L98 CONTRIBUTIONS PROM THE NATIONAL HERBARIUM. 



1 to 2 cm. long, blunt, Bubeeasile, glabrous or th<- lower ride slightly silky; racemes 

 axillary or terminal, dense, stalked. 5 to 7.5 cm long, the flowering pari 2.5cm long; 

 calyx truncate, thinly silky, the teeth \ ery Bhorl ; corolla 9 nun I rig, reddish 

 win to <»r purple; pod Bessile, 2 5 to 3 5 cm. long, 1.2 cm. broad, oblong, rostrate, sub- 

 coriaceous, flat, 2-valved, with cellular partitions between the seeds, glabrous when 

 mature; seeds I or 5, u r I • > 1 »'-<•. Bhining, scarlet, vritha black spot at the bas< 



Near Bayamon in sandy soil; near Salinas de Cabo Rojo; near Mayaguez, on hedges 

 at Guanajibo. Bahama, Cuba, Jamaica, Haiti, St. Thomas Bggere . St. Cron 

 .1 'lui Eggere), St Bartholomew (Euphrase , n . Vntigua (Grisebach), Guadeloupe, 

 Dominica, Martinique, St. Vincent, Barbados Maycock), Tobago, Trinidad. Widely 

 distributed through the Tropics, but often planted. 



Tin- brilliant red seeds with a black spot at the hilum are Btrung by the women o! 

 Hindustan and are used instead of beads for ornaments for the neck and also for roes 

 hence the name "pater noster herb." The Beeds arc extremely poisonous when taken 

 in large quantities, and in India they have played an important role in many a crime. 



Local names, peronia, peronilas. 



52. CLITORIA I. 

 Clitoria L. Sp. PI. 2: 753. L753. 



< !alyx tubular, t he '2 upper lobes slightly connate, i lm lowest narrow; standard large, 

 erect . open, narrowed at the base without auricles, wings short it. spreading, adhering 



to the keel in the middle; keel shorter, incurved, acute; upper stamens fr< r more or 



less united with the others; anthers uniform; ovary Btipitate, with several ovules; 

 Style elongated, incurved, more or less dilated upward and hoarded longit iid i nail y on 

 the inner side: pod linear, flattened, the upper or both sutures thickened, the sides 

 Sat or convex, occasionally bearings raised longitudinal rib, dehiscent; Beeds globose 

 or flattened. Herbs or shrubs, short and erect or with long twining branches; leaves 

 pinnate, with 3 or several leaflets or occasionally only I: stipules persistent, striate; 

 flowers often large, purple, blue, white, or red. often t wo-colored, solitary or clustered 

 in the axils or in pairs crowded in short racemes; bracts stipule-like, persistent, the 

 lower ones in pairs, the upper united into one. 



This genus is readily distinguished by its lame tubular calyx. 



KKV to THE SPECIES. 



Leaflets 2 or 3- jugate (rarely I or 5), ovate, blunt or oval; peduncle 

 short, l-flowered; bracteoles suborbicular, about one-fourth as 

 large as the calyx: calyx lobes lanceolate, acuminate: legume 

 linear, pubescent. Section Ternatea Benth.) 1. C. ternateq. 



Leaflets only 3. (Section Neurocarpi m Benth.) 



Stem twining; leaflets acute. -• C. rubiginoM. 



Rhizome woody: stem erect, nearly simple, ascending; leaf- 

 Lete obtuse, retuse, or emarginate. 3. C. laurifolia. 



I. Clitoria ternatea L. 

 [Trban, 299.) 



Herbaceous, Buffrutescent; stem twining; leaflets 2 to 3 cm. long, about 1.5 cm. 

 wide: peduncle 2 to 1 mm. long; flowers large, resupinate, blue and white; calyx 1.5 

 cm. deep; standard 5 cm. long; pod 6 to 13 cm. long, I cm. wide. 



Cultivated and seeininudy wild near Uayamon: near Pajardo in Bromelia 

 toward the sea; near Mayaguez, toward Guanajibo. Bahama, Cuba, Jamaica, Ham. 

 St. Thomas, St. Croix, St. John Bggere . St. Bartholomew Stockholm Herbarium), 



