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cm. long, glabrous above, silky-strigose beneath; racemes opposite the leaves, including 

 the peduncle 2-4 cm. long, 2-4-flowered; calyx strigose, the tube 2 mm. long, the lobes deltoid, 

 2 mm. long; corolla purple, about 8 mm. long; banner broadly obovate; pod about 2 cm. 

 long, 3-4 mm. wide, straight, strigose, fr-8-seeded. 



Typb locality: St. Joseph's, Florida. 



Distribution: Type locality and vicinity. » 



XIV. Lindheimerianae. Stem sympodial; racemes opposite the leaves, elongate, lax. 

 Leaves 3-13 foliolate; petioles usually longer than the lower leaflets; leaflets broadly obovate 

 to suborbicular, coriaceous. Corolla 12-15 mm. long, purple. Pod villous-hirsute or pilose. 



41. Cracca Lindheimeri (A. Gray) Kuntze, Rev. 

 Gen. 175. 1891. 



Tephrosia Lindheimeri A. Gray, Bost. Jour. Nat. Hist. 6: 172. 1850. 



A perennial herb, with a thick woody root; stem 0.5-1.5 m. long, decumbent or ascending, 

 flexuose, branched, short-pilose; leaves 1-1.5 dm. long; stipules subulate, 6-7 mm. long; 

 petiole 1-4 cm. long; leaflets 7-13, broadly obovate, from obtuse to retuse at the apex, silky- 

 strigose on both sides, canescent beneath, 2-3 cm. long, often nearly as wide; racemes sub- 

 opposite the leaves, elongate, including the peduncle 1-2.5 dm. long, usually 2 at each node; 

 calyx short-villous, the tube 2 mm. long, the lobes deltoid or deltoid-lanceolate, 2-2.5 cm. 

 long, corolla purple, 12-15 mm. long, banner obovate, silky-strigose without; pod about 

 "5 cm. long, 8 mm. wide, straight, acute at each end, villous-hirsute, 6-8-seeded. 



Type locality: Mesquit prairies on the Llano, Texas. 



Distribution: Texas. 



42. Cracca potosina (Brand.) Rydberg 



Tephrosia potosina Brand. Univ. Calif. Publ. Bot. 4: 272. 1912. 



A perennial herb, with a woody root; stem decumbent, flexuous, densely hirsute-pilose; 

 leaves 1-1.5 dm. long; stipules linear-lanceolate, hirsute, S mm. long; petiole 4-6 cm. long; 

 rachis hirsute-pilose; leaflets 3-7, broadly obovate to orbicular, rounded or retuse at the 

 ap^x, 2 5 3 5 nn long, 2-3 cm. wide, glabrous above, hirsute-pilose beneath; racemes sub- 

 opposite the leaves, 1.5-2 dm. long, about 12-flowered; flowers mostly 2 at each node; calyx 

 densely hirsute, the tube 2 mm. long, the lobes lance-subulate, 3 mm. long; corolla purplish, 

 about 12 mm. long; banner obovate, silky-strigose without; pod about 5 cm long, Ji mm wide, 

 acute at each end, densely hirsute-pilose, about 6-seeded. 



Typb locality: Near Rascon, San Luis Potosi. 

 Distribution: San I.uis Potosi and Nuevo Le6n. 



XV Spicatae. Stem sympodial, racemes opposite the leaves, lax. Leaves 3-23-foliolate ; 

 petioles usually equaling or longer than the lower leaflets; stipules lance-linear or subulate, 

 persistent; leaflets linear to oval, rarely obovate, coriaceous, strongly veined. Corolla 12-15 

 mm. lung, purple or white. Pod pubescent. 



43. Cracca spicata (Walt.) Kuntze, Rev. Gen. 175. 1891. 



Cracca virginiana L. Sp. PI. 752, in part. 1753. 



Galega virginiana L. Sp. PI. ed. 2. 1062, in part. 1763. 



Galega spicata Walt. PI. Car. 188. 1788. 



Galega villosa Michx. PI. Bor. Am. 2: 67. 1803. Not G. villosa I,. 1759. 



Tephrosia villosa (Michx.) Pers. Syn. PI. 2: 329. 1807. Nut T. villosa (L.) Pers. Syn. PI. 2: 329. 



1807. 

 Tephrosia paucijolia Nutt. Gen. 2: 119. 1818. 



Galega JloriJa P. G. Dietr. Vollst. Lex. Gaertn. Nachtr. 3. 422, as tu synonym. 1817. 

 Tephrosia hispida DC. Prodr. 2: 250. 1825. 



Galena paucijolia Nutt.; M. A. Curt. Bost. Jour. Nat Hist. 1: 122. 1837. 

 Tephrosia spicata T & G. Fl. N. Am. 1 : 296. 1838. 

 Tephrosia mollissima Bertul. Mem. Accad. Bologna 2 : 274. 1850. 



A perennial, with a strong and long woody root; stem decumbent or ascending, flexuose, 

 somewhat angled, rusty hirsute-villous throughout, sometimes becoming glabrate below; 

 leaves 5-15 cm. long; stipules 5-10 mm. long, often persistent, linear lanceolate; petiole 



