PEBKINS THE LEGUMINOSAE OF PORTO RICO. L89 



I'l. Desmodium axillare sintenisii Urb. 

 Urban, - 



Pubescence of the Btem very short; leaflets ovate, long-acuminate; flowers white: 

 pod articulations 9 to LO nun. long, 6.5 to 7 nun. wide. 



Sierra de Luquillo, halfway to the top of Mounl Jimenez; Sierra de Yabucoa, in the 

 primeval forests of Mounl Cerro Gordo and Mounl Sombrero. Haiti. 



5. Desmodium supinum (Sw.) I M . 

 Urban, 290. 



A diffuse iindershrub no to 90 cm. high, branches finely gray-pubescenl upward; 

 Btipules connate to the middle, a1 length subdistinct, lanceolate, Bcarious; leaflets :'.. 

 central one oblong or obovate, 7.5 to l<» cm. long, generally under half a- broad, its 

 petiolule short, its stipellae minute; lateral leaflets smaller and more rounded at the 

 3ubcoriaceous, the upper Burface glabrous, tin- lower thinly and finely pubescenl ; 

 calyx 2.2 nun. deep, tin- teeth lanceolate, reaching halfway down; corolla red, becom- 

 ing blue or pah- purple, 6.5 to s ."> nun. deep; pod 2.5 cm. long, A nun. wide, with 5 to 

 s articulations, which are considerably longer than broad. 



Near Bayamon in grassy places: mar Fajardo along roads and in tin- river valley 

 toward the mountains; near Juncos along roads; near Maunabo a1 Punta Tuna: near 

 Cayey at Quebrada Arriba in thickets; near Cabo Elojo along roads around Puerto 

 Real; near Mayaguez. Bahama, Cuba, Jamaica. Cayman (Hitchcock . Eaiti, St. 

 Thomas, St. Croix, St. John, St. Martin (Stockholm Herbarium), St. Bartholomew 

 do. . St. Kitt-. Antigua, Guadeloupe, Dominica, Martinique, St. Vincent, Bequia 

 (Kew Bull. ii". 81, p. i'l-"). Barbados, Grenada, Tobago, Trinidad (Grisebach), 

 Margarita. 



A common tropical American specie-, occurring also in Africa and the Mauritius. 



Loral nann-. zarzabacoa. 



5a. Desmodium supinum angustifolium Griseb.) Orb. 

 i Urban, 291.) 



Plant I t<. L.5 meters high; flowers conspicuous, pale blood-red or pale purple. 



Between Aibonitoand Coamo, mar Algarrobo, in thickets; near Coamo, in the valley 

 of El Tendal River; near Etincon, on shady mountains at Barrio del Pueblo. -Cuba, 

 Haiti. Antigua Grisebach . 



6. Desmodium albiflorum Salzm. 

 Urban, 292. 



Stem diffuse, L5 to 30 cm. high; leaves sometimes widely, sometimes narrowly ovate, 

 aboul '_'.-") mm. long, obtuse or rarely somewhal acute, membranous; Btipules cordate, 

 acuminate, free or at tin- hack connate; flowers white; calyx about 2.2 nun. deep, 

 petals 6.5 mm. long; pod subsessile, its articulation- indefinite in number, usually •"> 

 or 6, these when mature 6.5 nun. long, 1.1 nun. wide. 



Near ( layey, in coffee plantations al Pedro Avila; near < loamo, in coffee plantations 

 at Farrajones. Mexico, Central America. Ecuador, and Brazil Bentham, Eemsley . 



7. Desmodium wydlerianum Urb. 

 Urban, 292. 



Perennial '.' . procumbenl below, rooting at the nodes, ascending above, shortly 

 pubescent ; leaflets triangular-ovate or rhomboid, acuminate, Bubtruncate at th< 



