168 AMYGDALACEAE. 



Keacle records the introduction of Padus virginiana (L.) Mill., AMERICAN 

 WILD CHERRY, prior to 1883, but no wild cherry trees are now known in 

 Bermuda. 



Amygdalus persica L., PEACH, Asiatic, is widely planted in several races 

 and grows luxuriantly, but the production of good fruit is almost completely 

 prevented by the stinging of the fruit fly, and the industry is thus essentially 

 prevented. NECTARINE, a variety of Amygdalus persica, was formerly in 

 cultivation. 



Amygdalus communis L., ALMOND, Asiatic, is occasionally grown, but its 

 fruit also is stung. Lefroy records the BITTER ALMOND as in cultivation prior 

 to 1875. 



Prunus domestica L., PLUM, European, has been experimented with but 

 does not succeed, the climate being unsuitable. A species of Prunus, a kind 

 of Plum, the species undetermined, was seen growing as the stock on which a 

 peach tree had been grafted, at the Agricultural Station in 1914. 



Prunus armeniaca L., APRICOT, Asiatic, grows luxuriantly, as shown by 

 tree about 18 high seen at Mt. Hope in 1914; it is rarely planted. [Arme- 

 niaca vulgaris DC.] 



Chrysobalanus pellocarpus Meyer, PORK-FAT APPLE, West Indian, with 

 evergreen obovate leaves, small white flowers in showy axillary and terminal 

 panicles, and obovoid drupes with thin purplish flesh covering a large hard 

 stone, is grown in a few gardens for preserves, and thrives luxuriantly. 



Family 10. MIMOSACEAE Reichenb. 



MIMOSA FAMILY. 



Herbs, shrubs or trees, with alternate, commonly 2-3-pinnate leaves, 

 the stipules various, and small regular mostly perfect flowers in heads, 

 spikes or racemes. Calyx 3-6-toothed or 3-6-lobed, the teeth or lobes 

 mostly valvate in the bud. Corolla of as many distinct or united petals, 

 also valvate. Stamens distinct, or monadelphous. Ovary 1-celled ; style 

 simple. Fruit a legume. Seeds without endosperm; cotyledons fleshy. 

 About 30 genera and 1350 species, mostly tropical. 



Trees or shrubs : seeds transverse in the pod. 1. Leucaena. 



Herbs ; seeds oblique or lengthwise in the narrow pod. 2. Acuan. 



1. LEUCAENA Benth. 



Evergreen shrubs or trees, usually unarmed. Leaves alternate, pinnate; 

 petioles often furnished with a gland, the leaflets subtended by setaceous 

 stipels; leaflets oblique, small and in many pairs or large and in few pairs; 

 flowers mostly perfect, sessile, white, in dense heads. Calyx 5-lobed. Corolla 

 of 5 distinct petals. Stamens 10, exserted. Ovary stalked; style filiform; 

 ovules numerous. Pods broadly linear, flat. Seeds crosswise in the pod. 

 [Greek, referring to the white flowers.] About 15 species, natives of warm 

 and tropical regions, the following typical. 



