

Part 4, 1924] FABACEAE: GALEGEAE 201 



11. Harpalyce cubensis Griseb. Cat. PI. Cub. 71. 1866. 



A shrub, 2-3 m. high; branches when young ferruginous-puberulent and glandular- 

 granuliferous, in age glabrate; stipules minute, caducous; leaves 5-9 cm. long; petioles about 

 1 cm. long, as well as the rachis ferruginous-puberulent; leaflets 9-17, coriaceous, oblong, 

 1-3 cm. long, 5-10 mm. wide, dark-green and glabrous above, densely yellowish and densely 

 glandular-lepidote beneath, ferruginous-puberulent on the strong midrib, the lateral veins 

 indistinct; racemes axillary, few-flowered, shorter than the leaves; calyx densely glandular- 

 lepidote; calyx-lips subequal, about 15 mm. long, lanceolate, acutish; petals dark-crimson, 

 fleshy; banner erect, oblong-obovate, fully 1 cm. long, 4-5 mm. wide; wings oblanceolate, 

 irregularly contorted, with a lobe on each side, nearly 1 cm. long; keel-petals oblanceolate, 

 somewhat falcate, with a basal auricle on the upper side, the upper one-third adnate but often 

 separating in age, 18-20 mm. long; staminal sheath straight, split on upper side; filaments 

 free about one third their length; anthers lanceolate, acuminate; pod rhomboid in outline, 

 2-2.5 cm. long, 1-1.5 cm. wide, glabrous, 1-2-seeded. 



Type locality: Western Cuba. 



Distribution: Western Cuba. 



Illustration: Am. Jour. Bot. 10: pi. 34 F,f. 9-12. 



Subtribe 4. BARBIERIANAE. Shrubs, with alternate odd-pinnate leaves, 

 narrow stipules and stipels; leaflets netted- veined. Flowers in axillary and 

 terminal racemes, each subtended by a pair of bractlets. Calyx cylindric, 

 5-lobed. Corolla somewhat papilionaceous, the petals narrow, with long claws, 

 the banner not spreading. Stamens diadelphous; anthers uniform. Pod flat, 

 2-valved, many-seeded. Seeds not strophiolate. 



7. BARBIERIA DC. Mem. Leg. 241. 1825. 



Shrubs, with alternate odd-pinnate leaves, and subulate stipules and stipels. Calyx 

 subtended by 2 bracteoles, tubular, colored, with 5 subequal lobes. Corolla red, the petals 

 contracted below into long slender claws. Banner with an oblanceolate blade. Wings shorter 

 than the banner and keel, with an elliptic blade. Keel-petals with oblanceolate or oblong ob- 

 tuse blades, united above the middle. Stamens diadelphous, the upper filament free, straight; 

 sheath straight; anthers uniform. Ovary sessile, many-ovuled, pubescent, the style long, 

 slightly curved above, hairy along the upper side; stigma minute, terminal. Pod flat, straight, 

 2-valved, transversely septate within, and impressed without between the seeds; seeds trans- 

 versely oblong-reniform. 



Type species, Clitoria polyphylla Poir. 



1. Barbieria pinnata (Pers.) Baillon, Hist. PI. 2: 263. 1870. 



Galaclia pinnata Pers. Syn. PI. 2: 302. 1807. 



Clitoria polvphvlla Poir.; Lam. Encvc. Suppl. 2: 300. 181 1 . 



Barbieria polyphylla DC. M6m. Leg. 242. 1825. 



Barbieria mayncnsis Poepp. & Endl. Nov. Gen. & Sp. 3: 58. 1845. 



A shrub, 0.5-4 m. high, sometimes somewhat climbing; branches terete, somewhat hirsute 

 when young; stipules lance-subulate, 1 cm. long, acuminate, several-ribbed; leaves 1-2 cm. 

 long; rachis sparingly hirsute; stipules subulate-setaceous, 3 mm. long; leaflets 17-23, oblong, 

 2-4 cm. long, 8-15 mm. wide, rounded at each end, mucronate, green and glabrous above, 

 pale and appressed-silky beneath; racemes 1-1.5 dm. long; bracts lance-subulate, persistent; 

 bractlets under the calyx lanceolate, acuminate; ealyx-tube about 2 cm. long, pilose, the 

 lobes fully 1 cm. long, with a deltoid base, tapering into a filiform tip; corolla 5-5.5 cm. long; 

 pod 3-6 cm. long, 5 mm. wide, hirsute, 4-9-seeded; seeds 5 mm. long, 3 mm. broad, black. 



Type locality: Antilles. 



Distribution: Cuba, Hispaniola, and Porto Rico; southern Mexico to Bolivia and Brazil. 

 • Illustrations: DC. Mem. Leg. pi. 39; Poepp. & Endl. Nov. Gen. & Sp. pi. 264; Mart. Fl. 

 Bras. 2S l : pi. 9; E. & P. Nat. Pfl. 3 3 :/. 116 C-G; Am. Jour. Bot. 10: pi. 34 G. 



