L72 >NTRIBUTION8 FBOM Tin: NATIONAL BERBABIUM. 



Eitchcock . Hani. St. Thomas, St. Ci - Martin Stockholm Herbariiu 

 Bartholomew (Euphrasen . Antigua Grisebach , Guadeloupe, Domin bach . 



Martinique, St. Vincent, Bequia, Mustique Kew Bull. do. 81, p. l'ii . Barbados, 

 Grenada, I rrinidad, Margarita. Cosmopolitan in the warm regions of ih<- 



world, but perhaps an introduction in th<- ( >ld World. 

 Dame, cascabt lillo 



Crotalaria lotifolia I.. 

 Urban, 281. 



Shrubby, diffuse, 0.5 to 2 meters high; leaves 5 to 7 cm. Long, sericeous on both - 

 peduncle 5 mm. Long; flowers pale yellow; vexillum with red curving lines on the 

 inner side at the base; calyx deeply 5-parted, shortly exceeded by the corolla, Lobes 

 lanceolate; corolla about L.2S cm. long; legume spathulate-oblong, puberulous, 2 cm. 

 long, 6 mm. w i < 1 « . 



N»-ar Pajardo in shady places; aearCoamo, in the woods of Mount Ildefonso and in 

 thickets on the Juey River toward Salinas; Dear Guanica, in shady meadows at Mont- 

 alba and in thickets on the Beashore; Dear Salinas de t Jabo Rojo at Punta d<- Aguila. 

 Cuba, Jamaica, Haiti, St. Thomas, St. Croix St. John; the varieties 



folia and grandifiora in Martinique, Barbados, and tropical west Africa. A well- 

 known very distinct West Indian Bpecies. 



Local oame, cascabelill I ook and Collinc 



29. INDIGOFERA L. 



Indigofi a I.. Sp. PI. 2: 751. L753. 



\tfionotU8 Benth. in H<».k. Niger Id. 293. LS 

 Sphaeridiophorum Desv. Journ. Bot. 3: 125. ///. '»'. L814. 

 B istonia Dbsv. Ann. Sc. Nat. 9: 111.182 



Calyx small, oblique, campanulate or tubular, teeth equal or the lowest longest; 

 standard obovate, oblong, or Buborbicular, Bessile or shortly unguiculate; wings more 

 or Less oblong, adhering a little to the keel; keel straight or slightly curved, obtuse, or 

 acuminate, gibbous or spurred on both sides: upper stamen in-*' from the base, the 

 others connate; anthers uniform with glandular, apiculate or penicillate-pilose con- 

 Dective; ovary sessile or nearly so, with several or rarely 1 or2ovules; style incurved, 

 short, filiform, usually somewhat curved; stigma terminal, capitate or penicillate- 

 pilose; i >< »< 1- oblong, linear or rarely globular, terete or rarely flattened, straight or 

 incurved, 2-valved, divided transversely between tin- seeds by cellular tissue 

 globular, or truncate at each end, or flattened. Herbs, undershrube, or shrubs with 

 adpressed Bilky hairs fixed by tin- middle, and sometimes mixed with l<.os<- hair- or 

 tommentum; leaves unequally pinnate more rarely digitate, 3-foliolate or reduced t<» 1 

 leaflet, sometimes simple; leaflets entire; stipules usually small. Betaceous, somewhat 

 adnate t" the petiole; flowers usually rose-red <»r purplish red, axillary, rarely Bessile, 

 in racemes "r -j >i k« •-. ih<->«- sometimes united into panicles. 



KKY TO TltK SPECIES. 



Pod reflexed, Bickle-shaped, 6 to8-seeded. 1. /■ suffruticota. 



Pod straight, shorter than in /. tuffrutioosa, ."» or 1-seeded. 2. /. guatimaleruu. 



1. Indig-ofera suffruticosa Mill. 

 Urban, 28 



A copiously branched shrub 1 t<» 1.5 meters hiL r h: branches straight, woody, deeply 

 silicate, thinly Bilvery; stipules small. Betaceous; petiole under 2.5 em. long, firm. 



erect >patent; leaves 5 to 10 em. long, leallets (j to S-jugate, oblong or obovate. L' to 2.5 



