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retuse at the apex, cuneate at the base, strigose on both sides, usually sericeous beneath; 

 racemes opposite the leaves, lax, few-flowered, including the peduncle 5-15 cm. long; flowers 

 1 or 2 at each node; bracts subulate, 7-10 mm. long; calyx strigose, the tube 2 mm. long, the 

 lobes lance-subulate, nearly 3 mm. long; corolla rose-purple, 7-10 mm. long; banner suborbieu- 

 lar, short-clawed, strigose on the back; wings broadly obliquely oblanceolate, with an acute 

 basal auricle; pod 3-5 cm. long, 4-5 mm. wide, straight, strigose, 6-8-seeded; seed brownish, 

 mottled, 3.5-4 mm. long, 2.5 mm. broad. 



Type LOCALITY: Porto Rico. 



Distribution: Bahamas, Cuba, Hispaniola, Lesser Antilles; Yucatan and Honduras; also in 

 Colombia. 



68. Cracca domingensis (Willd ) Rydberg. 



Calcga domingensis Willd. Sp. PI. 3: 1249. 1803. 

 Tephrosia domingensis Pers. Syn. PI. 2: 330. 1807. 



A perennial, with woody caudex; stems ascending or decumbent, branched, glabrous or 

 nearly so, 3-6 dm. high; leaves 5-10 cm. long; stipules subulate, 7-10 mm. long; petiole ! 

 cm. long or less, as well as the rachis glabrous; leaflets 11-19, linear-oblanceolate, obtuse or 

 acutish and mucronate at the apex, acute at the base, 1-3 cm. long, 3-6 mm. wide, glabrous 

 on both sides, or with scattered hairs beneath; racemes opposite the leaves, 10-15 cm. long; 

 bracts subulate, 4-7 mm. long; calyx with a few rathei loose hairs, the tube 2 mm. long, the 

 lobes subulate, 4 mm. long; corolla nearly 1 cm. long, rose-purple; pod straight, 4-5 cm. 

 long, 4 mm. wide, very sparingly strigose or nearly glabrous, S-llseeded. Closely related 

 to the next species. 



Type locality: Santo Domingo. 



DisTRinL'TiON: Cuba and Santo Domingo. 



69. Cracca cinerea (L ) Morong, Ann. N. Y. Acad. 

 Sci. 7: 79. 1892. 



Galega cinerea I. Syst. Nat. ed. 10. 1172. 1759. 



Tephrosia cinerea Pers. Syn. PI. 2: 529. 1S07. 



Tcphroiia procumbens Macfad. PI. Jam. 1: 256. 1837. Not T. procumbens Buch.-Ham. 1822. 



Cracca villosa cinerea Kuntze, Rev. Gen. 173. 1891. 



A perennial, suffruticose below, with a woody root; stem prostrate, diffuse or ascending, 

 3-6 dm. high, strigose, cinereous especially when young, angled; leaves 4- 10 cm. long; stipules 

 3-8 mm. long, acuminate, persistent; petiole 5-15 mm. long; rachis cineieous-strigose; leaf- 

 lets 9-17, linear- or oblong-oblanceolate, 2-5 cm. long, 4-8 mm. wide, obtuse or acutish at 

 the apex, acute at the base, sparingly strigose or glabrate above, cinereous-strigose beneath, 

 or in one form almost equally cinereous on both sides; racemes opposite the leaves, lax, in- 

 cluding the peduncle 5-10 cm. long; bractlets subulate or setaceous, persistent; calyx cinereous- 

 strigose, the tube 2 mm. long, the lobes subulate, 3 mm. long or more; corolla purplish, 10- 

 15 mm. long; banner suborbicular, strigose without; pod 4-5 cm. long, 4-5 mm. wide, strigose, 

 nearly straight, 6-12 seeded; seeds brown, mottled, 4 mm. long, 2 mm. broad. 



TypB locality: [By inference] Jamaica. 



Distribution: West Indies; Yucatan, Chiapas, and Guatemala; also from Venezuela and 

 Colombia to Paraguay; introduced at Mobile, Alabama. 



70 Cracca Rusbyi Rydberg, sp. nov. 



A perennial herb, suffruticose below; stem 5 dm. high or more, sparingly strigose, angled, 

 slender; leaves 10M5 cm. long; stipules sulcate-setaceous, 8-10 mm. long; petiole 1-2 cm. 

 long; rachis strigose; leaflets 9-1 1, narrowly linear, tapering at each end, 3-7 cm. long, 1.5-3 

 mm. wide, strigose below, glabrate above; racemes lax, including the peduncle 3-3.5 dm. 

 long; flowers 1-3 at each node; bractlets subulate, 5-8 mm. long; calyx loosely strigose, the 

 tube 2 mm. long, the lobes subulate, 3-4 mm. long; corolla red-puiple, 8-9 mm. long; young 

 pod strigose, 7-9-seedcd; mature pod unknown. 



Type collected at Santa Catarina, Oaxaca, July 14, 1910, // //. Rtuby 01 (herb. N. Y. Hot. 

 Card.). 



