712 FABACEAE 
the wings undulate or incised. [Piscidia Erythrina L.]—(JAMAICA-DOGWOOD.)— 
Hammocks, coastal region, S pen. Fla., Everglade Keys, and Florida Keys.— 
(W. I.)—Spr. The hard durable wood is valued for pu Dd lding. The bark 
of the roots and powdered other parts of the tree were formerly used to 
stupefy fish. 
40. ANDIRA Lam. Trees. Leaflets several. Panicle terminal, ample. 
SL slightly 2- (en the upper lip notched: lower lip of three broad acute 
lobes. Corolla purple or reddish: - standard 
with a broad blade. Pod thick, d 
subglobose or somewhat elongate.—About 
20 species, most abundant in "dxopical 
America. 
1. A. en wae fe ME Wright) Urban. 
Tree wide eading arpa Eius 
finely bsc uh and inflor 
leaves 1-3 dm. long; leaflets mostly 9-13, 
the iid elliptie or oval, varying to ovate. =i 
or obov 5-8 em. long, abruptly cat MN 
nate, bs petiolate: panicle many-flow- : 
ered, much-branched: flowers purplish: 
calyx campanulate; lobes wider than long, 
the lower ones acute: standard 9-10 mm. long; the blade suborbieular: pod 
subglobose, oval, z obovoid, mostly 5-7.5 cm. long.—Hammocks, Bahia Honda 
m la.—(W. I.)—Su m.—Livi ving specimens collected on B ahia Honda Key 
e grown um the former Deering reservation at Buena Vista, Fla., where they 
faced in 192 
41. PITCHERIA Nutt. Perennial erect wiry herbs. Leaflets 3: blades 
coriaceous. Flowers axillary, solitary. Calyx 2-lipped, the lobes elongate, the 
the small beak nearly or dn central at the 
rounded tip.—One spec 
1. P. galactioides Nutt. Plant 6-12 dm. 
tall, widely pii ar Viae short- Po 
leaflets 5- d blades val 
obovate-oval, reticulat a resin "d 
lower ealyx-lobes Luis ee acuminate, 
5-7 mm. long: standard 7- a 
blade oe pod elliptic- aie A 
m. long. [Rhync diis galactioides adl ]—Dry sandy pinelands, Coastal Plain, 
Fla. to Miss.—Spr.— 
LICHOLUS Medie. Perennial herbaceous vines. Leaves long- 
red, idus 3; blades thin, not reticulate. Flowers in id axil- 
ary racemes. Calyx slightly 2-lipped, the 2 upper lobes searcely more united 
mud the others. Corolla yelow: blade of the standard broadened upward: 
