l~ s 0NTBIBUTI0N8 FBOM Till: NATIONAL HERBARIUM. 



>btuse at the apex, 17 to L8 mm. Long, 13 or 1 1 nun. wride\ rings oblong, 

 rounded at the apex, 17 mm. long, 1 nun. iride; keel petals free above, connate b< low, 

 20 mm. long; upper Btamen free, the reel connate to the middle, mibequal; ovary 

 Btipitate; legume linear, 5 to 6 mm. wide. 



Flowers and leaves appear at the same time. 



Near Mayaguez, on Mount Mesa 230 meters altitude ; near Maricao, on the do] 

 Mount Alegrillo. Indigenous. 



1 ,il name, caracoltllo Sintenis . 



2. Sabinea liorida Vahl I >' 

 Urban, 285. 



Shrub :'. to •"> meters high; leaflets 8 to L5-jugate, oblong or elliptical-oblong, 8 to l"> 

 nun. long, I !■• 8 mm. wide, Bericeous beneath, often mucronate; calyx 3 nun. long, 

 Bubentire, turbinate; wings obovate, I.:', cm. long; keel broad, semiorbicular, 17 to is 

 mm. long, 8 t" '.» nun. wide; flowers pale lilac or pale violet, axillary, fascicled, bloom- 

 ing before the leaves appear. 



Near Bayamon; near Pajardo <>n Mount Bmajagua toward Ceiba; near Yauoo on the 

 Duey River not far from Mount Rodaderp; mar Sabana Grande at tin- cataract of 

 Gstero River; mar Cabo Rojo, in thickets on the Beashore around Puerto Ileal: near 

 Quebradillas, ami near Manati, in thickets at Km Arriba Saliente. -Crabb Island 

 (West), St. Thomas, St. John, Dominica Grisebach . 



Local name. /-, tama. 



36. CRACCA Benth. 



Cracca Benth.; Oersted, Kjoeb. Vidensk. Meddel. 8. 1853, m>t L. I 

 Benthamcmtha Alef. Bonplandia 10: 264. L862. 

 Brittonamra O. Ki ntzk. Rev. Gen. 1: 164. L891. 



Calyx with Bubequal Bubulate-acuminate laciniae; petals subequal; standard orbicu- 

 lar <»r reniform with reflexed side-: wings oblong-obovate; keel wide, acute or slightly 

 beaked, Lnflexed; ovary Bessile, with numerous seeds; style slightly .-tiff. Lnflexed, 

 hoarded; Btigma eapitatej pod linear, compressed, 2-valved, Beptate, outer Burface 

 with impressed transverse line.-: Beeds almost Bquare. Perennial- with imparipinnate 

 leaves; Leaflets stipellate; flowera yellowish or whitish in axillary racemes. 



1. Cracca caribaea (Jacq.) Benth. a 

 (Urban, 285.) 



Shrub 0.5 to 2 meters high*, Bericeous-pubescent (rarely glabrescent i; Leaflets 7 to 

 9-jugate, lanceolate-oblong, 1.6 to 2 cm. long, mucronate; racemes peduncled, few- 

 flowered; flowers 1 to L.2 cm. Long, white, standard rose-white or sometimes rose 

 colored: calyx lobes twice as long as the tube, the lowest Longer and exceeding half 

 the keel. 



• I labeza de San Juan, in shady ravines toward the Bea; near Pajardo in coast dis- 

 trict.-: nearCoamo, in meadows between Serillos and Salinas, in the valley of I'd Fuerte 

 River in rooky places, and in woods near Mount San Qdefonso; near Pefiuelas along 

 road-: near Guanica, in thickets on the lagoons and in forests at Mount Bnsenada. 

 Hani. St. Thomas, St. Croix, St. Martin (Stockholm Berbarium), St. Bartholomew 

 i Euphrasen . Antigua (Grisebach i, Guadeloupe, Desirade (Grisebach i, Dominica (do.), 

 Mart in i< | no. St. lamia (Grisebach I, St. Vincent, Bequia. Central America, Venezuela, 

 Ecuador. 



>k and Collins, p. L28, as Cracca anil<>i<l< t. 



