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FLOKA OF JAMAICA 



Galactia 



Green Valley, 2000 ft. ; Great Goat Is. ; Round HiU, S. Cruz Mts., 2000 ft. ; 

 Plowden Hill, 1500 ft.; Harrisl Fl. Jam. 5602, 5861, 6138, 6178, 6509, 

 6859, 8864, 9344, 9699, 10,164, 11,659. 



Stem twining, climbing to a height of 20 ft. in trees ; younger branches 

 puberulous or glabrate. Leaflets elliptical, oblong-elliptical, ovate-elliptical, 

 or lanceolate-elliptical ; stalk of the terminal leaflet 3-10 mm. 1. (and more) ; 

 stipules awl-shaped, abo ut 4 mm. 1. Inflorescence 7-30 cm. 1., with numerous 

 small clusters of few (-1) flowers from near the base. BracieoZes ovate- 

 acuminate, 2 mm. 1. Corolla rosy, rosy-crimson, or white tinged with 

 rose ; standard elliptical; wings a little shorter than the keel ; keel a little 



Fig. 17. — Galactia pendula Pers. 

 A, Portion of stem with inflorescence and D, Keel opened, exposing stamens, and 



leaves x f. 



B, Standard X IJ. 



C, Wing X IJ. 



pistil X IJ. 

 B, Pod X |. 

 F, Seed X 2. 

 (A, after Bot. Reg.) 



shorter than the standard. Stamens alternately longer and shorter, upper- 

 most quite free from the rest ; anthers versatile, narrowly oblong. Seeds 

 shortly ovate or subrhomboid, brown with blackish spots, 5-6 inm. 1. 



2. G. Striata TJrh. Symh. Ant. ii. 320 (1900) (iiicl. vars.) ; 

 leaflets 3-5 (2-8) cm. 1,, pubescent with adpressed hairs on the 

 upper surface or glabrescent, more or less densely covered beneath 

 with adpressed velvety hairs ; calyx covered with silky adpressed 

 hairs, 7 (5-8) mm. 1., segments 2 to 2^ times longer than the 

 tube; standard 7-9(-ll) mm. 1.; pod 4-7 cm. l, 6-9 mm. br., 

 more or less densely pubescent. — G. filiformis Griseb. loc. cit. (in 

 part) (non Benth.). G. cubensis H. B. & K. Nov. Gen. & Sp. vi. 



