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elliptic, thin, 2.5-5 cm. long, 1-4 cm. wide, puberulent on both sides, or in age glabrate above, 

 with yellow glands beneath, rounded or retuse at each end and the midrib strong beneath, 

 but the veins faint; panicles and calyces yellowish-ferruginous; lips of the calyx subequal, 

 12 mm. long; corolla apparently white or pinkish, 15 mm. long; banner obovate; wings narrowly 

 oblanceolate, falcate, with an acute lanceolate recurved basal auricle; keel stiongly curved, 

 the petals free and rounded at the tip; pod 5-6 cm. long, 1.5 cm. wide, coriaceous, glabrous. 



Type locality: Wartenburg, near Tantoytica, Veracruz. 



Distribution: San Luis Potosi, northern Veracruz, and southern Tamaulipas. 



8. Harpalyce Pringlei Rose, Contr. U. S. Nat. Herb. 8: 42. 



1903. 



A low shiub, 3-20 dm. high; branches when young densely short- villous, more or less 

 ferruginous, in age glabrate and gray, with white lenticels; stipules minute, caducous; leaves 

 1-2 dm. long; petiole 2-4 cm. long, as well as the rachis densely ferruginous-villous, 

 with short hairs; leaflets 7-1 1, broadly elliptic or oblong, 2-4 cm. long, 1.5-2 cm. wide, rounded 

 at each end or retuse at the apex, thickish, strongly veined and reticulate, sparingly short- 

 pubescent on both sides, except the ribs beneath, which have the same pubescence as the 

 rachis, glabrate in age above, and with golden glands beneath; panicle and calyx densely 

 ferruginous; sepals about 18 mm. long; corolla bluish or white, about 2 cm. long; banner 

 obovate, 2 mm. wide; wings falcate, oblanceolate, with an acute basal auricle; keel-petals 

 strongly incurved, with rounded tips; pod oblong, 8-9 cm. long, 2-2.5 cm. wide, glabrous, 

 reticulate., 3-5-seeded. 



Type locality: Barranca above Cuernavaca, Morelos. 

 Distribution: Morelos. 



9. Harpalyce macrocarpa Britton & Wilson; Britton, Mem. 



Torrey Club 16: 67. 1920. 



A tree, 4 m. high, with slender branches; young twigs densely ferruginous-puberulent 

 and glandular-granuliferous; leaves 10-14 cm. long; petioles 1-3 cm. long, as well as the rachis 

 fenuginous-puberulent; leaflets 11-15, oblong or oblong-elliptic, 2-4 cm. long, 1-1.5 cm. 

 wide, rounded or emarginate at the apex, rounded or subcordate at the base, coriaceous, 

 glabrous and dark-green above, paler, finely reticulate-veined and dotted with yellow glands 

 beneath, the prominent midrib ferruginous-puberulent; flowers unknown; pod spatulate- 

 oblong, 5-6 cm. long, 1.5 cm. broad near the apex, somewhat falcate, glabrous, 6-7-seeded. 



Type locality: Border of arroyo, palm-barren, Santa Clara, Cuba. 

 Distribution: Known only from the type locality. 



10. Harpalyce villosa Britton & Wilson; Britton, Mem. Torrey 

 Club 16: 67. 1920. 



A tree, 3-4 m. high; branches when young densely fenuginous-villous, in age more gray 

 and grooved; leaves 6-7.5 cm. long; petiole 1-1.5 cm. long, as well as the rachis ferruginous- 

 villous; leaflets 1 1-13, oblong or elliptic-oblong, 2-2.7 cm. long, 6- 12 mm. wide, thick, coriace- 

 ous, rounded or retuse at each end, dark-green, glabrous or shiny above, densely ferruginous- 

 villous when young beneath, but in age glabrate, conspicuously glandular-punctate and 

 paler beneath, with a strong ferruginous midrib and indistinct lateral veins; calyx ferruginous- 

 villous, 2.5 cm. long; lips subequal, acutish; banner obovate, about 1 cm. long and 7 mm. wide; 

 wings obliquely obovate, 7 mm. long, with a small auricle on each side, that on the upper 

 side near the base; keel-petals linear, slightly falcate, about 28 mm. long, with a rounded 

 basal auricle en the upper side; pod oblong, 3.5-4 cm. long, 1-1.2 cm. wide, 5-7-seeded; seeds 

 5 mm. long, 4-4.5 mm broad. 



Type locality: Among rocks along stream, vicinity of Camp San Benito, Oriente, Cuba. 

 Distribution: Oriente, Cuba. 



