452 BRITTON: STUDIES OF WEsT INDIAN PLANTS 
14. Galactia savannarum sp. nov. 
A slender, somewhat woody vine, 6 dm. long or longer, rather 
densely pubescent with brownish reflexed hairs, or the older parts 
glabrate. Stipules lanceolate, acuminate, 1-2 mm. long; petioles 
slender, 5-10 mm. long; leaflets 1 or 3, oblong, oblong-lanceolate, 
or the terminal one oblong-oblanceolate, subcoriaceous, revolute- 
margined, 1-3 cm. long, 6-12 mm. wide, glabrous on both sides 
or with some scattered hairs beneath, obtuse or emarginate at 
the apex, rounded at the base, the pubescent petiolules equal, 
about 1.5 mm. long; inflorescence interruptedly spicate, slender, 
5-12 cm. long, densely appressed-pubescent; flowering pedicels 
0.5 mm. long or less; calyx 4-5 mm. long, appressed-pubescent, 1ts 
lobes about equalling the tube; flowers blue-purple, about 8 mm. 
long; standard suborbicular, clawed, about 6.5 mm. broad; wings 
and keel nearly equal in length; pod borne on a pedicel about 1.5 
mm. long, linear, acute, densely villous, 2.5-3 cm. long, 7 mm. wide. 
Barren savannas, Oriente, Camaguey, Santa Clara. Type 
from savanna southeast of Holguin, Oriente (Shafer 1237). 
15. GALACTIA JUSSIAEANA Kunth, Mimos. 196. 1824 
Clitoria glomerata Griseb. Cat. Pl. Cub. 74. 1866. 
Pine-lands and plains, Pinar del Rio and Isle of Pines: Jamaica; 
Hispaniola; tropical South America. Common in pine-lands on 
the Isle of Pines, attaining a height of 6 dm. 
47. THE GENUS MACHAONIA H. & B. IN CUBA 
Type species: Machaonia acuminata H. & B. 
Fruit essentially glabrous. 
ruit constricted below the middle. 
Fruit gradually narrowed to the base. 
Fruit pubescent. 
. M. pauciflora. 
2. M. littoralis. 
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Fruit sparingly pubescent, the persistent calyx-lobes long. 3. M. trifurcata. 
Fruit densely pubescent, the persistent calyx-lobes short. 
Fruit broadly obpyramidal, 2.5 mm. long. . M. microphylla. 
Fruit narrowly obpyramidal, 3-4 mm. long. 5. M. calcicola. 
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I. MACHAONIA PAUCIFLORA Urban, Symb. Ant. 5: 512. 1908 
The species is based on part of C. Wright's 433, collected, pre- 
sumably, in Oriente, and has not been found by us. 
2. Machaonia littoralis sp. nov. 
_A shrub, about 2 m. high, with slender branches, the young 
wigs short-pilose, leafy to their tips. Leaves rhombic-ovate to 
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