Part 4, 1924] FABACEAE: GALEGEAE 245 



5. Benthamantha bicolor (M. Micheli) Rose, Contr. U. S. 

 Nat. Herb. 10: 99. 1906. 



- Cracca bicolor M. Micheli, Bull. Herb. Boiss. 2: 444. 1894. 



A suffrutescent perennial; stem erect, villous-canescent; stipules subulate-setaceous, 6-8 

 mm. long; leaves 5-S cm. long, densely villous, stipels minute, setaceous; leaflets 11-13, oval, 

 obtuse at both ends, mucronate, 8-18 mm. long. 4-S mm. wide, silky-villous on both sides; 

 racemes 4-10 cm. long, 4—7-flowered; bracts lance-subulate, 3 mm. long; calyx appressed- 

 pubescent, the tube 2 mm. long, the lobes lance-subulate, 4 mm. long; corolla about 9 mm. 

 long, ochroleucous, the banner purplish, retuse; pod puberulent, 4 cm. long, nearly 3 mm. wide. 



Type locality: Near Cumert, Quiche. Guatemala. 

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



6. Benthamantha mollis (H.B.K.) Alef. Bonplandia 

 10: 264. 1862. 



- Tephrosia mollis H.B.K. Nov. Gen. & Sr>. 6: 463. 1823. 

 ^Cracca mollis Benth. & Oerst. Vidensk. Meddel. 1853: 9. 1853. 



Benthamantha fruticosa Rose, Contr. U. S. Nat. Herb. 10: 99. 1906. 



A shrub, perhaps 2 m. high; branches silky-villous when young, straw-colored and glabrous 

 the second year; stipules setaceous, 4-8 mm. long; leaves about 5 cm. long; rachis short- villous; 

 stipels subulate, minute; leaflets 7-13, elliptic, 1-4 cm. long, rounded at the apex, mucronate, 

 silky on both sides (the hairs short on the upper side, longer on the lower) ; racemes 5-10 cm. 

 long, 5-10-flowered; bracts subulate, 3 mm. long;calyx silky-pilose, the tube 2 mm. long, the 

 lobes 3-4 mm. long, lance-subulate, attenuate; corolla about 9 mm. long, greenish-yellow, 

 the banner more or less tinged with purple; pod 4-6 cm. long, 3 mm. wide, puberulent, 20-25- 

 seeded, 6-7 cm. long, 3 mm. wide. 



Type locality: Cumanacoa, Venezuela. 



Distribution: Yucatan to San Luis Potosi, Guerrero, and south to Ecuador and Venezuela. 



7. Benthamantha caribaea (Jaeq.) Kuntze, Rev. 

 Gen. 3 3 : 53. 1898. 



- Galega caribaea Jacq. Sel. Stirp. Am. 212. 1763. 

 Galega pubescens Lam. Encycl. 2: 597. 17S6. 

 Tephrosia caribaea DC. Pro'dr. 2: 251. 1825. 



Cracca caribaea Benth.; Benth. & Oerst. Vidensk. Meddel. 1853: 9. 1S53. 

 Tephrosia aniloides Bello, Anal. Soc. Esp. Hist. Nat. 10: 258. 1SS1. 

 Brittonamra caribaea Kuntze, Rev. Gen. 164. 1891. 

 Briltonamra caribaea Grisebachiana Kuntze, Rev. Gen. 165. 1891. 

 Brittonamra caribaea Jacquiniana Kuntze, Rev. Gen. 165. 1891. 

 Cracca aniloides Cook & Collins, Contr. U. S. Nat. Herb. 8: 128. 1903. 



A shrub,*5-15 dm. high; branches more or less strigose-canescent, in age glabrate and 

 straw-colored; stipules setaceous, 4-10 mm. long; leaves 4-10 cm. long; rachis strigose or pilose; 

 leaflets 1 1-25, elliptic, from rounded to acute at each end, cuspidate, 0.6-3 cm. long, silky- 

 strigose on both sides, sometimes densely sericeous beneath; stipels 1 mm. long or less, subu- 

 late; racemes 4-6 cm. long, 1-6-flowered; bracts subulate, 3-5 mm. long; calyx silky-strigose, 

 the tube 2.5 mm. long, the lobes lance-subulate, attenuate, 3 mm. long; corolla 10-12 mm. 

 long, white, or the banner ochroleucous, often veined with purple, or wholly pink or purplish; 

 pod 5-6 cm. long, 3 mm. wide, puberulent, 16-22-seeded; seeds subrectangular, 2 mm. long, 

 1.5 mm. broad. 



Type locality: The Caribbeans. 



Distribution: Hispaniola; Porto Rico; Lesser Antilles; Panama; also in northern South 

 America. 



Illustrations: Jacq. Sel. Stirp. Am. */. 125; Sel. Stirp. Am. Pict. pi. 193; Am. lour. Bot. 

 11: pi. 36 C. 



