Part 3, 1923] FABACEAE: GALEGEAE 179 



60. Cracca purpurea I,. Sp. PI. 752. 1753. 



Calega purpurea h. Syst. Nat. ed. 10. 1172. 1759. 

 Tephrosia purpurea Pers. Syn. PI. 2: 329. 1807. 

 Tephrosia ascendens Macfad. Fl. Jam. 257. 1837. 

 Cracca vilksa purpurea Kuntze. Rev. Gen. 174. 1891. 



A perennial herb; stems copiously branched and flexuose, 3-6 dm. high, sparingly and 

 finely strigose or glabrate; leaves 2-10 cm. long; stipules linear-subulate, 3-5 mm. long; 

 petiole 5-10 mm. long; leaflets 7-21. narrowly oblanceolate, obtuse or rounded at the apex, 

 glabrous or sparingly strigose above, somewhat silky-strigose beneath; racemes mostly opposite 

 the leaves, lax, including the peduncle 1-15 cm. long; bracts subulate, small; calyx silky- 

 strigulose, the tube about 2 mm. long, the lobes 2 mm. long, subulate; corolla 6-9 mm. long, 

 red; banner orbicular-obovate, short-clawed; wings broadly obliquely oblanceolate; pod 3-4 

 cm. long, 4 mm. wide, minutely strigose, 3-6-seeded, somewhat arcuate upward; seeds oblong- 

 reniform, 3 mm. long. 



Type locality: Ceylon. 



Distribution: Jamaica and Hispaniola; Sinaloa to Guerrero; Panama; also in Colombia; 

 naturalized from India. 



Illustrations: Rheede, Hort. Mai. 9: pi. 22; Buim. Fl. Zeyl. pi. 32. 



61 Cracca Curtissii Small, sp. nov. 



Tephrosia purpurea B. I,. Robinson, Bot. Gaz. 28: 201, in part. 1899. 



A perennial herb; stem slender, flexuose, branched, glabrous or sparingly strigose; leaves 

 4-10 cm. long; stipules subulate-setaceous; petiole 8-12 mm. long; rachis glabious or nearly 

 so; leaflets 7-17, oblong or oblanceolate, rounded or retuse at the apex, mucronate, 1-3 cm. 

 long, 4-6 mm. wide, glabrous above, sparingly strigillose or glabrate beneath; racemes slender, 

 lax, including the peduncles 8-12 cm. long; calyx strigose, the tube 2.5 mm. long, the lobes 

 lanceolate, acuminate, 2.5 mm. long; corolla 10-12 mm. long, purplish; banner suborbicular, 

 often retuse at the apex; wings bioadly obliquely oblanceolate, with a deltoid basal auricle; 

 pod straight, about 4 cm. long and 4 mm. wide, strigillose, 5-6-seeded 



Type collected on sandy ridges near Cape Malabar, eastern Florida, A. //. Curliss 584 (herb. 

 Columbia University). 



Distribution: Eastern Florida. 



62. Cracca tenella (A Gray) Rose, Contr U S Nat 

 Herb. 12: 271 1909. 



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



A perennial, with a deep rootstock, stem slender, branched, sparingly strigose or glabrate, 

 angled; leaves 6-10 cm. long; stipules subulate-filiform, 3-5 mm. long; petiole 1-3 cm. long; 

 rachis sparingly strigose; leaflets 7-9, rarely II, or on the lower leaves 3 or 5, linear, acute, 

 2-4 cm. long, 2-8 mm. wide, glabrous above, sparingly strigose beneath; racemes mostly 

 opposite the leaves, lax, few -flowered, including the peduncle 1-2 dm. long; flowers solitary or 

 two together at each node; bracts subulate; calyx sparingly strigose, the tube 2 mm. long, 

 the lobes lance-subulate, 2 mm. long; corolla about 8 mm. long, similar to that of C. purpurea; 

 pod nearly straight, 3-4.5 cm. long, 4 mm. wide, short-strigose, 6-8-seeded. 



Typb locality: San Pedro, Sonora. 



Distribution: Texas to Arizona, Lower California, and Chihuahua. 



63 Cracca piscatoria (Ait) Rydberg. 



Galega piscatoria Ait. Hort. Kew. 3: 71. 17N9. 

 Tephrosia piscatoria Pers. Syn. PI. 2: 329. 1807 



A more or less fruticose perennial; stem 5-10 dm. high, angled, striate or sulcate, strigose, 

 with ascending strict branches; leaves 8-10 cm. long; stipules subulate, 5-1(1 mm. long; 

 petiole less than 1 cm. long, as well as the rachis strigose; leaflets 11-19, linear or linear- 

 oblanceolate, 2-4 cm. long, 2-4 mm. wide, glabrous above, strigose beneath, obtuse or acutish 

 at the apex, acute at the base; racemes arranged iiregularly, terminal, obliquely axillary. 



