188 FABACEAE. 



Spartium junceum L., SPANISH BROOM, European, recorded by Jones in 

 IS 73 as lately introduced by Lefroy and expected to be of great value in bind- 

 ing drifting sands on the southern shores, is said by Lefroy to have been raised 

 from seed and flowered at Mt. Langton, but never established itself. It is a 

 shrub, with stiff, round branches, few and small narrow leaves and large, 

 bright yellow flowers. 



Ulex europaeus L., GORSE, European, a yellow-flowered shrub with linear 

 sharp-pointed leaves, has been grown at times for ornament and interest but 

 does not succeed well. 



Kraunhia frutescens (L.) Greene [Wistaria frutescens Poir.], NORTH 

 AMERICAN WISTARIA, a woody vine with pinnate leaves and pendent racemes 

 of purplish flowers, is occasionally planted about houses. 



Lonchocarpus violaceus H.B.K., VIOLET LONCHOCARPUS, West Indian, 

 a tree with pinnate leaves of 7-9 ovate pointed leaflets and racemose violet 

 flowers followed by flat 1-seeded stalked pods, is occasionally planted for 

 t-hade and ornament, and is healthy and luxuriant. 



Eobinia Pseudoacacia L., NORTH AMERICAN ACACIA, LOCUST-TREE, a 

 hard-wooded tree with rough bark, thin, odd-pinnate leaves of 9-19 stalked 

 leaflets and racemose white flowers, is occasionally planted foi ornament, and 

 some rather large trees may be seen. 



Jones records a plant of this family as Eobinia dubia. This name has 

 been given by authors to three different trees; I can not determine which is 

 meant. 



Codariocalyx gyrans (L. f.) Hassk., TELEGRAPH-PLAXT, of southern Asia, 

 formerly grown at Mt. Langton, is an interesting herbaceous plant about 3 

 high, its leaves with 3 oblong leaflets, the 2 lateral much smaller than the 

 terminal one, and move rather abruptly in sunshine into various positions ; its 

 purple flowers are panicled, and its pods jointed. [Desmodium gyrans DC.] 



Toluifera peruifera (L. f.) Baill., BALSAM OF PERU, South American, 

 a balsamiferous tree with pinnately compound leaves, shining, reticulate-veined 

 ovate leaflets, racemose irregular flowers and curiously winged pods bearing 

 one seed in the end, was successfully introduced, according to Lefroy. 

 [Myrospermum peruiferum DC.] 



Toluifera Balsamum L., BALSAM OF TOLU, recorded by Jones, also South 

 American, was represented by a young tree at the Agricultural Station in 

 1913. [Myrospermum toluiferum DC.] 



Erythrina Corallodendron L., SWORD-FLOWER, CORAL-TREE, West Indian, 

 a large tree with prickly twigs, yellow wood, 3-foliolate leaves, ovate, thin, 

 glabrous leaflets and scarlet flowers appearing in large terminal clusters before 

 the leaves, the corolla narrow, with the petals parallel, the long narrow pods 

 containing many red seeds, is planted for ornament. 



Erythrina velutina Willd., VELVETY CORAL-TREE, West Indian, a large 

 tree with 3-foliolate leaves, the broadly ovate blunt leaflets hairy beneath, the 

 flowers bright red, is represented by a few fine specimens; a very large tree 

 stood near the east end of Devonshire Marsh in 1912. 



Erythrina Crista-galli L., COCKSPUR CORAL-TREE, South American, a 

 shrub or small tree, the branches slender, glabrous and sometimes vine-like, 

 habitually dying back, the 3 oblong-ovate, short-pointed, glabrous leaflets about 

 2-J' long, the showy crimson and scarlet flowers clustered, on slender pedicels, 

 the broad standard petal becoming reflexed, somewhat longer than the keel, is 

 occasionally planted for ornament. 



Erythrina arborea (Chapm.) J. K. Small, a low Floridian species, with 

 glabrous 3-lobed leaflets, the middle lobe long-pointed, is occasional in gardens. 

 [E. herbacea arborea Chapm.] 



