156 MIMOSACEAE. 



2. Pithecolobium guadalupense Chapm. Fl. S. IT. S. 116. 1860. 



Pithecolobium Tceyense Britton; Coker, in Shattuck, Bah. Isl. 255. Hypo- 

 nym. 1905. 



A usually unarmed shrub or small tree, sometimes 6 m. high with a trunk 

 up to 1.5 dm. in diameter, the bark gray, slightly fissured, the twigs and leaves- 

 glabrous. Petioles 2-3 cm. long, bearing a round gland at the summit; pinnae 



2. stalked, each bearing a single pair (rarely 2 pairs) of sessile leaflets, which 

 are obliquely obovate or nearly orbicular, firm in texture, 3-7 cm. long, rounded 

 or notched at the apex, or rarely short-pointed, the margins somewhat revolute; 

 peduncles slender, glabrous, as long as the leaves or shorter, sometimes panicled ; 

 flowering heads 2-3 cm. in diameter; calyx about 1.5 mm. long, 5-toothed; 

 corolla about 3 mm. long; stamens pink, about 3 times as long as the corolla; 

 ovary pubescent; pod coiled or much curved, brown, 6-15 cm. long, 8-10 mm. 

 broad; seeds black, shining. 



Coppices and scrub-lands, throughout the archipelago from Abaco and Andros 

 to Mnriguana, Caicos, Inagua and the Anguilla Isles : Florida ; Cuba. BLACK-BEAD. 

 RAM'S-HOHN. 



3. Pithecolobium mucronatum Britton; Coker, in Shattuek, Bah. Isl. 254. 



1905. 



A shrub, about 2 m. high, the young twigs and peduncles sparingly pubes- 

 cent. Petiole 1 cm. long or less, longer than or equalling the stiff sharp 

 stipular spines, the gland stout-stalked; pinnae a single pair, stalked, each 

 bearing a single pair of leaflets, which are coriaceous, rather narrowly obovate, 

 1-2 cm. long, glabrous, bright green and shining above, dull beneath, the mid- 

 vein exeurreut; peduncles much longer than the upper leaves; flowering heads 

 about 1.5 cm. in diameter; calyx puberulent, its lobes ovate, acute; corolla 

 about 6 mm. long, puberulent, 2-3 times as long as the calyx; stamens about 

 12 mm. long. 



Coastal thickets, Long Island, near Clarence Harbor. Endemic. POINTED 

 CAT'S-CLAW. Catesby, 2 : pi. 9"!. 



The records by Schoepf and by Bentham of P. circinale (L.) Benth., a 

 plant of Hispaniola, as Bahamian, collected by Catesby, refer to this species. 



4. Pithecolobium bahamense Northrop, Mem. Torr. Club 12: 38. 1902. 



A shrub, 3 m. high or less, the branches slender, glabrous. Petioles 1-10 

 mm. long, bearing a stout-stalked gland at the summit; stipular spines sharp, 

 3-7 mm. long; pinnae a single pair; petiolules as long as the petioles or 

 shorter; leaflets 1 pair or sometimes 2 pairs, sessile, obliquely oblong, oblance- 

 olate or obovate, subcoriaeeous, 1-2.5 cm. long, glabrous, obtuse or mucronate 

 at the apex, shining above, dull beneath; peduncles 2-3 cm. long; flowering 

 heads 2-3 cm. in diameter; calyx about 2 mm. long, its 5 ovate teeth acute; 

 corolla about 4 mm. long, pink or crimson; stamens pink or crimson, 2-3 times 

 as long as the corolla; ovary puberulent; pod coiled or much curved, 8-12 cm. 

 long, about 1 cm. wide ; seeds black. 



Scrub-lands, pine-lands, savannas and coppices, Andros, New Providence and 

 Great Exuma : Cuba. BAHAMA CAT'S-CLAW. 



5. Pithecolobium Hystrix (A. Eich.) Benth. in Hook. Icon. PI. pi. 1168. 1876. 



Inga lijistrix A. Eich. Ess. Fl. Cub. 1: 471. 1845. 



Pithecolobium calliandriflorum C. Wright; Griseb. Cat. PI. Cub. 83. 1866. 



An intricately branched shrub, 0.5-2 m. high, the twigs very slender, but 

 stiff, puberulent or glabrate, the internodes mostly short. Stipular spines 

 acicular, 4-12 mm. long; petioles 1-6 mm. long; pinnae a single pair; petiolules 



