312 Ign. Urban: 



giore, lateralibus eiim aequantibus c basi triangiilari lanceolatis, postico 

 connato bis aequüongo v. parum longiore; corolla purpurea (ex E(ki.), 

 carina pallidiore (e sicco), vexillo plane reflexo, 19 — 21 mm. longo, 

 11 — 12 cm. lato, obovato, unguiculo 2,5 mm. longo, carina alas per- 

 paullo superante et dimidio latiore, 21 — 22 mm. longa, 6 mm. lata, 

 subrecta; stamine postico ab initio libero, antheris ovato-oblongis; ovario 

 14 — 15-ovulato breviter stipitato stylimi subrectum longitudine sub- 

 aequante; leguminibus 7 cm. longis, 7 mm. latis, in tota longitudine 

 subarcuato-recurvis, ad apicem non inciirvis. 



Oalactia pendula Knox Cat. (1857) p. 83, — no7i Pers. 



Galactia tenuiflora Egg.! Flor. St. Croix a?id Virg. Jsl. (1879) 

 p. 44, — no7i Wight et Arn. 



Hab. in St. Thomas in fruticetis ad Bolongo, ad Cowells Hill 

 66 m. alt, ad Flaghill 300 m. alt., fl. Febr. — Jim.: Eggers ed. Toepff. 

 et Rensch n. 241; St. Jan ad Bordeaux Hill 330 m. alt: Eggers n. 3128. 



Obs. Species pulcherrima et distinctissima , a G. ])ßndula et tenuiflora 

 omnino diversa. G. tenuiflora Wight et Arn. Prodr. Flor. Ind. er. I (1834) 

 p. 20G {Glycine tenuiflora Klein! in Willd. Spec. III p. 1059 et Herb. Willd. 

 n. 13434 from the Red Hills near Pondichery) caiilibus et foliis similis (sed 

 hisce ovalibus v. ovali-ellipticis utriuque aequaliter v. superne perpaullo 

 magis angustatis) differt pedicellis 2 — 3 mm., calyce 4 mm., corolla 8 mm. 

 longa, leguminibus duplo brevioribus arcuato-incurvis. Non pertinet ad var. 

 a, sed ad var. ß apud Wight et Arn. 1. c. 



4. Galactia loiigifolia Benth. caulibus e caudice perenni pluri- 

 bus simplicibus, inferne erectis, superne volubilibus, pilis deorsumversis 

 et adpressis brevibus den.se obsitis; stipulis lanceolatis subulato-acumi- 

 natis, 2,5 — 3 mm. longis; foliis 0,5 — 0,1 cm. longe petiolatis, superiori- 

 bus subsessilibus, foliolis 3, oblonge -linearibus v. linearibus, utrinque 

 rotundatis, apice brevissime apiculatis nunc emarginatis, 10 — 2,5 cm. 

 longis, 1,5 — 0,3 cm. latis, terminali 10 — 3 mm. longe petiolulato late- 

 ralia paullo v. triente superante, crassiuscule chartaceis, utrinque bre- 

 vissime et adpresse pilosulis v. serieeis; pedunculis ad axillas solitariis 

 2 — 8 cm. longis, filiformibus 0,3 — 0,5 mm. crassis, ad apicem flores 

 1 — paucos gerentibus, pedicellis 1 — 2 mm. longis; calyce breviter et 

 adpresse piloso, 6 — 7 mm. longo, dente antico tubo 2^/^ — 3-plo, late- 

 ralibus duplo longioribus lanceolatis acutis, postico connato hos vix 

 superante; corolla rosea (ex Duss), purpurea unicolore (ex Jacq.), vexillo 

 alisque ex roseo pui'purascentibus , carina albida (ex Duch.), vexillo 

 recurvo 7 — 8 mm. longo, 3,5 — 4 mm. lato, obovato, unguiculo 1 — 1,5 mm. 

 longo, alis et carina subaequilongis 7 mm. longis, vexillo aoquilongis 

 V. perpaullo brevioribus, 2 mm. latis subaequilatis; stamine postico libero, 

 antheris ovatis v. anguste ovatis; ovario 9 — 10-ovulato, sessili, stylum 



