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196 CONTRIBUTIONS FROM THE NATIONAL HERBARIUM. 



3. Loncliocarpus latifolius (AVilld.) II. B. K. 



(Urban, 297.) 



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Tree G to 20 meters high; leaflets 5 to 9, o\al'ubU)ng, acuminate, paler and minutely 

 pubcrulDUs beneath, ar glabieiseent, 5 to 15 cm. long, 2.5 to 5 cm. wide, pubcoriacoous; 

 inflorescence dt^nsely racemose, 7.5 to 12 em. long, many-flowered; calyx 2.2 mm. deep; 

 flowers purple, 8.5 to 11 mm. deep; .standard thinly silky; pod oblong (ir broadly linear, 

 5 to 7.5 cm. h)ng, 1.7 to 2.1 cm. l)n»adj 1 or 2-seededj not at alitor somewhat cont^tricted 

 between the seed::^, flat, thin, glabrescent. 



Near Bayamon, in w^oods at Palo Seco; Sierra de I.nquillo in the w<kh1s on Mount 

 Jimenez; near Quebradillas on the bank of the river; near Manati in Ihickets on the 

 coarit, and at Abra de lois MuertoH. — Cuba (Wright), Jamai<^a, Haiti, St, Kilts, Guad(*" 

 loupe, Dominica, Martinique (Sieber), St. Lucia, St. Vincent, Trinidad. ComnKm 

 also in the adjoining parts of South America. Central America to Nicaragua. The 

 hard wood is used in making furniture (Cook and Collins, p. 178.) 



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49. PISCIDIA T.. 



Piscidia I.. Syt^t. ed. 10. 2: 1 155. 1759. 



P 



Calyx subcampanulate, with the teeth short and wide, the two upp(^r ones slightly 

 adhering; standard orbicular; wings oblong-falcate, adhering to the obtuse keel; petals 

 of the keel cohering along the back; upper stamen free at the base, uiiit(Ml with the 

 others at the middle in a closed tube; ovary sessile with ninnerous pcchIp; style reflexed, 

 filiform, the stigma small, termimd; pod linear, flat, each suture widening into 2-A'ein(Hl 

 wings; seeds ovate, compressed. — Tree with imparipinnate leaves; leallets opposite; 

 flowers wiiite and blood-red, in short panicles; bracts opposite on the pedicel, sub(*l- 

 liptiCj subroriaceous, caducous. 



1. Piscidia piscipula (.h.) Sarg, 



m 



(THx^n, 2117.) 



Tree 20 meters high; leaflets 3 to 5-jngate, pubescent or glabrescent, oblong or ellip- 

 tical, point(Hl or blunt; flowers 1.2 to l.fl cm. long; wings each 1.2 to 1.0 cm. bnmd, 

 transversely striate, lacerate or repand; legume 5 to 10 < m. long, 8 nun. bnad, pubcru- 

 lous; seeds (5 to S, transversely oWong, black, 7 mm. long. 



In thickets and forests on the coast near Fajardo and near Salinas de Cabo Rojo.— 

 South Florida (Chapman), Florida Keys (Sarg^jnt), Bahama' (Gris(^ba<'h), Jamaica, 

 Haiti, St, Thomas, St. Croix, St. John (Eggers), St. Martin (Stockholm Herbarium), 

 St. Barthoh)mew (do.), Antigua (Grisebach), Guadeloupe, St. Lucia (Grisehach), St. 

 Vincent, Barbadi)Sj Grenaila, South Mexico. Soutln^rn parts of North America. 



Local nanu', veittiira. 



50. ANDIRA Lanu 



Voiiacapoua Auul. Hist. PI. Gui. 2: Supi)l. 0. pi. S7;L 1775, 

 Andlra Lam. Encyc. 1: 171. 1783. 



Calyx brt)adly campanulate or subturbinate, trum-ate, with short in<listinct teeth; 



petalsclawed;standardsuborbicular;wingsandpetalsof the keel nearly straight, oblong, 

 obtuse, the latter ind)ricate but not c(mnate on tlic back; upper stamen free, or rarely 

 connate with the rest; ovary stipitate or rarely sessile, 2 to 4- (rarely 1-) ovulate; stylo 

 short, incurved; stigma small, terminal; pod drupaceous, ovoid or obovoid, often some- 



