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(ir sub-opposite the leaves, 1-2 dm. long, strict; bracts subulate, 5-8 mm. long; calyx strigose, 

 the tube 2 mm. long, the lobes lance subulate, acuminate, 2 mm. long; corolla pink or purplish, 

 7-8 mm. long; pod about 5 cm. lout;. -I nun wide, slightly arcuate upwards, strigulose.* 



Typr locality: India. 



DISTRIBUTION: Morelos and Tepio to Colombia; also in India and the Pacific islands. 



64. Cracca angustissima (Shuttl.) Kuntze, Rev. Gen. 174. 1891. 



Tephrosia angustissima Shuttl.; Chapm. Fl. S. U. S. 96. 1860. 

 Tephrosia purpurea angustissima li. 1.. Robinson, Bot. Gaz. 28: 201 . 1899. 



A perennial, moie or less shrubby below; stem 5-7 dm. high, glabrous or sparingly strigose, 



branched; leaves 6-10 cm. long; stipules subulate, setaceous, 2-3 mm. long; petiole about 



1 cm. long; leaflets 11-15, narrowly linear, mucronate, 2-5 mm. long, 1-3 mm. wide, glabrous 



above, sparingly strigulose or glabrate beneath; racemes slender, lax, including the peduncle 



1-2 dm. long; bractlets subulate; calyx sparingly strigose, the tube 2 mm. long, the lobes 



subulate, 2 mm. long; corolla purple, about 1 cm. long or less; banner suborbicular, strigose 



without; wings broadly obliquely oblanceolate, with a rounded basal auricle; pod 4-5 cm. 



long, 4 mm. wide, nearly straight, minutely strigose, 7-9-seeded. 



Typb locality: South Florida. 

 Distribution: Subtropical Florida. 



65. Cracca hypoleuca Rydberg. 



Indigofera Perriniana Spreng. Ncue F,ntd. 2: 161. 1821. Not Cracca Perriniana (Spreng.) Kuntze 

 1891. 



A perennial herb; stem slender, brownish, branched, sparingly strigose; leaves 4-7 cm. 

 long; stipules setaceous, about 3 mm. long; rachis more or less strigose; leaflets about 9-15, 

 narrowly linear, 2-7 cm. long, 1-3 mm. wide, glabrous or nearly so above, densely silvery- 

 strigose beneath, mucronate; racemes few-flowered, including the peduncle 4-20 cm. long, 

 slender; bracts minute, subulate-setaceous; calyx strigose, the tube 1.5 mm. long, the lobes 

 subulate, 1.5 mm. long; corolla pink, 6-10 mm. long; pod linear, slightly arcuate upwards, 

 about 4 cm. long and 3 mm. wide, ferruginous-hirsutulous, 10-12-seeded. 



Typb locality: "America, probably South" fon the label, it is given as West Indies). 



Distribution: Known only from the type collection. 



66 Cracca Wallichii (Graham) Rydberg. 



Tephrosia Wallichii Graham (Wall. Cat no. 5640, nomen nudum); Fawcett & Rendle, Jour. Bot. 

 55:35. 1917. 



A perennial, subligneous at the base; stem terete, 3-5 dm. high, sparingly strigose or 

 glabrate; leaves 6-10 cm. long; stipules lance subulate, 5-7 mm. long; petiole 5-10 mm. 

 long; iachis sparingly strigose; leaflets 11-19, oblong, cuneate, or oblanceolate, glabrous above, 

 cinereous-strigose beneath, 1.5-2.5 cm. long, 5-15 mm. wide; racemes lax, 8-10 cm. long, 

 opposite the leaves; flowers 1-3 at each node; calyx strigose, the tube 2 mm. long, the lobes 

 about 3 mm. long, subulate; corolla 8-10 mm. long, red-purple; banner suborbicular, strigose 

 without; wings oblong-oblanceolate ; pod 3-4 cm. long, strigillose, 5-7-seeded. 



Typb locality: India. 



Distribution: Jamaica, Haiti, St. Kitts, Dominica, Barbados, and Trinidad; naturalized from 

 India. 



67. Cracca cathartica (Sesse & Moc ) Rydberg. 



Galega cathartica Sesse & Moc. Fl. Mex. ed. 2. 175. 1894 

 Cratca Schottii Vail. Bull. Torrev Club 22: 25. 1895. 

 Tephrosia cathartica Urban, Symb. Ant. 4: 283. 1905. 



A perennial, somewhat woody below; stem 3-5 dm. long, strigose, erect or decumbent, 

 angled; leaves 4-10 cm. long; stipules 4-7 mm. long, subulate, persistent; petioles 1-2.5 cm. 

 long; rachis strigose; leaflets 5, oblong-oblanceolate to obovate, 1-3 cm. long, rounded or 



* This description does not fully agree with the original one but it has been drawn from Oersted's 

 specimens, collected near Realejo, Nicaragua, and so named by Bentham, and from several similar 

 Mexican and Central American specimens. 



