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falcate with an acute basal auricle; keel-petals 27-30 mm. long; blade oblong-oblanceolate, 

 rounded at the apex; filaments subequal; style exserted; pod unknown. 



Type locality: Dominica. 



Distribution: Known only from the type locality. 



15. CORYNELLA DC. Ann. Sci. Nat. 4: 93. 1825. 



Cor\nites Spreng. Svst. 4 2 : 263. 2S0. 1S27. 



Toxolropis Turcz. Bull. Soc. Nat. Mosc. 19-: 506. 1846. 



Low shrubs. Leaves abruptly pinnate, with subulate spinescent erect stipules and 

 coriaceous leaflets. Flowers purple, fascicled on short axillary branches, appearing before the 

 leaves. Calyx campanulate, with short lobes. Banner broadly obovate or suborbicular, 

 short-clawed. Wings lanceolate or oblong, with rather conspicuous basal auricles, the claws 

 strongly curved. Keel-petals longer than the banner, clawed, the blades strongly lunate, 

 with obtuse to acuminate tips and small basal auricles. Stamens diadelphous, the staminal 

 sheath equally broad throughout, the filaments subequal. Style glabrous, bent at the base, 

 strongly hooked and dilated at the end, the stigma sub-terminal, under the tip. Pod linear, 

 slightly stipitate, many-seeded, not torulose. 



Type species, Robinia polyantha Sw. 



Keel-petals acuminate, united to the tip; leaves pubescent beneath. 1. C. dubia. 



Keel-petals acute or obtuse, with free tips; leaves glabrous or nearly so beneath. .2 C. paucifolia. 



1. Corynella dubia (Poir.) Urban, Symb. Ant. 1 : 322. 1899. 



Robinia dubia Poir. in Lam. Encyc. 6: 227. 1804. 



Robinia polvanlha Sw. Fl. Ind. Occ. 1260. 1806. 



Robinia marlinicensis Pers. Syn. PI. 2: 312. 1S07. 



Tephrosia moschata Tussac, Fl. Ant. 2: 23. 1818. 



Sabinea dubia DC. Ann. Sci. Nat. 4: 92. 1825. 



Corynella polyantha DC. Ann. Sci. Nat. 4: 93. 1S25. 



Corvnites polyantha Spreng. Svst. 4 2 : 280. 1827. 



Toxytropis Jaegeri Turcz. Bull. Soc. Nat. Mosc. 19 2 : 507. 1846. 



Corynites Jaegeri Kuntze, Rev. Gen. 173. 1891. 



A small shrub, 1-3 in. high; branches densely pilose when young; stipules subulate, spin- 

 escent, 3-6 mm. long; leaves 4—6 cm. long; rachis pilose, slightly sulcate above; leaflets 10-14, 

 obovate, rounded and mucronate at the apex, acute at the base, at first puberulent but soon 

 glabrous above, appressed silky-pilose beneath, the petiolules less than 1 mm. long; bracts 

 subulate, 1-2 mm. long; pedicels about 5 mm. long; calyx densely brown-pilose, the tube 2 mm. 

 long, 3 mm. broad, the teeth lance-subulate, 2 mm. long; corolla purple; banner about 8 mm. 

 long and broad, short-clawed, the blade broadly ovate, acutish; wings of about the same length, 

 the blades narrowly lanceolate, with a rather large basal auricle, the claws curved, 1.5 mm. 

 long, acute; keel-petal lunate, 12 mm. long, the blade united to the tip, acuminate, with a 

 small basal auricle, the claws 2 mm. long; style hooked and strongly dilated at the apex; pod 

 4-5 cm. long, 5-6 mm. wide, glabrous, 12-16-seeded, linear, slightly stipitate; seeds sub- 

 orbicular, lenticular, almost black, shining, 4 mm. broad. 



Type locality: "Martinique." but probably erroneous. 

 Distribution: Hispaniola. 



Illustrations: Lam. Tab. Encyc. pi. 606, f. 2; Tussac, Fl. Ant. 2: pi. 6; Am. Jour. Bot. 

 11: pi. 33 O. 



2. Corynella paucifolia DC. Ann. Sci. Nat. 4: 93. 1825. 



Robinia domingensis Spreng. Svst. 3: 245. 1826. 

 Corynites domingensis Spreng. Syst. 4-: 280. 1827. 

 Corynites paucifolia Kuntze, Rev. Gen. 173. 1891. 



A shrub, 0.5-2 m. high; branches strigose when young; stipules subulate, 5 mm. long, 

 spinescent; leaves 1.5-4 cm. long; rachis strigose, sulcate above; leaflets 4-8, oval or obovate, 

 mucronate, glabrous above, 5—18 mm. long, 3-8 mm. wide, sparingly strigose and glabrate 



