206 CONTRIBUTIONS FROM THE NATIONAL HERBARIUM. 



Near Bayamon in foreste on the bank of the river; Sierra de Naguabo, near Mints 

 deCobre at Etio Blanco; near Yabucoa, in the primeval forest on Mount Sombrero 

 at La Pandura; between Adjuntas and Ponce, in shady localities by the river at i 

 Viejo. Cuba, Jamaica (Grisebach), Haiti. St. Kin.-. Guadeloupe, Martinique, 

 Si Vincent . Panama, Brazil. 



Local names, mato, tortt 



58. CALOPOGONIUM I »■ 



Calopogoniujn Dbsv. Aim. 8c. Nat. 9: 423. L826. 

 Stmolobium Bknth. Ann. Wien. Mus. 2: L25. \- 

 Oyanostremma Benth.; Book. A Abn. Bot. Beech. 415. L841. 



( 'alyx campanulate or short tubuliform, the 2 upper teeth tree or more or less connate; 

 standard obovate, the base with inflexed auricles; wings narrow, adhering to the keel; 

 keel obtuse, usually shorter than the wingB; upper stamen free; ovary sessile, multi- 

 ovulate; style Blender; Btigma terminal, capitate; pod linear, compressed or at last 

 convex, 2-valved, septate; seeds orbicular, somewhat flat. Bigh-climbing herbs <»r 

 undershrubs; Leaves pinnate; leaflets 3, Btipellate; flowers small or moderately Large, 

 oarrow, blue or violet, Bubsessile, fascicled, forming an elongated raceme; bra 

 bracteoles small, caducous. 



1. Calopogonium orthocarpum lib. 

 (Urban, 304.) 



A twining plant with Bubligneous stem: branches, petioles, and peduncles densely 

 rusty-pilose; Btipules oblong-lanceolate or lanceolate, acuminate: terminal leaflet 

 ovate-rhomboid or Bhort-ovate, acute: leaflets 3.5 to LO cm. lorn:. :\ to 8 cm. wide, both 

 sides with appressed hairs: inflorescence racemose, sometimes elongated, sometimes 

 very short, up to L5 cm. long; calyx 6 to 8 mm. deep, campanulate, the teeth longer 

 than the tube, Lanceolate, with subulate Betaceous apex; corolla blue; standard ol><>- 

 vate, s mm. long; stamens !»; pod linear, erect or suberect . 2.5 to :;..") cm. long, 1 mm. 

 wide, densely rusty-pubescent, ■"> to 8-seeded; seeds shortly and Bubobliquely rectan- 

 gular, convex, pale brown. 



Near Bayamon in the fields at Guinabo; near Caguas; near Yauco in the thicket 

 between the River Dueyand Mount Rodadero; near Rincon, about Hacienda Dioplo; 

 near Cabo Rojo, in the plains at Joyuda; near Mayaguez. Haiti. 



Local name, jicama. 



59. GALACTIA P. Br. 



Qalactia P. Bb. Hist. Jam. 298. L756. 

 Odonia Bebtol. Lucubr. Serb. 35. L822. 

 Sweetia DC. Prod. 2: 381. L825. 



('alyx campanulate, the segments long-acuminate, the lowest usually elongate, the 



lateral one- Bmaller than the upper one and the lower one: standard ovate or orbicular, 

 Bubappendiculate or on the al^^ at the base inflexed ; wings long and narrow. obo\ ate, 

 adhering -to the keel ; keel equaling or exceeding the vrings; upper stamen free or con- 

 nate with the others at the middle: anthers uniform: ovary sessile or Bubstipitate, 

 with uumerous ovules; style filiform, with small terminal Btigma; pod linear, straight 

 or incurved. Hat. very rarely convex on both sides. 2-valved, pulpy or thinly septate 

 between the seeds. Prostrate or climbing herbs or erect shrubs; Leaves pinnate; leaf- 

 I rarely 1. 5, or 7. Btipellate; bracts -mall. Betaceous, deciduous; flowers small 

 or moderately large, rarely Large, red. violet or white, in axillary racemes clustered 



