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LEGUMINOSiE. CXVI. Glottidium. CXVII. Piscidia. CXVIIL Daubentonia. CXIX. Corynella. 



Lix. SYST. DiadSlphiay Decdndria. Calyx 5-toothed, some- 

 what bilabiate, lower teeth rather the longest, Vexillura reni- 

 form, very short, and broad. Stamens diadelphous. Legumes 

 jon long stipes, compressed, flat, 2-valved, 2-seeded, 1 -celled ; 

 the valves separating into 2 membranes when mature, outer 

 membrane coriaceous, inner one membranous and covering the 



—Annual smooth 



Red Piscidia or Jamaica Dog-wood. Fl. May, June. Clt. 



1690. Tree 30 feet. 



993.) 



2 P. Carthagene'nsis (Jacq. amer. 210. Lin. spec 

 leaflets obovate ; stipe of legume hardly longer than the calyx; 



^2 



Native of Jamaica, Guadaloupe,and 



seeds. Seeds compressed, transversely oblong.— 



herbs, having the primordial leaves ovate and simple, and the 



rest abruptly-pinnate, of many-pairs of leaflets. Racemes axil- 



Jacq. icon. rar. 1. 



Sesb'dnia 



lary, pedunculate. Flowers few, loose, yellow. 



1 G. Florida^num (D. C. prod. 2. p. 266.) 

 of Florida and Carolina. Robxnia vesicaria 

 t. 148. Phaca Floriduna, Willd. spec. 3. p. 1252. 

 platycarpa, Michx. Sesb^nia disperma, Pursh. fl.amer. sept. 2. 

 p. 485. Dalbergia polyphylla, Poir. suppl. 2. p. 446. Pedun- 

 cles 4-5-flowcred. 



Florida Glottidium. Fl. July, Aug. Clt. 1816. PL 5 to 7 ft. 



wings continuous. 



Carthagena, on the mountains. Piscidia erythrina of Ait. hort. 

 kew, according to a specimen in the herbarium of L. Heritier, 

 which has the underside of the leaves villous, and the young 

 leaves very villous, and the lower leaflets ovate, but the terminal 

 one is obovate. — -Plum. ed. Burm. t. 133, f. 2. Lam. ill. t. 605. 

 0. F. Native f. B and C. Flowers difty-white, rising after the leaves. Lunan, 



hort. jam. 1. p. 270. 



Carthagena Piscidia. Fl 



Cult. Sandy loam sliits these trees best, and cuttings may be 

 )ted in sand under a hand-glass in heat. 



. * 



CXVIII. DAUBEl^TO^NIA fin honour of M. Daubenton, 



CulL The seeds of this plant require to be sown in a pot a celebrated naturalist). D. C, legum. mem.vi. prod. 2.p. 267» 



filled with peat and sand, and placed in a hot-bed, and when the 

 plants have grown 2 or 3 inches In'gh, they should be planted 

 into separate pots in the same kind of soil, and shifted into truncate, with 5 small teeth. 



^.._.,, Willd. 



Lin. SYST. Diadelpkia, Decandria. Calyx campanulate, rather 



larger pots as they grow. 



Corolla papilionaceous 



Stamens diadelphous 



CXVII. PISCFDIA (from pisas^ a fish, and ccedo, to kill or 



destroy ; the leaves, bark, and twigs bruised are thrown into 



ponds or rivulets for the purpose of intoxicating fish, by which 



means they are easily taken). Lin. gen. 856. D. C. prod. 2. p. 



267. — Piscipula, Loefl. itin. 275. — Ichthyomethia, P. Browne, 

 jam. 276. 



LiN, SYST. MonadSlphia, Decdndna. Calyx campanulate, 5- 



cleft. Corolla papilionaceous. Keel obtuse. Stamens mona- 



delphous, the tenth one free from the rest at the base. Style 



filiform. 



glabrous. Legume pedicellate, linear, furnished with 

 4 membranous wings ; the seeds separated by spongy substance. 



lateral hylum. Embryo Piscidia punicea, Cav. icon. 4. t. 316. 



very blunt. Vexillum roundish, stipitate. 

 having the free filament, as well as the staminiferous sheath, as 

 if they were jointed at the base. Style filiform, glabrous. Le. 

 gume on a long pedicel, oblong, compressed, coriaceous, orna- 

 mented with 4 wings rising near the margins of the sutures, and 

 furnished with spongy substance between the seeds. Seeds ovate. 

