17 1 CONTRIBUTIONS FROM mi \\iihn4 HERBARIUM. 



Btipitate with 2, rarely 3 to 6 seeds; Legume membranous, inclosed in the calyx, inde- 

 niscent, usually with only l Beed. Herbaceous or somewhat Bhrubby plain-, dotted 

 with glands; leavea unequally pinnate rarely trifoliolate . leaflets small, usually 

 numerous, rarely :;. very rarelj only I. entire; Btipules minufc is; flowers 



white, blue, purple, rarely yellow ; Bpikee pedunculate, terminal or opposite the l< 

 dense, often capitate, rarely Loosely-flowered. 



I. Dalea domingenaia DC. 



I rluii. 



Herbaceous or somewhat Bhrubby, 0.5 to 2 meters high; stem branched al»<>\ e, li 

 I to 5 cm. Long; leaflets 3 to 5 pairs, oblong or obovate-oblong, L0 to L3 mm. Long, 5 to 

 6 mm. wide, entire, emarginate, the basecuneate, gray-silky on both Bides, with pellu- 

 cid glandular dots; petiolule about I mm. Long; spikes terminal or opposite the Leaves, 

 about 2 cm. Long; calyx with Long, beautifully plumo >us teeth, glandular; 



corolla 1 1 mm. Long; flowers purple, rose-colored and white in the same spike; standard 

 small*, cordate, with Beveral small glands near the middle; pod membranaceous. 



Between Coamoand Salinas, in meadows; near Yauco, in meadows by the river near 

 the town; near Gnanica, in thickets on the seashore near Cano Gordo. Cuba, Haiti, 

 St. John. From Texas and New Mexico to Venezuela and Colombia. 



81. TEPHROSIA Pers. 



Cracea L. Sp. PI. 2: 752. L753. 

 Tephrosia Pers. Syn. 2: 328. L807. 



Calyx-teeth or lobes subequal, or the lower larger than the rest, the 2 upper ones more 

 united; petals unguiculate; standard suborbicular, often tomentose or sericeous on the 

 outside; wings obliquely obovate or oblong, adhering a little to the keel; keel incurved, 

 obtuse or subacute; upper Btamen free to the base or middle; anthers uniform; ovary 

 sessile with many or rarely 1 or 2 ovules; style incurved or indexed, more or Less flat- 

 tened with a terminal stigma, often slightly penicillate; pod linear, or rarely ovate, 

 flattened. 2-valved, continuous or slightly septate within; seeds often with a small 

 Btrophiole. Serbs, undershrubs, more rarely Bhrubs; Leaves Lmparipinnate; Leaflets 

 numerous, rarely only 1 to 3, the veins in most species numerous, parallel and oblique 

 to the midrib; stipules setaceous or wider and then striate; flowers red. purple, or 

 white, in pairs or clusters, in terminal. Leaf-opposed, or rarely axillary racemes, the 

 lower cluster- occasionally or sometimes all in the axils of the Leaves. 



KEY TO THE SPECIES. 



Perennial with a thick rhizome; stipules subulate or lanceolate; 

 Leaves 5 to7-jugate; leaflets obtuse, with a mucro; flowers 1 to L.5 

 cm. Long, pah- purple. 1- T. cinerea. 



Stipules setaceous; Leaves 2 or 3-jugate; leaflets obtuse, emarginate; 

 flowers 7 mm. Long, blood-red. 2. T. catliartica. 



1. Tephrosia cinerea (L.) Pers." 

 (Urban, \ - 



Perennial with a thick rhizome, 33 to 45 cm. high; Leaves 5 to 7-jugate; Leaflets cune- 

 ate-oblong or linear, obtuse, mucronate, 2 to 2.5 cm. Long, 8 to 9 mm. wide; stipules 

 Lanceolate or subulate; raceme 7.5 to r> cm. long; flowers pale purple or roe* -colored, 

 L0 to L5 cm. long; calyx 5 mm. deep; Btandard 1 1 mm. Long; pod 3.5 to L.5 cm. Long, t 

 mm. wide, 5 to 9-seeded. 



a < look and < iollins, p. L28, as ( 'racca dm rea, 



