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Dalbcrgia hixasloplujllam (L,) Taub., a plant common in maritime tliickettf, lias 

 solitary leaflets, 10 stamens, and a pod that is nearly njund, while the only other 

 Portu Rican species^ D. monetaria, lias 3 to 5 leaflets, 9 btamenSj and an oblong' pod. 



Local names, marwj-maray, palo de polio. 



2. Dalberg-ia monetaria L, f. 



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(Urban, 295.) 



Shrub 2 to 4 meters high; stems firm^ woody, wide climbing; leaves 15 to 17 cm. 

 long; leaflets 8 to l;j cm. long, 4 to 5.5 cm. wide; flowers in small panicles in the axils 

 of (he leaves, 1.5 to 3 cm. long; calyx 5 mm. deep, green; corolla more than twice as 

 long as the calyx, white or yellow-white; anthers ytdlow, becoming brown; mature 

 fruit brown. 



Near Cayanion in mountain thickets and woods; Sierra de Lu(iuino, in the woods 

 between Mavl and ^fount Jimene/. ; near Juncos oti the nvov l)aidv; near Hato Grande, 

 on the shady river l>ank opposite Mount Gregorio; near Yalmcoa, on the edge of the 

 forests at Jacana, in primeval for(\sts at Guayavota, and in La Pandura at Santa Elena; 

 near Aibonito; near Utuado, on the edge ol tin? primeval forest at San Andres and m 

 copses on the Rio Grande River at Saltilhj Arril)a; near Maricao in monnlain woods; 

 near Sabana Grande in tlie woods near the cataract of Estero Rivc^r; near Mayaguez. — 

 Cuba (Grisebach), Haiti, Guadeloupe, Martini(pu^, St. Vincent, Grenadaj Trinidad. 

 Tropical America, north Rrazil, ('ayennt^, Surinam, British Guiana, 



Local names, palo de brasilctc^ wcvibrillo. 



46. DBEPANOCARPUS G. F, ^\^ Mey. 



DrepanocarpuH G. F. \\\ Mey. Prim. Fl. EsHe<i. 23G. 1818. 

 Nephrosis Rich.; DC. Trod. 2: 420. 1825, 

 0/"a(;a/ia Juss.; DC. loc. c\t. 



Calyx canipanulate, obtuse at the base, truncate at the apex, the teeth short; 

 standard broadly ovate or orbicular, on the outside silky; wings ol)long, often falcate; 

 keel incurv(Hl, its petals connate at Ihe back; stamens all connate in a sheath slit 

 alxjve, or botli above and Ixdow, or more rarely the upjx-r one free; ovary short- 

 stallvcd, 1- (rarely 2-) ovulate; style slender, incurved; stigma small, terminal; pod 

 falcate or suborbicular, compr(^ssed, thiek-lcalliery, tlu^ njtpi^r suture intruse, the 

 lower very mucli ardied, witli 1 hirge, reniform, compressed seed. — Erect tree or high- 

 climbing shrub; leaves imparipinnate; ](^anots usually alternalt!; stipules often spinous; 

 floW(Ts small or niod(Tately large, purple, vioh^t, or whit(^; rac^'nu^s short, fascicled or 

 branched, axillary or in terminal panicles; l^racts small, caducous; bractcoles under 

 the calyx orbicular, persist(mt. 



1. Drepanocarpus lunatus (L. f. ) G. F. \V. Mey. 



(Urban, 2%.) 



An erect bush or small tree 2 to 3 meters high, with firm ghil)rous l)ranches and with 

 sharp, subfalcate spines from the nodes; petioles short; raehis 5 to 10 cm. long; leaflets 

 5 to 11, short-stalkt^d, oblanceolate (tr obhmg. ;^5 to 5 cm. long, blunt, rigidly coria- 

 ceous, both sid<*s glabrous, the veins slightly raised; panicles copious, axillary and 

 termiTial; calyx glabrous, (! mm. deep; corctlla lihu', (J. 5 to <S.5 mm. deep; pod 1.8 cm. 



bn)adj curved round so that the point touchr^s the base, suhlig(mous, the curve 3 to 

 3.5 cm. broad; pedicel r> mm. h>ng. 



Near Bayamon, in the forest at Faht Secf>; nt^ar Los Mameyes, in the Manglar swamp 

 at La Carnn^lita; near Humacao, in littoral tliickets near Punta Canada; n(\ir Maun- 

 abo, in thickets at Punta de Tuna; near Mayaguez, — Haiti, St. Thomas, St. Croix 



