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fuotL From the roots in Cuba and IlaiLi an emetic is made, and a remedy used for 

 rheumatism is procured l)y boiling the h^avoa. The wood is sometimes used as a dye, 

 but chiefly as a substitute for tlie true red sandahvood. The heartwood is n\\, liard, 

 closegrainod, duralde, and strong, and is used for house buikling and cabinet making. 

 Local names, coralitas, maio, maio Colorado, polo de mato, pcronilas. 



bose 



12. PIPTADENIA Jlvnih. 



Piptadcnia'HE>;TU. Uook. Journ. T5ot. 4: 33L ]Si2. 

 Schlcinitzia^XMiB. Engl I'xU. Yahrl). 13; XM). 1891. 



Flowers sessile, 5-merwus; <'alyx campannlato, shortly toothed; conjlla connate to 

 the mi<ldle; stamens 10, free, exserted; ovary subsessih- ovules 3 to many; legume 

 stipitate, rarely sessile, broadly linear, flat, membranaceous or subcoriaceous, 2-vulved, 

 the valves continuous, wiLhout pulp; seeds compressed; funiculus niiiorm.— Trees or 

 shrubs, unarmed or aculeate; heaves bii>iniuilA- leaflets small, nnihijugate, ranly large 

 and paucijugate; flowers small, while or gn-enish, cylindrically spicate or gl 

 capitate, solitary or fascicled, axillary or panicled at tln^ <^xtremiti(^s. 



E Piptadenia peregrina (L.) B(^nth. 



t 



(Urban, 2G9.) 



Shrub 4 meters high or tree 20 meters high, unarmed; pinnae 15 to 30-jngate, leaflets 

 30 to 80-jugate, minute, 2 to 4 mm. long, 1 to E5 mm. wide, lin(^ar, glabrescent; petiole 

 pubcrulous, bearing a gland above the base; flower heads white, small; calyx 1 .5 mm, 

 long; corolla 3.5 mm. long; legume 5 to 15 cm. long, 1.5 cm. broad, subcoriaceous, 2- 

 valved. 



Near liayamon, In mountain woods at Toa Baja; near Aibonito, on slopes near Buena 

 Vista de la IMata; near Pabana Grande, on the Estero River; near Cabo Bojo, toward 

 Guanajibo; near Mayaguez; near Rincon, at fiarriodel Tasto; ManatI, in thickets near 

 Garrochales.— Haiti, Duminica, St. Vincent (Grisebach), Trinidad ^Bentham). Trop- 

 ical America: Brazil, provinces of Rio Janeiro, Minas Gt^raes, Goyaz, and Rio Negro; 

 Guiana, Venezuda. 



Local names, cojobana, eojoba^ cojobillo, rojobo. 



13. ENTADA Adans 



Enlada A dans. Fam. 2: 318. 1703, 



Flowers spicate, 5-mero!is, sessile or shortly pedicellate- calyx campanulate, toothed 

 or deltoiddol)ate; petals free or coherent at base, oblongdanceolate or linear, valvate; 

 stamens 10, xisually exserted, the anthers elliptical or roundish with a terminal cadu- 

 cous gland; pollen-grains indc^finite; ovary subsessile, nndtiovulate; style fdiform; 

 stigma terminal, truncate, concave; legume straight, sometimes of enormous size; 

 seeds flattened, exalbuminous; testa with a central areole.^Trees or climl)Iiig shrubs, 

 unarmed; leavers bipinnate, the number of pinnae and of leaflets very variable; spikes 

 solitary or fascicled from the upper axils, or panicled at the extremities; hermaphro- 

 dite or polygamous. 



1. Entada polyphylla Benth. 



(Urban, 2G90 



A largo shrub 5 meters higli; pinnae 4 to 8-jugate; leaflets 12 to 20-jugate, linear- 

 oblong, obtuse, retuse, clothed beneath with short adpressed hairs; spikes numerous 

 in terminal racemes, rachis and petioles puberulent; legumes 7.5 cm. long. 



