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15 mm. long; keel-petals oblanceolate, nearly straight, 18-20 mm. long, united at the middle, 

 obtuse; stamens exserted. fully 25 mm. long. 



Type locality: "Martinique" (probably erroneous). 

 Distribution: Hispaniola. 



3. Poitea longiflora Urban, Symb. Ant. 2: 290. 1900. 



A shrub; branches sparingly short-pilose when young,, soon glabrous, grayish; stipules 

 linear-subulate, 4-5 mm. long, connate at the base; leaves distichous, the rachis not winged; 

 leaflets 7-13, narrowly ovate or ovate-oblong, obtuse, mucronate, 3-6.5 cm. long, 1.5-3 cm. 

 wide, glabrous above, minutely pilulose beneath, rounded at the base, green above, grayish- 

 brown beneath; racemes axillary, corymbiform, 2-3.5 cm. long; bracts ovate, acuminate, 

 1-1.5 mm. long; bractlets none; calyx-tube cylindric-turbinate, 7 mm. long, the lobes very 

 short, triangular; corol'a red; banner obovate, truncate-emarginate, 20-25 mm. long, 13 mm. 

 broad, the claw 6 mm. long; wings oblong-linear, 25-30 m. long, 4 mm. wide, obtuse, somewhat 

 falcate; keel-petals linear-oblong, obtuse, 45-50 mm. long, 5 mm. broad, the claw 5 mm. long; 

 stamens exserted. 5.5 cm. long, diadelphous, the sheath somewhat dilated above, the alternate 

 filaments longer; ovary stipitate, linear, about 25-ovuled; mature pod unknown. 



Type locality: On granite rocks, on the banks of Nigua River, Santo Domingo. 

 Distribution: Known only from the type locality. 



4. Poitea multiflora (Sw.) Urban, Symb. Ant. 2: 291. 1900. 



Clitoria multiflora Sw. Prodr. 106. 1788. 

 Vilmorinia multiflora DC. Prodr. 2: 239. 1S25. 



A shrub, 1-2 m. high; young branches yellowish, tomentose, in age glabrate, grayish; 

 stipules subulate-setaceous, from a lanceolate base, connate at the base; leaves d : stichous, 

 the rachis not winged; leaflets 9-15, with petiolules 2.5-3 mm. long, ovate or ovate-elliptic, 

 rounded at the base, dark-green and short-pilose or glabrate above, paler and densely sericeous 

 and somewhat ferrugineous beneath; racemes many-flowered, 7-10 cm. long, light-yellowish 

 villous; bracts oblong-lanceolate to linear-subulate, 2-4 mm. long; calyx-tube oblong-campan- 

 ulate, short-pubescent or glabrate, 5-6 mm. long, the lobes very short, the upper two very 

 small or obsolete, all acutish; corolla violet or blood-red; banner obovate, rounded or etnar- 

 ginate at the apex, 2-3.5 cm. long, 1-2 cm. wide; wings 14-17 mm. long, linear, straight, 

 rounded at the apex 1.2-1.4 mm. wide; keel-petals nearly straight, oblong-linear, 23-28 mm. 

 long, 4 mm. wide, united above; stamens 2.5-3 cm. long, the sheath dilated above; pod linear, 

 12-16-seeded, glabrous; seeds subrotund, compressed. 



Type locality: Santo Domingo. 

 Distribution: Hispaniola. 



5. Poitea Plumieri Urban, Symb. Ant. 6:11. 1909. 



A shrub, 2.5-3 m. high; young branches densely pilose, especially at the top, the pubescence 

 first yellowish, in age white; stipules linear-subulate from a broader base, 5-8 mm. long; 

 leaves distichous, the rachis short-pilose, sulcate; leaflets 11-13, ovate or oval, rounded at the 

 apex, mucronate, 3-5 cm. long, 1.5-2 5 cm. wide, glabrous above, short-pilose and paler 

 beneath; racemes up to 2.5-3 cm. long; pedicels 10-12 mm. long; bracts subulate from a 

 broader base, 2-4 mm. long, persistent; calyx 6-7 mm. ong, cylindro-turbinate, pilosulous on 

 the margin; upper J^o lobes broadly triangular, obtuse, the lower three narrower, minute; 

 corolla red; banner oblong, rounded and emarginate at the apex, 23-26 mm. long. 8 mm. 

 wide; wings linear, straight, obtuse, 15 mm. long, 1 mm. wide; keel-petals linear-oblong, 

 obtuse at the apex, 25-28 mm. long, 3.5 mm. wide, united at the middle; stamens equaling 

 the keel; pod linear, 7-8.5 cm. long, 5-7 mm. wide, the stipe 7-8 mm. long; seeds obovate. 



Type locality: Aux Caye, between Camp-Perrin and la Ravine, Haiti. 



Distribution: Hispaniola. 



Illustration: Plumier, PI. Am. pi. 233, f. 1. 



