L92 CONTRIBUTIONS PROM MM NATIONAL HERBARIUM. 



upper ones from oval-oblong to Lanceolate-linear, and often 2.5 cm. Long or more, all 

 obtuse; calyx about L.4 mm. long, the lobes very narrow, ending in a Bubulate almost 

 lui i r-1 1 k« • point, the tw> upper onee Lees united than in moel Bpeciee; petals pale 

 purple, becoming blue, scarcely exceeding the calyx; j">d often L.8 cm. long or 

 rather more, obscurely wrinkled, the separation of * 1 1 « - articulations marked l>\ trans- 

 raised lines, without any or rarely with a slight contraction, 

 lingly spontaneous oear Bayamon in coast districta at Palo Seco; near Pajardo 

 in rocky localitiee toward Ceiba; near Pefiuelas, in rocky districta at Tallaboa Alia. 

 near Cabo Rojo, in grassy placee ;it the base of Mount Buenavista. Jamaica, Haiti, 

 St. Thomas, St. Croix, St. John, St. Kitta Grisebach . St. Martin (Stockholm Herba- 

 rium . St. Bartholomew do. . Antigua (Grisebach), Guadeloupe, Martiniqu 

 Vincent, Bequia K<\\ Bull. no. 81, p. 246 . Barbados, Grenada, Tobago, Trinidad. 

 A common weed in the tropica of the < >1<1 World and introduced into America. 

 Local name, yerba <h contrabando. 



45. DALBERGIA I. I 



Dalbergia L. i. Suppl. 52, 316. 17*1. 



Calyx with i h< • two upper teeth broader and the Lowest rather Longer than the 

 others; standard broadly ovate or orbicular; wings oblong; keel slightly incurved, 

 obtuse, its petals connate on the back at the apex; stamens all connate in a sheath 

 -lit above, or the upper one free or absenl . or the sheath also slit below or the Lowest 

 sometimes also free; anthers small, erect, the cells dehiscing by a small apical slit; 

 "vary Btalked, biovulate; style almost straight ; Btigma small, terminal: pod orbicular 

 or broadly oblong, flat or corky, indehiscent, L-seeded, Bubemarginate at the upper 

 Buture. Loosely branched or sarmentose shrubs; leaves imparipinnate; Leaflets usu- 

 ally alternate, many or rarely reduced to 1: flowers in small panicles in the axils of 

 the Leaves. 



Kl V TO THE SPBCIES. 



Leaflets solitary, pale and tomentose beneath, rarely glabres- 



cent, ovate, obtuse, acuminate: stamens LO; pod orbicular, 



l'.") to 3 cm. in diameter, thick, subligneous. 1. IK hecastophyllum. 



Leaflets :'. t<> •">. both Bides glabrous, or with a few scattered 



hairs beneath, ovate, acuminate: stamens <); pod roundish, 



oblong, blunt at loth ends. 2.5 t<> :\ cm. Long, 2 cm. wide, 



flat, shining, not much thickened, subligneous. '1. I>. monetaria. 



J. Dalbergia hecastophyllum i L.) Taub. 

 Urban, 294. 1 



Shrub 2 to 3 meters high or tree 6 to 8 meters high, with firm woody branches; Leaves 

 unifoliolate, rarely bifoliolate; leaflets 7 to It) cm. Long, 1.5 to 5 cm. wide: petiole 1 

 cm. Long; (lowers in small cymose panicles, 2.5 to 5 cm. long, axillary, calyx cam- 

 panulate, 5 mm. deep; enroll a white, more than twice as long as the calj \. 



Near San Juan, in thicker- near the sea at < Sangrejos; near Yabucoa in coast districts; 

 near I'once. in Littoral thickets at Pefion; in coast districts near Mayaguez at Algar- 

 robo; near Rincon; near Quebradillas. South Florida (variety j>sil<>c<ih/r Radlk.), 

 Cuba, Jamaica, Cayman (Hitchcock), Haiti. St. Thomas. St. Croix Grisebach, 

 i . St. .John. Antigua (Grisebach), Guadeloupe, Dominica (Grisebach . Marti- 



nique, St. Vincent. Bequia, Barabdos, Grenada, Tobago, Trinidad (Grisebach). 

 Tropical America, especially mar the sea. from south Brazil to Florida and Central 

 America; also in. wot tropical Africa. 



