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Hymenaea Courbaril L., WEST INDIAN LOCUST, tropical American, a 

 large tree with leaves of one pair of thick leaflets and oblong woody pods 6'-8' 

 long, has been occasionally planted as an ornamental lawn tree, but I do not 

 know of any in Bermuda now. 



Bauhinia monandra Kurz, NAPOLEON 's PLUME, East Indian, a shrub or 

 tree with large round leaves cleft from the apex to about the middle and 

 large irregular flowers, with only I fertile stamen, followed by half-woody 

 pods 6'-8' long, is frequently planted for ornament. This is probably the 

 plant recorded by Lefroy and by Verrill as Bauliinia Tallin, and, perhaps, not 

 different from what Lefroy recorded as Casparea porrecta. 



Bauhinia racemosa Lam., YELLOW BAUHINIA, East Indian, a small tree, 

 with leathery, 2-cleft leaves l'-2' long, yellow flowers with 10 stamens, its pods 

 nearly 1 long, 1' wide, is recorded by Lefroy as represented prior to 1877 by 

 a tree at the Model Farm in Smith's Parish, flowering in June. [B. parvi- 

 flora Yahl.] 



Haematoxylon campechianum L., LOGWOOD, tropical American, a small 

 tree with grooved or furrowed trunk, smooth bark, equally pinnate leaves 3 '-6' 

 long with 3 or 4 pairs of obovate, emarginate leaflets 6"-8" long, the axillary, 

 racemose flowers yellow, was seen at the Agricultural Station in 1914. 



Brownea grandiceps Jacq., BOSA DE MONTE, South American, noted by 

 Lefroy as introduced at Mount Langton in 1875, is mentioned by H. B. Small 

 as having subsequently disappeared. It is a large, pinnate-leaved tree, with 

 showy, crimson, clustered flowers. [Hermesias grandiceps (Jacq.) Kuntze.] 



Detarium senegalense Gmel., DETARIUM, of tropical Africa, listed by Jones 

 in 1873 as growing in Bermuda, is not recorded by other authors and has not 

 been observed by me. It has alternate, unevenly pinnate leaves of blunt ovate 

 leaflets which are velvety beneath, its flowers in axillary racemes, with a 4- 

 cleft calyx, no petals and 10 stamens, its fruit drupaceous. 



Family 12. FABACEAE Reichenb. 

 PEA FAMILY. 



Herbs, shrubs, vines or trees, with alternate mostly compound stipu- 

 late leaves, and irregular (papilionaceous) perfect or sometimes polygarno- 

 dioecious flowers, mainly in spikes, heads, racemes or panicles. Calyx 

 4-5-toothed, or 4-5-cleft, sometimes 2-lipped. Petals more or less united, 

 or separate, perigynous or hypogynous, usually consisting of a broad upper 

 one (standard, banner), two lateral ones (wings), and two front ones more 

 or less united (forming the keel) ; the standard encloses the wings in the 

 bud. Stamens monadelphous, diadelphous, or sometimes separate, 10 in 

 most of the genera, sometimes 9, rarely 5. Pistil simple, superior; ovary 

 mainly 1-celled, sometimes 2-celled by the intrusion of the sutures, or 

 several-celled by cross-partitions ; style simple ; ovules 1-many, anatropous 

 or amphitropous. Fruit a legume, 1-many-seeded, dehiscent into 2 valves, 

 or indehiscent, in one tribe a loment. Seeds mostly without endosperm; 

 cotyledons thick. About 325 genera and over 5000 species, most abundant 

 in temperate and warm regions. The family is also known as PAPILIO- 



NACEAB. 



Filaments 10, all separate. 1. Sophora. 



Filaments 10 or 9, monadelphous or diadelphous. 

 Leaves without tendrils. 

 Herbs, shrubs or trees. 



Anthers of 2 kinds : stamens monadelphous. 2. Crotalaria. 



Anthers all alike : stamens mostly diadelphous. 

 Leaves 3-foliolate : herbs. 



Pods curved or curled. 3. Nedicayo. 



