Part 3, 1923] FABACEAE: GALEGEAE 161 



1. Cracca grandiflora (l/HeY.) Kuntze, Rev. Gen. 175. 1891. 



Galega grandiflora I.'Her.; Ait. Hort. Kew. 3: 70. 1789. 

 Tcphrosia grandiflora Pers. Syn. PI. 2: .129. 1807. 

 - Apodynomene grandiflora E. Meyer, Coram. PI. Afr. Aust. 111. 1835. 



A perennial shrub, 3-6 dm. high; branches more or less strigose; leaves 3-8 em. long; 

 stipules ovate, acuminate, 6-10 mm. long, several-ribbed, brownish or purplish, persistent; 

 leaflets 11-15, usually oblanceolate or oblong, rarely cuneate, 1-2.5 cm. long, cuspidate, 

 strongly veined, strigose on both sides or glabrate above, bracts resembling the stipules, 

 1-1.5 cm. long, deciduous; flowers mostly 2 at each node; calyx silky-strigose, the tube 4 mm. 

 long, the lubes deltoid-lanceolate, acuminate, subulate-tipped; corolla 15-20 mm. long, 

 rose-red, tinged with orange or yellow without; banner broadly obovate, silky-strigose without; 

 wings obliquely obovate, with a small basal auricle; pod 5-6 cm. long, 8-9 mm. wide, straight, 

 acute at each end, short-pubescent on the sutures, 10-14-seeded. 



Typb locality: Cape of Good Hope. 



Distribution: Naturalized in Jamaica; native of South Africa. 



Illustration: Bot. Reg. 9: pi. 76V. 



II. Leiocarpae. Stem monopodial; racemes terminal and also axillary in the upper 

 axils, or in one species more decidedly axillary, rather elongate. Leaves 9-25-foliolate; stipules 

 lance-subulate to setaceous, caducous; leaflets oblong, mostly obtuse. Corolla 15-20 mm. 

 long, rose or white. Pod wholly glabrous or merely pubescent on the sutures. 



2. Cracca leiocarpa (A. Gray) Kuntze, Rev. Gen. 175. 1891. 



Tephrosia leiocarpa A. Gray, PI. Wright. 2: 36. 1853. 

 Tephrosia afinis S. Wats. Proc. Am. Acad. 21 : 424. 1886. 

 Tephrosia viridis M. E. Jones, Contr. W. Hot. 12: 7. 190b. 

 Cracca affinis Rose, Contr. U. S. Nat. Herb. 12: 269. 1909. 



A perennial herb, from a thick woody root; stems several, 3-5 dm. high, angled, striate, 

 strigose; leaves 10-15 cm. long; stipules 4-6 mm. long, setaceous; petiole 1-3 cm. long; rachis 

 sericeous-strigulose; leaflets 9-19, oblong, 2-4.5 cm. long, 5-7 mm. wide, obtuse or acutish, 

 apiculate, glabrous above, cinereous-strigose beneath; racemes terminal and axillary in the 

 upper axils, short-peduncled; bracts caducous; pedicels 5-8 mm. long; calyx cinereous-strigose, 

 the tube 3 mm. long, the lobes lanceolate, 3 mm. long, acuminate; corolla rose-colored or 

 purplish, 15-18 mm. long; banner strigulose on the back, suborbicular, longer than the other 

 petals; wings oblong with an acute basal lobe, short-clawed; keel-petals semi-orbicular, short- 

 clawed; pod glabrous, 3-5 cm. long, 6 mm. wide, straight, about 10-seeded; seeds sub-orbi- 

 cular, brownish. 



Typb locality: On the Sonoita, near Deserted Rancho, Sonora. 

 Distribution: Southern Arizona to Sonora and southern Chihuahua. 



3. Cracca calva Rydberg, sp. nov. 



Tephrosia affinis S. Wats. Proc. Am. Acad. 22: 405. 1887. Not T. affinis S. Wats. 1886. 



A perennial herb, 6—10 cm. high, woody at the base; stem and branches angled, slender, 

 finely strigose; leaves 8-15 em. long; stipules setaceous, 8-10 mm. long; petiole 1-2 cm. long, 

 as well as the rachis strigose; leaflets 9-17, oblong or oblong-oblanceolate, obtuse to retuse 

 at the apex, mucronate, 2.5-3 cm. long, 8-10 mm. wide, glabrous above, silky-strigose beneath; 

 racemes terminal and in the upper axils, long and slender, 1.5-2 dm. long; flowers 1 or 2 at 

 each node; bracts subulate, deciduous; calyx silky-strigose, the tube 2.5-3 cm. long, the lobes 

 subulate, 4 mm. long; corolla rose-colored, about 20 mm. long; banner broadly obovate, 

 silky-strigose without; wings obliquely obovate, with a large basal auricle; pod about 5 cm. 

 long, straight, 6 mm. wide, glabrous, 7-8-seeded. 



Type collected on the slopes of the barranca of Guadalajara, Jalisco, June 11, 1902, Pringle 

 9773 (Herb. N. Y. Bot. Gard.). 

 Distribution: Jalisco. 



