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bescent, produced into a subulate tip 1-1.5 mm. long; leaflets 10-16, oblong, coriaceous, 5-12 

 mm. long, 2-5 mm. wide, dark and glabrous above, pale and strigulose beneath, rounded at 

 each end; pedicels 3-5 cm. long; calyx 3 mm. long and broad, brown, puberulent, its lobes 

 minute; corolla pink-purple; banner rounded-obovate, 7 mm. long; wings oblong-oblanceolate, 

 obtuse, 9 mm. long, the claw 2 mm. long; keel-petals fully 1 cm. long, oblanceolate-lunate, 

 obtuse; pod linear, glabrous, somewhat torulose. 



Type locality: Eastern Cuba. 

 Distribution: Eastern Cuba. 



3. Notodon cayensis Britton & Wilson; Britton, Mem. Torrey 

 Club 16: 68. 1920. 



A shrub, 1-2 m. high, with grayish-brown branches, the young twigs brownish-hirsutulous; 

 leaves 1-2 cm. long; petiole and rachis merely wing-margined, produced into a minute point; 

 leaflets 2 or 4, obovate, 7-12 mm. long, rounded at the apex, cuneate at the base, glabrous on 

 both sides, glaucous-green above, white or yellowish beneath, revolute; pedicels 4—5 mm. long; 

 calyx glabrous, 2 mm. high and 3 mm. broad; corolla bluish; banner rounded-obovate, 6 mm. 

 long, nearly as broad; wings obovate, 6-7 mm. long, rounded at the apex, with a small basal 

 auricle; keel-petals S-10 mm. long, united from the middle to near the rounded summit; ovary 

 glabrous, about 6-ovuled; pod unknown. 



Type locality: Cayo Guayaba, Camaguey, Cuba. 

 Distribution: Known only from the type locality. 



4 Notodon savannarum Britton & Wilson ; Britton, Mem. 

 Torrey Club 16: 69. 1920. 



A shrub, 0.5-2.5 m. high, the branches stiff and subspinescent, the young shoots brownish- 

 strigose; stipules subulate, 1 mm. long; leaves 1-1.5 cm. long; petiole and rachis rather broadly 

 winged, the free tip minute; leaflets 4—8, obovate or oblong-obovate, 4— S mm. long, rounded 

 at the apex, obtuse at the base, dark-green above, white or pale-yellow and with a strong midrib 

 beneath; flowers solitary or few on short axillary branches; pedicels about 2 mm. long; calyx 

 glabrous, 2.5 mm. high, 3 mm. broad; corolla rose-purple; banner orbicular, 6 mm. long, the 

 claw less than 1 mm. long; wings oblong-oblanceolate, 7 mm. long, with an acute basal auricle; 

 keel-petals 8 mm. long, oblanceolate-lunate, with abroad basal auricle; pod 3-4 cm. long, 4 mm 

 wide, 5-6-seeded, somewhat torulose. 



Type locality: Savannas near Camaguey, Cuba. 

 Distribution: Eastern Cuba. 



17. BEMBICIDIUM Rydb.; Britton, Mem. Torrey Club 16: 

 68. 1920. 



Low unarmed shrubs. Leaves abruptly pinnate; stipules lanceolate, peristent; petiole 

 and rachis broadly winged, the wings discontinuous, the rachis slightly produced above the 

 uppermost leaflets; leaflets entire, coriaceous, without veins, the midrib prominent beneath, 

 obsolete above; stipels obsolete. Flowers solitary in the axils. Calyx turbinate, tapering at 

 the base, as broad as long, with two broad, subequal, acute lips. Corolla purplish, with sub- 

 equal petals. Banner obovate, slightly retuse, gradually tapering into the short broad claw. 

 Wings and keel-petals equal in length and shape, the blades obliquely oblanceolate, rounded 

 at the apex, slightly auricled at the base, the claws short, straight, the blades of the keel- 

 petals united at the middle only. Ovary slightly stipitate, linear, many-ovuled ; style glabrous, ■ 

 bent inward at the base, slightly arcuate, not hooked at the apex; stigma minute, terminal. 

 Fruit unknown. 



Type species, Bembicidium cubense Rydb. 



