Part 3, 1923] FABACEAE: GALEGEAE 167 



21. Cracca nicaraguensis (Oerst. ) Kuntze, Rev. 

 Gen. 175. 1891. 



Tephrosia nicaraguensis Oerst.; Benth. & Oerst. Vidensk. Meddel. 1853: 6. 1853. 



A suffruticose perennial, 3-5 dm. high; branches angled, densely villous; leaves 10-15 

 cm. long; stipules subulate, 6-10 mm. long; leaflets 15-21, oblong, obtuse at each end, silky- 

 villous on both sides, subsericeous beneath, 2-3 cm. long, thick, strongly veined beneath; 

 racemes short, terminal; bracts setaceous, caducous; pedicels villous, 1 mm. long in flower, 

 4 mm. long in fruit; calyx villous, the tube 2-3 cm. long, the lobes lanceolate, acuminate, 

 unequal, the lowest much the longest; corolla about 12 mm. long; banner sericeous-villous 

 on the back; wings oblong, short-clawed; keel-petals broadly obliquely obovate, obtuse; 

 pod straight, 4 cm. long, 4 mm. wide, ferruginous-villous. 



Type locality: Savannas between Granada and Masaya, Nicaragua. 

 Distribution: Nicaragua and Costa Rica. 



22. Cracca macrantha (Pringle) Rose, Bot. Gaz. 40: 143. 1905. 



Tephrosia macrantha Pringle, Garden & Forest 7: 173. My 1894. 

 Tephrosia macrantha Rob. & Greenm. Proc. Am. Acad. 29: 383. Je 1894. 



A tall perennial, shrubby below, 2-4 m. high; branches angled and ribbed, fulvous-velu- 

 tinous; leaves 7-13 cm. long; stipules subulate, 10-12 mm. long; petiole 2-3 cm. long, as well 

 as the rachis sulcate, and subvelutinous; leaflets 17-23, oblong, elliptic, or lance-oblong, 

 obtuse to cuneate at the base, obtuse or acutish at the apex, strigose on both sides, somewhat 

 canescent beneath, tawny on the ribs, 2-4 cm. long, 6-18 mm. wide; racemes terminal and 

 in the upper axils, the terminal one often branched, 1.5-2.5 dm. long; bracts filiform-subulate, 

 8-10 mm. long; calyx finely pubescent, the tube 3 mm. long, the lobes lanceolate, 3 mm. long, 

 attenuate; corolla about 2.5 cm. long, lilac, tinged yellow; banner orbicular; wings oblong, 

 oblique at the base; keel-petals lunate, semi-obovate, with a rounded basal auricle; pod 5-7 

 cm. long, 4 mm. wide, falcate. 



Type locality: Tequila, Jalisco. 



Distribution: Jalisco and Guerrero. 



Illustration: Garden 8c Forest 7: fig. 32. 



VI. Candidae. Stem monopodial, erect; racemes terminal and in the upper axils, dense. 

 Leaves 13-25-foliolate; leaflets lanceolate or lance-oblong, rather firm, acute; stipules setaceous, 

 persistent. Corolla white or yellowish, 2.5-3 cm. long. Pod pubescent, strigose or sub- 

 velutinous. 



23. Cracca Candida (Roxb.) Kuntze, Rev. Gen. 173. 1891. 



Robinia Candida Roxb. (Cat. Hort. Beng. 56; hyponym. 1814; DC. Prodr. 2: 249, as svnonym. 1825) 



Fl. hid. 3: .127. 1832. 

 Tephrosia Candida DC. Prodr. 2: 249. 1825. 

 Xiphocarpus martinicensis Presl. Svmb. Bot. 1: 14. 1830. 

 Xiphocarpus candidus Hassk. PI. Jav. Rar. 336. 1848. 

 Kiestra Candida Reinw. Syll. PI. Nov. 2: II. 1828. 

 Robinia scricea Sieber; Presl, Symb. Bot. 1: 14, as synonym. 1830. 



A shrub, 1-3 m. high; branches angled, densely silky-strigose with brown or gray hairs; 

 leaves 1-2 dm. long; stipules setaceous, about I cm. long, persistent; leaflets 19-25, lance- 

 oblong, acute at each end, mucronate, 4-5 cm. long, 7-10 mm. wide, firm, glabrous above, 

 silky-strigosc beneath; racemes short, dense, terminal and in the upper axils; flowers 3-6 

 at each node; bracts subulate, caducous; calyx silky-strigose, more or less ferruginous, the 

 tube 4 mm. long, the lobes rounded-ovate, 2-3 mm. long, mucronate; corolla white, 2.5-3 

 cm. long; banner broadly obovate, 'Silky-strigose without; wings obliquely obovate, scarcely 

 auricled at the base; stamens monadelphous, but the upper stamen free at the base and the 

 tube split on one side of it above; pod 6-10 cm. long, 7 mm. wide, sparingly strigose, 9—14- 

 seeded. 



Type locality: Bengal, India. 



Distribution: Naturalized in Jamaica, St. Ritts, and Martinique, native of India. 



Illustration: Presl, Symb. Bot. pi. 7. 



