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This tree produces excellent timber. 
294. S\yARTZiA pinnaia, "\^"lld., Dc Caad. Prodr. vol. ii. p. 423. Hacienda dc Juan Lanas and 
^-iUage of San Juan, Province of Panama j also collected by Barclay in some place on the "V^^est 
Coast of America (Herb. Hook.) . ' 
My specimens, as well as those of Barclay of the same plant, do not quite agree with Dc Caudolle's 
description ; the peduncles are not velvety, but only slightly tomentose. My plant grows in dark forests, 
and is a tree about 35 feet high, the leaves arc about 9 inches long, the racemes are in pairs, and the 
petals bright yellow. If I am not mistaken, it is vernacularly termed " Cutaro.' 
295. Browxea Rosa, Pers._, Be Cand. Prodr. vol. ii. p. 477. Bays of Ardita and Solano, 
Darien, and, according to Dc Candollc, at Portobclo, in the Pro^-incc of Panama. 
296. Tamarindus Indica, Linn., De Cand. Prodr. vol. ii. p. 488. — Nomcn vcrnacul. "Tama-- 
rindo." Cultivated on account of its fruit. 
297. HymeN/EA Courbaril, Linn., Dc Cand. Prodr. vol. ii. p. 511.— Nomcn vcrnacul. " Algar- 
robo." Common all over tlic country. 
The wood of the Algarrobo is used for building purposes; the pulp of the fruit is eaten. 
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298. Bauhinia {§ PauUetia) parvifolia, Seem.; fruticosa, erecta, ramulis rufo-Uirtellis dcuium 
glabris, spinis stipularibus roctis, foliis ovatis supra viridibus glabris subtus subglaucesccntibus 
pubescentibus 8-9-ner™s \ bilobis, lobis obtusissimis, racemis tcrminalibus, petalis cxtus rufo- 
tomentellis, Icgumine glabro demum villoso. Panama -vaejo. 
A shrub about 12 feet high. Leaves 1 inch long and about 10 lines broad ; flowers 2 inches long ; 
stalk of the pod 3 inches long, and the pod itself C to 7 inches long and three-quart-ers of an inch bruad, 
when young glabrous, but gradually becoming villous.— This species has some af&nity to S. microphylU, 
Vogel, and B. eorniculata, Beuth. ; from the former it differs in its rufo-birtcUous branches and less deeply 
divided leaves ; from the latter in its smaller leaves, and their obtuse lobes. 
299. Bauhinia inermis, Pers., De Cand. Prodr. vol. ii. p. 514.— Nomen vemacul. " Cocla." On 
the outskirts of woods near Remedios, Veraguas. 
300. ScHNELLA ColumUensis, Bcntli. in Bot. Sulph. p. S9.— Bauhinia Columbiensis, Vogel, 
Wlprs. Kep. vol. i. p. 852. Mouth of the Rio Grande de Panama. 
301. ScHNELLA spUndens, Benth. in Hook. Joum. of Bot. vol. ii. p. 91.— Bauhinia splendent, 
H. B. K., De Cand. Prodr. vol. ii. p. 516. In dark forests of the Island of Coyba and the Bay of 
Axdita. 
302. CoFAiFERA officinalis, Linn., De Cand. Procfr. vol. ii. p. 508; quoad plantam Jacquini, 
C. Jacquini, Desf. Village of Gualaca, Province of Veraguas (Warszcwicz) . 
« The balsam of this tree," says M. de T\^arszewicz, in a letter to Daniel Hanbury, Esq., " is not exported 
from Vera-uas. The inhabitants bf the town of David and the neighbom^g district collect it for pamtmg 
with it their doors and window-frames, and use it medicinally ; a ^e-bottle full is sold there for from 4 to 
5 reals (2s. to 2s. Ci.)." 
303. Pkosopis dnUis, Kunth, TVlprs. Rep. vol. i. p. 862.-P. horrida, H.B.K., De Cand. 
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