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corolla 12-18 mm. long, pink, often with a yellow eye on the banner; pod 10-15 cm. long, 

 2-3.2 cm. wide, 5-6-seeded, dark-brown; seeds 18-20 mm. high and 15-18 mm. broad. 



Type locality: Batabano, Cuba. 



Distribution: Cuba. 



Illustration: Sagra, Hist. Cub. 10: pi. 38 bis; Am. Jour. Bot. 11: pi. 35 Y. 



25. GLIRICIDIA H.B.K. Nov. Gen. & Sp. 6: 393. 

 1823.— Endl. Gen. 1273. 1840. 



Hybosema Harms, Repert. Sp. Nov. 19: 66. 1923. 



Trees or shrubs, with odd-pinnate leaves and small stipules but no stipels. Flowers in 

 axillary racemes often appearing before the leaves; bracts small, deciduous; bractlets none. 

 Calyx short-campanulate, as broad as long, truncate; teeth 5, broad and short or obsolete. 

 Banner orbicular, reflexed, often with two callosities at the base of the blade, short-clawed. 

 Wings oblong-oblanceolate, erect, free, with a basal auricle, short-clawed. Keel-petals strongly 

 arcuate above the middle, obtuse, unitedat the end, tapering at the base. Stamens diadel- 

 phous; sheath cylindric, not dilated at either end; anthers uniform. Ovary stipitate, 7—12- 

 ovuled ; style glabrous, inflexed at nearly a right angle; stigma capitate, papillose, not pubescent. 

 Pod short-stipitate, linear, compressed, 2-valved. Seeds rounded, compressed. 



Type species, Robinia sepium Jacq. 



Corolla more than 15 mm. long; leaflets 2-7 cm. long; the three lower calyx- 

 teeth distant. [Eu-Gliricidia.] 

 Calyces, peduncles, and pedicels glabrous or nearly so; bracts lanceolate, 



puberulent; corolla pink or white, with a yellow or white eye. 1. G. sepium. 



Calyces silky-pubescent; peduncles and pedicels puberulent; bracts ovate 

 or orbicular, pubescent. 

 Leaflets acuminate with a blunt apex, rather thin; corolla blue with a 



yellow eye. 2. G. Latnbii. 



Leaflets rounded or obtuse at each end, rather firm; corolla blotched 



with dark -purple. 3. G. maculata. 



Corolla 10-15 mm. long; leaflets 1-3 (rarely 3.5) cm. long; the lower three 

 calyx-teeth close together. [Hybosema.] 

 Leaflets appressed-pubescent beneath; corolla 12-15 mm. long. 



Stipules lanceolate, acuminate or acute. 4. G. guatemalensis. 



Stipules subulate-setaceous. 5. G. Ehrenbergii. 



Leaflets glabrous except the midrib beneath; corolla 10-12 mm. long. 6. G. meistophylla. 



1. Gliricidia sepium (Jacq.) Steud. Nom. Bot. 

 ed. 2. 1: 688. 1841. 



Robinia sepium Jacq. Enum. PI. Carib. 28. 1760. 

 Robinia hispida L. Mant. 101, in part. 1767. 

 Lonchocarpus sepium DC. Prodr. 2: 260. 1825. 

 Robinia variegata Schlecht. Linnaea 12: 301. 1838. 



Tree, 3-10 m. high; branches puberulent especially when young; stipules ovate or lance- 

 olate. 2 mm. long, deciduous; leaves 1-2 dm. long: rachis puberulent, sulcate; leaflets 7-15, 

 elliptic or oval, 3-7 cm. long, 2-3 cm. wide, acute at the base, bluntly acuminate or acute at 

 the apex, short-silky on both sides when young, glabrate in age; racemes 5-10 cm. long, often 

 2 or 3 from the same axil, many-flowered; bracts ovate, 1 mm. long, deciduous; pedicels about 

 5 mm long, articulate below the flower; calyx-tube proper 4 mm. long, and as wide, with a 

 stipe-like base 2 mm. long; corolla pink, usually with a yellow or white spot on the banner or 

 wholly white, 15-20 mm. long, the keel slightly shorter than the banner and wings; pod 10- 

 15 cm. long, 1.5 cm. wide, glabrous, short-stipitate; seeds lenticular, about 1 cm. high, dark- 

 brown. 



Type locality: West Indies. . ..„,..,, 



Distribution: West Indies, southern Mexico, and Central America; also in Colombia, Vene- 

 zuela, and Guiana. 



Illustrations: Jacq. Sel. Am. pi. 179, f. 101; Am. Jour. Bot. 11: pi. 35 Z. 



