176 CONTEIBUTIONS FROM THE NATIONAL IIEI113AKIUM 



1. Barbieria pinnata (Pors.) Baill/^ 



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(Urban, 284.) 



Herb or und(T.^hrub, 0.5 to 4 meters high; leafleta 15 to 21, oblong or ovate-oblong, 

 stipellate, 2 to 4 cm. long, 1 to 1.25 cm. widoj mucronate, membranous, with scattered 

 hairs above, appressed -sericeous below; racemes 8 to 10 cm. long; flowers vermilion; 

 calyx tube 19 mm. long, calyx teelh 10 mm. lung, colored; corolla 5 to 6 cm. long; 

 standard twice as long as the calyx; pod 5 to 6.5 cm. long, G mm. broad, pilose; tweeds 



black* 



Near Rayamon, in t^bady places; near XJtuado, on slopes at Pellejas; near Maricao, 



on slopes; near Lares, on shady slopes at Palma Llanos; near Mayagiuv-, on Blount 



Mesa and at Mayaguez- Arriba; near Aguada, in the fore^^is at Piedra lUanca. — Cuba, 



Haiti, tropical South America. 



Noticeable are the long calyx and showy red flowers of this species. It has also 



long, pinnate heaves, with many leaflets, which are pubescent on the lower surface. 



Local 



33, GLIRICIDIA H. P., K. 



Glitkidia H. B, K. Nov. Gen. & Sp. 6: 392, 393. 1823. 



Calyx teeth broad, short, the two upper ones sul>connate; stan(hird larg(^, reflexed, 

 sometimes with a pair of inflexed auricles at the base; wings arcuate-oblong, trans- 

 versely plicate, free; keel obtuse, inflexed; upper stamen free, the rest connate, 

 forming a sheath; anthers uniform; ovary stipitate, muUiovulale; style awl-shaped, 

 inflexed, glabrous, or beneath the stigma somewhat hairy; stigma small, terminal; 

 pod stalked, broadly linear, unwinged, 2-valved, not septate wilhiuj the valves 

 coriaceous. — Trees or shrubs; leaves imparipinnate; leaflets entire, not stipellate; 

 stipules small; flowers rose-colored, in axillary rac(mes, or in fascicles on the old 

 wood; bracts and bracteoles small or wanting. 



1. G-liricidia sepium (Jacq.) Steud. 



(Urban, 284.) 



Tree 8 meters high ur higher; leaflets 9 to 17, ovatc-o]>long ur ovatc-lanceolale, 

 broadly acuminate, obtuse at the apex, 3.5 to 0.5 cm. l(»ng, ].5 lu 2 cm. wide, subco- 

 riaceous, subglabrous; -flowers in many-flowered racemes, rose-colored; ealyx with 5 

 very small teeth, glabrous or slightly pilose outside, 4 to 5 mm. deep; standard 20 to 

 25 mm. long, rose-colored, yellow above the base, keel inflexed; ovary glabrous; pod 

 10 to 20 cm. long, LI to 2 cm. broad, sublignt^ms. 



Near Aiiasco. Not indigenous in Porto Rico, but introduced from Cuba (Gundlach j; 

 Jamaica (Hansen); Haiti (Picarda); Domingo (Millspaugh).— Mexico, Nicaragua, 

 Guatemala, Yucatan, Panama. 



In the specimens from ^lexico and Yucatan tht^ flowers are irregularly spotted and 

 striped with brownish-purple, and Urban makes of them a ]iew form (forma maculata 

 Urb.; Robinia viacidata H. P. K.). According to Preuss, this tree is much used in 

 Nicaragua for shading coffee and cacao. It is also grown for hedges. 



liocal names; Nicaragua, madre de cacao, madera ncgra (Preuss); Cuba, hien vestida 

 (Gniner); Mexico^ cacaguananclii (Lamb); Carthagena. waUt raton or maton (Jacquin). 



f^Cook and Collins, p. 89, as Barbieria pnjyphjlla. 



