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Near Bayamon in thickets; near Coamo, in the valley of El Fuerte River; near 

 Pepino; on declivitiea al Eneas; mar Maricao in thickets on the river bank; near 

 Cabo Rojo in copses; near Mayaguez; near Aflasco, in thickets al Calvache; near 

 Rincon in coasl districts; near Aguadilla, al Barrio Victoria. Cuba, Jamaica, Haiti, 

 Antigua (Grisebach), Guadeloupe, Martininque, St. Vincent, Trinidad. Widely 

 distributed in tropical America. 



Local name, fior de pito. 



:\. Centrosema virg-inianum (L.) Benth. " 

 (Urban, 300.) 



Si. mi is Blender, firm, herbaceous, widely climbing; peduncle axillary, I . sometimes 

 4-flowered; calyx 9 to L2 mm. deep; standard 2.5 cm. in diameter; flowers blue or 

 while becoming blue; pod 7.5 to 10 cm. long, 3.3 to l.l nun. broad, nearly Btraight. 



Near Bayamon in thickets and grassy places, near Yabucoa, on the declivities of 

 Mount Canto de Gallo; near Cayey, at Morillos Brook; near Guanica, in meadows al 

 Montalba and between La Boca and Barinas; near Salinas de Cabo Rojo on the edge 

 of the woods; near Mayaguez, on the declivities of Mount Mesa; near [Jtuado, in 

 thickets at Cayuco.- Bermuda l Hemsley), Bahama, Cuba, Jamaica, Haiti, St. Thomas, 

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

 (do.), St. Kit ts, Antigua (Grisebach), Guadeloupe, Dominical Grisebach i, Martinique, 

 St. Vincent, Bequia I KLew Bull. No. 81, p. 246), Mustique, Canouan (do.), St. Lucia 

 (Grisebach), Barbados. Grenada, Tobago, Margarita. A common tropical American 

 species, extending north <<» Maryland. Also in western tropica] Africa. 



Centrosema virginianum resembles ( '. pubescens closely, bul has a much narrowerpod. 



Local name, conchita Virginia (Cook and Collins). 



:Ja. Centrosema virginianum angustifolium (DC.) Griseb. 



(Urban, 301.) 



Leaflets linear, or the inferior oblong. 



Near Mayaguez, on Mounl Mesa. -Bahama, Cuba, Jamaica, Haiti, St. Martin (figure 

 in Stockholm Herbarium), Antigua (Grisebach), Martinique: 



54. TERAMNUS P. Br. 



Teramnus P. Br. Hist. Jam. 290. L756. 



Calyx campanulate, the two upper teeth connate or separate, the others Bubequal; 

 standard obovate, narrowed at the base, exappendiculate; wings narrow, adhering to 

 the keel; heel shorter than the wings, almost straight, obtuse; si a mens all connate, the 

 5 alternate anthers small, abortive; ovary sessile, mull iovulate; style short . thick, 

 beardless; stigma capitate; pod linear, 2-valved, septate between the seeds, rostrate. — 

 Slender twining herbs; leaves pinnate; leaflets:'.; stipules small: flowers minute, in 

 racemes or fascicles in the axils or in pairs or fascicles along the rachis; bracts small; 

 bracteoles linear or lanceolate, striate. 



I. Teramnus uncinatus I L.) Sw. 

 (Urban, 301. 



Twining Buffrutescenl slender herbs; leaves pinnately 3-foliolate; pel ioles 1 to 6 cm. 

 long; lea Hi 'ts oblong-lanceolate, 5.5 to 8 cm. Long, 2.25 to 3 cm. wide, pubescent above, 

 sericeous beneath; flowers in long racemes, small, white or rose-colored, later pale 



" Cook and Collins, p. 94, as Brmdburya virginiana. 



