb. Ant. 2: 320. 1900 
Glycine striata Jacq. Hort. Vind. 1: 32. pl. 76. 1770. 
Galactia cubensis HBK. Nov. Gen. 6: 429. - 1823. 
Galactia Berteriana DC. Prodr. 2: 238. 1825. 
Galactia striata cubensis 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. fiiformis 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. 1: 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 cm. long, 8-15 mm. 
wide, glabrous and shining with the midvein impressed above; 
