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34. CORYNELLA DC. 



Carynella DC. Ann. Sc. Nat. 4: 33. L825. 

 Carynitis Spreng. Syst. 4: Cur. Post. 263. L827. 

 ToxotropisT} rcz. Bull. Soc. Nat. Mosc. 19-': 506. L846. 



Calyx teeth very shorl or awl-shaped and elongated, the two upper onee connate; 

 standard suborbicular, clawed, reflexed; winge oblong-oblique; keel slightly incurved, 

 longer than the \\ ings and standard; upper stamen free; anthere uniform, with glandu- 

 lar, often colored connective; ovarj stipitate, multiovulate; style upwards incrassat< 

 stigma Bmall, Blightly capitate; pod oblong, lanceolate, compressed, 2-valved. 

 Shrubs; Leaves paripinnate or Lmparipinnate; leaflets Btipellate; Btipules stiff, some- 

 times spinous; flowers purple, solitary or fascicled at the older uodes of the branches; 

 bracts small: bracteoles wanting. 



I . Corynella paucifolia DC. 

 Urban, 284. 



Shrul) 0.5 i" 2 meters high; leaflets 3 to 5-jugate, oblong or obovate-oblong, I to 2 

 cm. long, 0.5 to I cm. broad, coriaceous, rounded at the apex, often mucronate, cuneate 

 at the base, glabrous: flowers solitary or fascicled along the rachis, blue Eggers . or 

 blue becoming white, keel violet (Sintenis . 



Near Yauco on the sides of Mount Duey; near San German, on a declivity at Lajas 

 Arriba. Haiti. 



'I'll.' pretty blue flowers of this shrub appear before the leaves. 



Local name, retama. 



35. SABINE A DC. 



SaUnea DC. Ann. Sc. Nat. 4: 92. L825. 



Calyx membranous, broadly campanulate, truncate, almost entire or shortly den- 

 tate; standard wide, suborbicular. erect or reflexed; wings oblong-falcate; keel Lnflexed, 

 obtuse, as long as or somewhat longer than the wings; upper stamen free, the resl 

 equally long, or •"> longer and farther connate; anthers uniform; ovary stipitate. multi- 

 ovulate; style filiform, much inflexed, glabrous; stigma small, terminal: pod linear. 

 compressed, continuous within, 2-valved, the valves at length spirally curved; Beeds 

 rather flat, ovoid or reniform. — Trees or shrubs; leaves paripinnate; common petiole 

 terminating in a point; 1 eat lets caducous; stipules usually setaceous, caducous; flowers 

 purple, solitary or fascicled, on the older nodes of the branches: bracts small, brac- 

 teoles wanting. 



KEY TO TIM. SPE( IKS. 



Keel oblong; stamens subequal; style suberect. 1. S. punicea. 



Keel obliquely obovate; 5 posterior stamens one-half as long a- the 

 ."> anterior al] fertile : style and the upper pari of the ovary falcate- 

 incurved, l'. s. florida. 

 1. Sabinea punicea lib. 



Urban, 



Probably shrubby; Btipules subulate, :i to :> nun. long; leaflets l<> to 20, obova 

 sometimes oval, rounded or subrotundate Bubapiculate at the apex, 9 t" 15 some- 

 times even 26) mm. long, 5 i" 9 sometimes even 16 mm. wide, glabrous beneath or 

 thinly piloseon the middle nerve, lateral nerves on each side I or 5, densely reticulate; 

 flowers in the axils of the leaves, many, on a shortened branch, pedicels 0.7 to 1.5 cm. 

 long; calyx 5 mm. long, glabrous, minutely dentate; standard Bubtriangular-orbicular, 



