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along th ■ i -on i him 11 peduncle in pairs or in fascicles, the lower ones sometimes » ilitary, 

 seldom without petals; bracts -mall . setaceous, bracteoles very -mall. 



Prof< jboi [Jrban in Symbolae A.ntillanae a has given a key to all thespecii i 

 tia fou A in the West [ndiee and has Bettled many difficull points. Of this genus only 

 variet ' * of two differenl species are found in Porto Rico. 



KE"J PO 1 II l. SPEI II s. 



Leaflets 2 to 4 cm. long; petals 12 to 15 mm. long; pod 5 to 5.5 mm. wide. I. G. dubia. 

 Leaflets 2.5 to 6 cm. long; pod 6 to 9 mm. wide. 2. G. striata. 



1. Galactia dubia DC. 



Urban, 304. 



A twining plant, woody below, herbaceous above, clothed densely or thinly with 

 short or very Bhorl reflexed and appressed hairs; stipules lanceolate or narrowly lanceo- 

 late, often Bubulate-acuminate, 2 to 3 mm. long; petiole 1 to 1 cm. long; leaflets 3, 

 the terminal one oval, elliptical, or obovate, rounded al the apex, more or less emar- 

 ginate and shortly apiculate, very obtuse or rotundate al the base, 2 to 1 cm. 1 ■ • t i •_-■ . 1 .5 

 to 2 cm. wide, the lateral ones one-third or one-half as long as the terminal one, oval 

 or shortly oval, all chartaceous or chart aeeous-coriaceous, glabrous above, -hortly and 

 appressedly pilose beneath; inflorescence I to 5 cm. long, few-flowered toward the 

 top or at the apex; peduncle 0.5 to I cm. long, 0.4 to 0.5 mm. thick; pedicel 3 to ! 

 nun. long; calyx subglabrous or very laxly and appressedly pilose, 7 to 8 mm. long; 

 corolla rose-colored ex Duchassaing i or purple exDuss ; standard obovate or orbicular- 

 obovate, L2 to L5mm. long, 9 to 1<> mm. wide, claw 1 to L.5 mm. long; wings a little 

 shorter or narrower than the keel. r_> to 1 1 mm. long, 4 mm. wide; upper stamen free; 

 anthers oblong; ovary Bubsessile, L2 to 14-ovulate; pod 4 to 5 cm. long, 5 to 5.5 mm. 

 wide, suberect or the upper part more or less incurved, with very short apj 

 hair-; Beeds narrow, ovate-reniform, 3.5 to 5 mm. long, 2 to 3.5 mm. wide, brownish- 

 black, the hilnin at or above the middle. 



la. Galactia dubia ehrenberg-ii Yrh. 

 (Urban, 304.) 



Stem, calyx, and pod shortly patent-pubescent; leaflets on the upper surface very 

 shortly pilose, on the lower densely pubescent; terminal leaflets obovate or orbicular- 

 obovate, emarginate, the lateral ones -hortly oval or subrotundate; calyx teeth often 

 small: standard 1 1 to 13 mm. long; Beeds marmorate, the hilnin below the apex; flowers 

 (Sintenis) pale rose-colored or Stahl the standard yellow, the wings and keel a 

 brighl violet or whitish. 



Near Cabeza de San Juan: near Catano; near Bayamon in the hedges; tear » abo 

 Rojo, in littoral thicket- at Joyuda; near Rincon, in the mountains a1 Barrio Punt a. — 

 St. Thomas. 



lb. Galactia dubia g-uanicensis lTrb. 



(Urban, 304. 



Kntin stem woody, calyx and pod appressed-pubescent; flowers white- pod 3 to 

 4 cm. long. The real as in ehreribi 



Near Guanica in thickets on Mounl El Maniel. 



"2: 318. 1900. 

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