Cracca domingensis

Cracca domingensis (Wilid) Rydberg
Calcga domingensis Willd. Sp. PI. 3: 1249. 1803. Tephrosia domingensis Pers. Syn. PI. 2: 330. 1807.
A perennial, with woody caudex; stems ascending or decumbent, branched, glabrous or nearly so, 3-6 dm. high; leaves 5-10 cm. long; stipules subulate, 7-10 mm. long; petiole ! cm. long or less, as well as the rachis glabrous; leaflets 11-19, linear-oblanceolate, obtuse or acutish and mucronate at the apex, acute at the base, 1-3 cm. long, 3-6 mm. wide, glabrous on both sides, or with scattered hairs beneath; racemes opposite the leaves, 10-15 cm. long; bracts subulate, 4-7 mm. long; calyx with a few rathei loose hairs, the tube 2 mm. long, the lobes subulate, 4 mm. long; corolla nearly 1 cm. long, rose-purple; pod straight, 4-5 cm. long, 4 mm. wide, very sparingly strigose or nearly glabrous, S-llseeded. Closely related to the next species.
Type locality: Santo Domingo.
DisTRinL'TiON: Cuba and Santo Domingo.