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2. Gliricidia Lambii Fernald, Bot. Gaz. 20: 533. 1895. 



A tree, 5-8 m.high; branches minutely puberulent; leaves 1.5-2 dm. long;leaflets mostly 7, 

 ovate-oblong, 5-7 cm. long, tapering to an obtuse tip, glabrous on both sides or puberulent- 

 silky beneath; rachis appressed-silky ; racemes clustered, 5-10 cm. long, appressed-pubescent; 

 pedicels about 12 mm. long; bracts suborbicular, fuscous-pubescent; calyx appressed-silky. 7mm. 

 long, 10 mm. broad; corolla pale-blue, fading in age; banner yellow at the base, suborbicular, 

 2.5 cm. long; wings 22 mm. long, broadly oblanceolate, semi-hastate at the base; keel 2 cm. 

 long, 5 mm. wide. 



Type locality: Rosario, Sinaloa. 

 Distribution: Sinaloa and Tepic. 



3. Gliricidia maculata (H.B.K.) Steud. Norn. Bot. 

 ed. 2. 1: 6S8. 1841. 



Robinia maculata H.B.K. Nov. Gen. & Sp. 6: 393. 1823. 



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



Glirichidia sepium i. maculata Urban, Symb. Ant. 2: 289. 1900. 



A tree, 3-5 m. high; branches puberulent when young; leaves 1-1.5 dm. long; leaflets 13- 

 1 7, oblong or elliptic, obtuse at each end, reticulate- venose, glabrous above, sparingly pubes- 

 cent beneath; glaucescent and usually spotted, 3-5 cm. long; rachis terete; racemes 1-1.5 cm. 

 long, puberulent; pedicels about 6 mm. long, articulate under the flower; calyx as in G. sepium, 

 puberulent; corolla 18-20 mm. long; banner blotched with purple, with a yellow eye; wings 

 purple-spotted; pod 10-11-seeded. 



Type locality: Campeche. 

 Distribution: Yucatan and Campeche. 



4. Gliricidia guatemalensis M. Micheli, Bull. 



Herb. Boiss. 2: 442. 1894. 



A shrub; branches sparingly appressed-pubescent when young, in age glabrous, dotted 

 with conspicuous lentice'.s; stipules lanceolate, acuminate or acute, pubescent, 5-6 mm. long; 

 leaves 8-10 cm. long; rachis appressed-pubescent; leaflets 15-17, ovate or oblong, rounded at 

 the base, mucronate at the apex, glabrous above, paler and appressed-pubescent beneath, 

 1.5-2 cm. long, 8-10 mm. broad; racemes 2 or 3, on short axillary branches, S-10 cm. long; 

 bracts minute, hirsute, deciduous; calyx 7-8 mm. long, puberulent above, somewhat 2-lipped; 

 lobes 5, the upper 2 and the lower 3 close together; corolla 12-15 mm. long; banner broadly 

 obovate, retuse, wich prominent callosities above the short claw; wings oblong, with a rounded 

 basal auricle the claw half as long as the blade; keel-petals broadly obliquely oblanceolate, 

 with an obsolete basal auricle; ovary stipitate, 7-8 ovuled; style inflexed, glabrous. 



Type locality: Sacabaja. Quiche, Guatemala. 

 Distribution: Guatemala. 

 Illustration: Bull. Herb. Boiss. 2: pi. 10. 



5. Gliricidia Ehrenbergii (Schlecht.) Rydberg. 



Robinia Ehrenbergii Schlecht. Linnaea 12: 303. 1838. 

 Bybosema Ehrenbergii Harms, Repert. Sp. Nov. 19: 66. 1923. 

 Robinia spilophylla Standley, MS. 



A shrub, about 1 m. high; branches brownish, with white lenticels, sparingly strigose; 

 stipules subulate-setaceous from a broad base, pubescent, 6-10 mm. long; leaves 1-1.5 dm. 

 long; rachis appressed-pubescent; leaflets 9-17, oval or elliptic, rounded at both ends and 

 mucronate, glabrous above, appressed-pubescent beneath, 2-3.5 cm. long, 1-2 cm. wide; 



