Part 4, 1921] FABACEAE: GALEGEAE 233 



Type locality: Sierra Madre, Guerrero or Michoacan. 



Distribution: Known only from the type locality. 



Illustrations: Mem. Soc. Geneve 34: pi. 6; Am. Jour. Bot. 11: pi. 34 T, f. 0-11. 



Excluded species 

 Coursetia virgata DC. Ann. Sci. Nat. 4: 92. 1S24. Thi-> i^ Daubentonia virgata. 



21. LENNEA Klotzsch; Link, Klotzsch, & Otto, Ic. PI. Rar. Hort. 

 Berol. 2:65. 1S42. 



Trees or shrubs, with odd-pinnate leaves, and subulate or setaceous deciduous stipules 

 and stipels. Flowers in axillary racemes with subulate or setaceous bracts. Calyx campanu- 

 late, with 5 short teeth. Corolla with subequal petals. Banner reflexed, the blade orbicular, 

 the claw short. Wings short-clawed, the blades obliquely oblong, with a basal auricle. Keel- 

 petals somewhat lunate, obtuse, united above, with a rounded basal auricle. Stamens 10, 

 monadelphous, the upper filament free and somewhat kneed at the base, then united to the 

 sheath to above the middle, and then again free; anthers uniform. Ovary short-stipitate, 

 many-ovuled ; style short-pubescent along the upper margin, strongly spirally curved towards 

 the apex; stigma terminal. Pod linear, slightly stipitate, many-seeded, without cross-partitions. 

 Seeds lenticular. 



Type species, Lennea robinioides Klotzsch. 



Flowers appearing with the leaves; leaflets elliptic or oblanceolate, rounded 

 at the apex. 

 Flowers purple, in lax racemes; leaves glabrous; upper calyx-lobes united 



halfway to the apex. 1. L. melanocarpa. 



Flowers light-yellow or greenish, in dense erect racemes; leaves strigose 



beneath;branchesferruginous;uppercalyx-lobesunited nearly to theapex. 2. L. brunnescens. 

 Flowers light-yellow, in short dense racemes, appearing before the leaves; 



leaflets ovate, blunt-acute, hirsutulous. 3. L. viridijlora. 



1. Lennea melanocarpa (Schlecht.) Yatke; Harms, Repert. 

 Sp. Nov. 19: 68. 1923. 



Robinia melanocarpa Schlecht. Linnaea 12: 305. 1838. 



Lennea robinioides Klotzsch; Link, Klotzsch S: Otto, Ic. PI. Rar. Hort. Berol. 2: 65. 1842. 



Calotnorphe Ehrenbergiana Kunze; Walp. Rep. 1: 680, as synonym. 1842. 



A shrub, 1 m. high or more, perhaps sometimes a low tree; branches slender, glabrous; 

 leaves about 1 dm. long; stipules 1-2 mm. long, subulate; stipels less than 1 mm. long; rachis 

 slender, glabrous; leaflets 9-13, elliptic, rounded at the apex, acutish at the base, short-petio- 

 luled, glabrous, entire, 4-5 cm. long, 1.5-2 cm. wide; racemes slender, drooping, often paired; 

 pedicels 2-3 mm. long; calyx about 2 mm. high and broad; teeth triangular, acute; corolla red- 

 purple, about I cm. long, the petals subequal and yellowish at the base; banner obcordate; 

 keel-petals united at the apex; pod 5-7 cm. long, 12 mm. wide, tapering into a short stipe at the 

 base, reddish- fuscous, 3-4-seeded, glabrous. 



Type locality: Cultivated specimens from Mexican seeds. 

 Distribution: Veracruz. 



Illustrations: Link, Klotzsch, & Otto, Ic. PI. Rar. Hort. Berol. pi. 26; Am. Tour. Bot. 11: pi. 

 34 U. 



2. Lennea brunnescens Standley, Contr. U. S. Nat. Herb. 23: 

 480. 1922. 



A tree, 7-9 m. high, with gray bark; young branches ferruginous-pubescent, almost velu- 

 tinous; stipules lanceolate, 2-3 mm. long, ferruginous; leaves 1-1.5 dm. long; rachis and petiole 

 ferruginous-pubescent; leaflets 11-13, elliptic or oblanceolate. rounded at the apex, 2-5 cm. 

 long, 1-2 cm. wide, glabrous and reticulate above, sparingly strigose beneath, yellowish-green; 

 racemes 2-5 cm. long; bracts small, lanceolate, brown, 1-2 mm. long; calyx ferruginous, the 



