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segments lanceolate; corolla about I cm. long; legume 2.5 to 3.5 cm. long, 8 mm. wide, 

 glabrous. 



Near Bayamon along roads; near Coamo; near Mayaguez, on hills al Boquillae and 

 in coast districts al Ugarrobo. Cuba, II. mi , St. Kitts, Guadeloupe, Dominica Mar 

 tinique, St. Vincent, Trinidad (Grisebach . Mexico. Frequent in the warmer regions 

 of South America. 



Local name, cast ab( lillo. 



'_'. Crotalaria sagittalis I,. 



i Urban, 280. 



Annual, hairy; stem l<> to 20 sometimes 30 cm. high, erect, branching; leaves 

 simple oval or oblong-lanceolate, 2.5 to 5 cm. long, pubescenl with long, soft hairs, 

 scarcely petioled; Btipules occasionally wholly wanting, usually present, united and 

 decurrent on the stem, obversely sagittate, nearly all, bul especially those of the upper 

 leaves, large, the free portion triangular-lanceolate; peduncles rather Bhort, aboul 

 3-flowered, opposite the leaves; corolla rather shorter than the calyx; legume scarcely 

 stipitate, coriaceous, several-seeded; seeds small, shining, black when ripe, rattling 

 in the inflated legume. 



Near Bayamon, in fields on the coasl at Cataiio; near Yauco on .Mount Duey. — 

 Jamaica. Haiti. North America, Mexico, and as far as Peru. 



3. Crotalaria retusa L. 



(Urban, 281.) 



Annual, erect, 1 meter high; leaflets 5.5 to 7.5 cm. long, 2 to 3 cm. wide very short- 

 petioled, glabrous above, sericeo-canescenl beneath; raceme 15 to 30 cm. long; flowers 

 yellow, the standard variegated; calyx bilabiate, exceeded by the corolla: corolla 

 L.5 to 2.25 cm. long; legume 3 cm. long, 1.25 cm. wide, glabrous. 



Near Bayamon along roads; near Cataiio; near Cabeza de San Jtian: nearMaunabo, 

 at Punta de la Tuna; near Patillas, in coast districts ai Guardaraya; near Cabo Rojo 

 in pasture.-: near Mayaguez, on Mount Mesa. — Bahama. Cuba, Jamaica, Haiti. St. 

 Thomas, St. Croix, St. .John (Eggersi. St. Martin (Stockholm Berbarium . St. Bar- 

 tholomew (do.), SI . Kit ts, < ruadeloupe, Dominica. Martinique, St. Vincenl . Mustique, 

 Bequia (Kew Bull. no. 81, p. 244), Union (do. . Barbados, < Grenada, Tobago, Trinidad. 

 Found in the warm regions of the globe; frequent in Easl India and in the Antilles. 



The leaves and roots of ( 'rotatoria r< tusa are used in popular medicine, and in Fail her 

 India it is sometimes cultivated for its fiber. 



Local names, matraca, sonajuelas; according to Stahl cited by Cook and Collins, 

 p. L29 i, cacsabelillo grand* . 



I. Crotalaria incana I.. 



Urban, 281.) 



Annual or biennial, herbaceous, 0.66 to 1. 33 meters high; branches clothed with 

 line spreading brown -ilk > hairs; leaflets obovate or orbicular, 2.5 to I cm. long, 2 to 

 2.5cm. wide, glabrescenl above, slightly silky beneath; petiole- i.:, to 5.5 cm. long; 

 (lowers greenish yellow: calyx deeply 5-lobed, segments lanceolate, exceeded by 

 the corolla: corolla I to L.25 cm. long; legume pendulous. 2.5 to 3.5 cm. long, aboul 

 1 cm. wide. 



Near Bayamon along roads: near ( "a he/a de San Juan on declivities; near Fajardo on 

 the river bank; near .1 uncos along roads: near Guayama; near Cayey along roads; near 

 Coamo on road.-: near Adjuntas ai < 'oral Viejo, near Guanica in thickets al the lagoon; 

 near Cabo Rojo, in pastures at Miradero; near Mayaguez al the fortress and on the 

 declivities of Mount Mesa; between Mayaguez and A.fiasco along roads; mar Rincon 

 in thickets on the seashore. South Florida (Chapman), Cuba, Jamaica, Cayman 



