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Ouluvated and seemingly spontaneous n(^ar Bayamon; near Yabncoa; near ULuado, 

 at Salto Arriba; near Mayaguez, — Florida Keys, Bahama (Dnlley), Cuba. Taniaica, 

 Cayman (Hitchcock), Haiti, St. Thomas, St. Croix, St. Martin (Stockholm Herbarium), 

 St. Bartholomew (do.), St- Kitts, Antigua (Griscbach), Guadeloupe, Martinique, 

 St, Vincent, Barbados (Sloane), Grenada, Tobago, Trinidad (Grisebaeli). The plant 

 is also found iii America, Asia, and Africa. Native country unknown. 



This elegant bush remains in flower all the year. In one variety the flowers are red, 

 in another yellow. The leaves, flowers, and seeds are largely used in native medicine. 



Local name, davelUna. Cuba, cuacamaya (Sagra); Jamaica, y/ow^v/^^nc^ of Burhado^ 

 or wild senna or Spanish carnation (Sloane), Barbados pride (P. Brown, Macfadyen); 

 France, poinciade or Jleurs de paradis (Jacquin); Haiti, poincdladc (Jiiger, Bucli); 

 Danish Islands, dudcUbx (Eggers); GuadeloupOj haraguctte (Duchassaing, Duss); }*Iar- 

 tinique, arrete-hwufs (Duss); Barbados, flower fence or Spanish carnation (Hughes); 

 Tobago, dadeldii (Kggers). 



25. MYROSPERMUM Jacq. 



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Myrospermum Jacq. Enum. PI. Carib. 4. 1700. 

 Calusia Bkrt.; DC. Prod. 2; 94. 1825, as section. 



Calyx iuflexed-turbinate, with very short, wide, meml)ranous teeth; standard 

 obovate, the 4 inferior pc^tals free, almost alikcj curved, Uuu (*olate, acute; stamens 

 free, persistent, with lonj]: fdaments and small anthers; ovary stipitate, 2 to many- 

 seeded; style subulate, almost straight, with a small terminal stigma; pod stipitate, 

 compressed, indehiscent, with one seed at the apex, narrowed to the base, 2-winged, 

 the wing of the upper fiut\n*u broader than tlmt of the lower; seeds oblong. — Tree with 

 imparipinnate leaves; leaflt'ta with pellucid lines and dots; flowers rather large, in 

 terminal racemes. 



1. Myrospermum frutescens Jacq. 



(Urban, 279.) 



A small tree, 3 to 5 meters high or a large one 20 meters high; leaflets 5 to 7-jugate, 

 2 to 2.5 cm. long, membranaceous, oblong or oval, roundb-li, retuse or blunt at the 

 apex, glabrous, striate with peBucid lines; flowers white, the standard striped in the 

 middle with green; legume 5 to 7.5 cm, loug (including the wing), as broad as the wing, 

 which tap(^rs at the base into a short stalk. 



Cultivated and seemingly wild near Coamo ; near Peiiuelas, near Utuado, in a thicket 

 of Coffea arabica at San Andres; near Mayaguez. — St. Croix (Eggers). Native countr 

 Trinidad, Central America, Colombia, Venezuela. 



Local names, cereipo^ sereipo. 



26. ORMOSIA Jacks. 



Ormosia JxcKH. Trans. Tjinn. Soc, 10: 300. pis. 25, S7. 1811. 

 Macrolropis D(\ Prod. 2: 98. 1825. 



Calyx campanulate with tht.^ 2 u[>per teeth subconnate and usually longer and wider, 

 often incurved; petals unguiculate; standard suborbicular or cordate; wings (»bliqu(,^, 

 obovate-oblong; keel with the petals free; stamens free, unc^qual, all or all but one or 

 two p(Tfect; anthers versatile; ovary subsessile, biovulate or multiovulate; style 

 fdiform, involute at the apex; stigma introrse, lateral; pod oblong or more rarely 

 linear, usually short, compressed, coriaceous, fleshy or woody^ 2-valved, contimious or 

 septate between the seeds; seeds obovate or oblong, rather thick, shiny, scarlet or 

 spotted with black. — Trees with imparipinnate or abruptly pinnate leaves; leaflets 

 coriaceotis; flowers white, lilac, or l)lackish purple in terminalj more rarely axillary, 

 panicles, sometimes in racemes. 



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