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37. Cracca Rugelii (Shuttl.) A. Heller, Cat. N. Am PI. ed 2:7. 

 1900. 



Tephrosia Rugelii Shuttl.; B. L. Robinson, Bot. Gaz. 28: 197. 1899. 



A perennial herb, with a woody rootstock; stems several, finely appressed-pubescent 

 with btonze-colored hairs; stipules 4-6 mm. long, persistent; petiole 5-15 mm. long; leaflets 

 3-11, obovate, retuse, mucronate, finely strigulose above, einereous-strigose beneath, 8-17 

 mm. long, 4-8 mm. wide; flowers in a short dense terminal raceme and in pairs in the upper 

 axils; bracts lance-subulate; calyx tawny- villous, 5 mm. long; lobes subulate; corolla apparently 

 purple, 15-18 mm. long; pod somewhat falcate, 3.5-4 cm. long, 5 mm. wide, tomentulose. 



Type locality: Manatee River, southwestern Florida. 



Distribution: Southwestern Florida. 



XIII. Chrysophyllae. Stem sympodial; racemes opposite the leaves, the lower ones 

 best developed, long-peduncled, with few flowers near the end. Leaves 3-9-foliolate, short- 

 petioled, the petioles much shorter than the lowest leaflets; leaflets obovate to elliptic. Corolla 

 8-12 mm. long, purple. Pod strigose or hirtous. 



38. Cracca chrysophylla (Pursh) Kuntze, Rev. Gen. 174 1891. 



Tephrosia chrvsnphvlla Pursh. Fl. Am. Sept. 489. 1814. 



l.alega florida F. G. Dietr. Vollst. Lex. Gaertn. Naclilr. 3: 422, as to description 1817. 



Tephrosia prostrala Nutt. Gen. 2: 120. 1818. 



Perennial herb, with a woody root; stems prostrate, 3-10 dm. long, dichotomously 

 branched, densely short-pilose, somewhat viscid and usually tawny; leaves 3-6 cm. long, 

 nearly sessile; stipules lance-subulate, deciduous, 3-4 mm. long; petiole 1-3 mm. long; rachis 

 pilose; leaflets 3-9, cuneate-obovate, obtuse or retuse, coriaceous, 1-3 cm. long, 7-20 mm. wide, 

 glabious and yellowish-green above, appressed- silky beneath; lacemes opposite the leaves, 

 lax, including the pilose peduncle 4-10 cm. long; bractlets 5 mm. long, lance-subulate, per- 

 sistent; calyx silky-pilose, the tube 2 mm. long, the lobes subulate, 3 mm. long; corolla purple; 

 banner broadly obovate, 1 cm. long, short-clawed, abruptly acutish, strigose on the back; 

 wings oblanceolate-oblong, round at the apex, short-clawed, with a basal auricle on the upper 

 side, slightly shorter than the banner; keel-petals broadly lunate, almost semicircular; pod 

 3.5-4.5 cm. long, 5-6 mm. wide, strigose, straight, abruptly acute at both ends, 8-10-seeded; 

 seeds suborbicular, brownish, variegated with black. 



TypB locality: Georgia. 



Distribution: Pine barrens from Georgia to Mississippi and Florida. 



39. Cracca Carpenteri Rydberg, sp. nov. 



A perennial herb; stem decumbent, 2-4 dm. long, strigose; leaves 2-3.5 cm. long, very 

 short-petioled; stipules 2-3 mm. long, lance-subulate; petiole 1-2 cm. long, as well as the rachis 

 strigose; leaflets 5-7, obovate, retuse or truncate at the apex, 1-1.5 cm. long, cuneate at the 

 base, glabrous above, strigose with long hairs beneath; racemes opposite the leaves, including 

 the peduncle 5-8 cm. long, 1-4-flowered; calyx strigose, the tube 2 mm long, the lobes ovate- 

 deltoid, acute 2 mm. long; corolla purple, 10-12 mm. long; banner broadly obovate; wings 

 obliquely obovate, with a small acute basal auricle; keel-petals semi-orbicular, with an acute 

 basal auricle; pod 4-4.5 cm. long, slightly downwardly arcuate, 4 mm. wide, hirtous 



Type collected in pine woods, Peusacola, Florida, June 1838, Or. Carpenter 44 (Torrey herb., 

 flower) ; also in fruit. Chapman (herb. N. Y. Bot. Gard.). 



Distribution: Western Florida. 



40. Cracca Chapmanii (Vail) .Small, Fl. SE. U. S. 

 612, 1331. 1903. 



Cracca chrysophylla Chapmanni Vail. Bull. Torrey Club 22: 34. 1895. 

 Tephrosia chrysophylla Chapmanni B. L. Robinson. Bot. Gaz. 28: 198. 1899. 



A perennial herb, with woody root; stem slender, 1-3 dm. long, pilose with ascending 



or appressed hairs; leaves 1-3 cm. long, subsessile; stipules 2-3 mm. long, lance-subulate; 



rachis appressed-pilose; leaflets 3-7, obovate or elliptic, rounded to retuse at the apex, 5-15 