 — Mexican shrubs, with oblong stipulas, abruptly-pinnate leaves, 

 and simple racemes of flowers. This genus is nearly allied to 

 Piscidia, but the stamens are diadelphous, and the leaves are 

 abruptly, not impari-pinnate. Perhaps this genus is allied to 



Coursetia, 



I D. PUNi'cEA (D. C. prod. 2. p. 267.) leaves with 8-10 pairs 

 of oblong obtuse leaflets ; racemes almost 3-times shorter than 



Flowers scarlet. 



Seeds ovate, compressed, having a 



curved, with elliptic-oblong thickish cotyledons, and a hooked 

 radicle. — West Indian trees, with broad impari -pinnate leaves, 

 and terminal panicles of white and blood-coloured flowers mixed. 

 1 P. ERYTHRf NA (Lin. spec. 993. Jacq. amer. 206.) leaflets 



legume standing on a stipe, which is thrice the length of 

 the calyx; wings interrupted. Tj . S. " 



the leaves, h , S. 



Native of New Spain. 



■iEsc 



>i 



Ort. dec. p. 28. 



^car/e^-flowered Daubentonia. 



ovate 



and Jamaica on the mountains, where it is called Dog-wood by ^schy 



FL July, Aug. Clt. 1830. 



Shrub 2 to 3 feet. 



2 D. LoNGiFOLiA (D. C. prod. 2. p. 267.) leaves having Il- 

 ls pairs of lanceolate acute leaflets ; racemes a little shorter than 

 Native of New Spain the leaves. T2 • S. Native of New Spain. Flowers yeUow. 



^ Piscidia loDgi- 



t. 315. 



the English. Swartz, obs. 277. Lunan. hort. jam. f. p. 269^ 

 Kunth. nov. gen. amer. 6. p. 382. Erythrina piscipula, Lin. 

 spec. ed. 1. p. 107. Sloane, jam. 2. t. 176. f. 4 and 5. Lam. ill. 

 t. 605. f. A. Leaves rather coriaceous, advdt ones smooth. 

 Flowers rising before the leaves, of a dirty-white colour. The 

 bark of the root (leaves and twigs, Jacq.) is used with the same 

 effects as the leaves and branches of Surinam poison. It 



folia, Willd. spec. 3. p. 920. .j. 



Long-leaved Daubentonia. Fl. June, Aug. Clt. 1820. Sh. 

 Cult. To be propagated and cultivated in the same 



as that recommended for Piscidia. 



manner 



CXIX. CORYNELLA (a diminutive of Kopvyri, Jcoryne, 



J). C. in ann. sc 



a 



pounded and mixed with the water in some deep and convenient 

 part of a river or creek, whence it may spread itself; in a few 

 minutes the fish that lie hidden under the rocks or banks rise to 

 the surface, where they float as if they were dead ; most of the 

 larger ones recover after a time, but the smaller fty are de- 

 stroyed. Jacquin observes that this quality of intoxicating fish 

 is found in many other South American plants. The tree is con- 

 sidered in Jamaica as a good timber tree ; the wood is hard and 

 resinous, and lasts almost equally in or out of water. It is of a 

 light-brown colour, coarse, cross-grained, and heavy. It makes 

 excellent piles for wharfs. The stakes soon form a good living 

 fence. The bark of the trunk is very restringent ; a decoction 

 of it is said to stop the immoderate discharge of ulcers, especially 

 when It is combined with the mangrove bark ; it is said to cure 



is club ; in reference to the club-shaped style). 



nat. 4. Jan. 1825. p. 93. prod. 2. p. 267. 



Calyx bilabiate, 5-tooth- 



Lin. syst. Diadelj)hiay Decandria. v^ai^A il..!" ^ ,1 



ed ; teeth spreading, linear, subulate, 2 superior ones har y 

 shorter than the rest. Corolla papilionaceous ; all the P^^ /^ ^^ 

 very short claws. Keel obtuse. Stamens diadelphous, aDO 

 equal in length to each other. Style glabrous, ^^^^^'"^'^"^gt* 

 Legume lanceolate, compressed, marginate, many-seedea.-' • 



having the pe- 



Domingo shrubs, with abruptly-pinnate leaves, .. o 



tioles and stipulas ending in spiny mucrones, and the leatlets - 

 stipellate. Younff branches pubescent. Pedicels 1 -flowered, 



pell 

 fascicles. Flowers purplish. xa na 



1 C. polya'ntha (D. C. 1. c.) leaves with 5-7 pairs of <>°^^!J8 

 leaflets, which are glabrous above, and clothed with hoary h^* 

 beneath. T^ . S. Native of St. Domingo among bushes, on tn 



the mange in dogs, and it would probably answer well for tan- mountains. * Robinia polyantha, Swartz, fl. ind. occid. 2t P 



ning leather. 



1260. Corynltis polyantha, Spreng. syst. append. 280 





