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1. Ormosia krugii I7rb. 



(Urban, 280.) 



Troo 10 to 25 meters high; leaves 7 to 9-foliolate; potioh^'s 20 cm. long; loaflots 7 to 

 15 mm. long, petiolulate, oval or oval-ellipUcal, obovalu or ovate, rounded or truncate 

 at the top, rounded or subtruncate at the base, 7 to 25 (in. long, 3.5 to 14 cm. wide, 

 coriaceous, upper surface glabrous, lower surface with minute adpressed haira; inflores- 

 cence sometimes 35 cm. long, axillary or terminal, paniculate or subcorynibose; calyx 

 10 unn. hmg, pilose; petals dark violet; standard sul)<>rl>icular, 12 mm. wide, spotted 

 wilh white or pale yellow; wings oblitiue, obovate-cuneate; keel petals free, oblique, 

 oblong, 13 to 14 mm. long; ovary 4 to G-ovulate; pod 10 cm. long, 2 cn^. wide, con- 

 stricted between the seeds; seeds suborljicular or obovate-orbicular, 10 to 12 mm. 

 long, r> to 9 mm. thick, carmine-red or spotted with black. 



In the primeval woods near liayamcm; near Juncos, on Mount Guvuy; Sierra de las 

 Picdras on Mount Frances; near Yaburoa, on Mount Piedra A/Ail at Jacana and on 

 Mount Cerro Gordo; lu^ar Adjuntas, on Mount Andubo and Mount Cedro; near Utuado, 

 at Roncador; in Sierra de Lares at Guajataca.— Dominica at Castle Bruce. 



Local names, vialos or pah dr }na:()s, peronin. 



27. SOPHOBA L. 



Sophora L. Sp. PI. 1: 373. 1753. 



Calyx teeth short; standard obovate or orbicular, erect or spreading; wings oblong, 

 oldique; keel o!)loug, nearly straight, its petals usually imbricate or coherent along 

 the back; stamens p(Tigynous or nearly hypogynous, free or rarely slightly connate 

 at the base; anthers versatile; ovary short-stalked, multiovulate; style im-urved; 

 stigma minute, terminal; pod moniliform, terete or slightly compressed, coriaceous 

 and indehiscent in our species; cotyledons thick, the radicle sometimes straiglit and 

 short, sometmies longer and inflex(Hl.— Trees or shrubs with imparipinnate leaves; 

 leaflets somethnes small and numerous, sometimes few and large, often witli stipels; 

 flowers white, rarely a Ijluish-violet, in simph^ terminal racemes, these sometimes 

 aggregated in panicles. 



1. Sophora tomentosa L. 



(Urban, 280.) 



A robust, erect slirul>, 2 to 3 meters high, the branches densely argenteous; petiole 

 2.5 cm. long; rachis 5 to 10 cm. long; leaflets 15 to 19, nearly sessile, oblong, 4 to 5 cm. 

 long, slightly mucronate, the base slightly roundf^d, subcoriaceous, both sides densely 

 and permanently coated with adpressed gray-silvery tomentum; flowc^rs in lax 12 to 

 30-nowered axillary and terminal racemes; pedicels O.G to 1.2 cm. long, argenteous, 

 with a lanceolate ur liuear bract at the base; calyx campanulate, 6 to 8 nnn. deep, 

 sul>truncate, argenteous; corolla, bright yellow, l.S cm. deep; pod 12.5 to 15 cm. long, 

 with 5 to 8 coriac(H)ns segments to 8 mm. thick, connected by narrow necks. 



Near Guanica, at Salinas; near Mayaguez in coast districts toward Guanajibo.— 

 Bermuda (Ilemsley), South Florida (Cliapman), Bahama (Hitchcock), Cuba, Jamaica, 

 Haiti, St. Thomas, St. Croix (Eggers), Antigua (Grisebach), Guadeloupe (do,), Marie 

 Galante, Martinique, St. Lucia, St. Vincent, Union (Kew Bull. no. 81, p. 248). A 

 cosmopolitan of the Tropics, often found on the seashore. 



