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or nearly Htmiglit, the. obtuso petals slightly cohering along the back; upper Htamen 

 free at the ba.sc, sometimes united with the others in a closed tube; ovary more ur leas 

 ^talked, blovulato or multiovulate; style filiform; stigma, ^mall, tenuuial; pod oblong 

 or elongated, uiembranourt or coriaceous, flat^ indehi.scent, tlio t^tyle scar terminal, 

 persistent, sutures not winged but the upper sometimes laterally <lilated; seeds 1 or 2, 

 rarely more, flat, almost reniform or orbicular. Trees or woody climbers; leaves 

 imparipinnate; leaflets opposite, rarely with stipels; stipules small, narrow; flowers 

 violet, purple, or white, in simple racemes or raceme-like panicles, usually in pairs 

 or clusters along the rachls; bracts and bracteoles usually small, deciduous, more 

 rarely persistent. 



KEY TO THE SPECrF.S, 



Flowers usually in pairs along the racliis; leaflets glabrous; stand- 

 ard usually sericeous ou the outer surface; pod oblong or linear, 

 the upper suture, especially near the seeds, with a projecting 

 ridge; flowers rose-colored. 



Standard callous or auriculate at the base; leaflets 7 to 11. 



(Section Neuroscapu I lienth.) ■ 1. L. doming rnf^is. 



Standard iu)t callous (jr auriculate at the base; leaflets 5 or 7, 2.*L. glaunfnlins. 

 Flowers many, usually small; standard glabrous or thinly silky 

 on the outer surface; sutures of the pod not dilated or thick- 

 ened, (Section Dexsiflopj Benth.) 3. L. lalifollus. 



1. lionchocarpus donriingensis (Pcrs.) D(\ 



(Urban, 296.) 



Tree 15 meters high, young l)ranches brown-tomentose becoming glabrous; leaves 

 17 to 19 cm. long; petiole about 3 cm. long; leaflets 7 to 11, most frequently 7, oval 

 or oblong, 5 to 12 cm. long, 2.5 to 5 cm. broad, coriaceous, glabrous on both sides, 

 the apex shortly acuminate, cuneate at the base; flowers in axillary racemes, pale 

 violet to rose-eolured, in clusters of 2 on a short branchlet, with a space between; 



racemes about 20 cm. long; pedicels 3 mm. long; calyx G mm. long, brown-tomentose; 



standard 1.4 mnu long, orbicular, the outside silky; pod usually 2 or3-seeded, 5 to 10 

 cm. long, at the seeds about 2 (*m. wide, constricted between the seeds, compressed, 

 almost woody, slightly brown-tomentose or glabrous. 



Near Guayanilla, close to the bank of the river at TjOs Indies; near Guanica, ])y 

 th(^ river at Rarinas; near Cabo Rojo, around Hacienda Garcia; near Mayaguez. 

 Jamaica (Bentham), Haiti, Guadeloupe, Martinique. 



2, Lioncliocarpus glaucifolius Url). 



(Urban, 297.) 



Shrub with climbing branches or treer> to 8 meters high; leaves 5 or 7-foliolate; leaf- 

 lets elliptical or ellipticaT-obbmg, rounded at the apox or shortly and obtusely acu- 

 minate, obtuse or rounded at the base, 4 to 13 mm. long, 2 tu 7 cm. wide, glabrous, veins 

 on the upper surface impressed; inflorescence fi to l-l-flowered, in lax racemes; calyx 4 

 nun. d(»ep; flowers rose-colored; standard orbicular, 12 to 15 mm. long; wings 4 nun, 

 wide; pod lini^ar or broadly linear, G to 14 cm. long, 1 to 1.5 cm. wide, 2 to 7-seeded, 

 coriaceous; seeds oval -reniform, 9 mm. long, 5 mm. wide, dark brown. 



In the prim(*val mountain forests near Rincon at Oalvache; near Aguada on Mount 

 Piodra 151anca and in the mountain forests at lilo Grande; near Aguadilla, in the moun- 

 tains at Espinal; near Qucbradillas at Cano Grande. Indigenous. 



Local name, geno. 



