158 MIMOSACEAE. 



Stamens numerous, more than twice as many as the corolla-lobes, the filaments 

 united below into a tube. Ovary sessile or short-stalked; style slender or 

 filiform ; ovules several or numerous. Pods flat, linear or oblong, the valves 

 separating from the continuous margins. Seeds transverse, flattened. [Greek, 

 referring to the separating of the pod-valves from the margins.] About 10 

 species of tropical and subtropical America. Type species: Lysiloma bahamen- 

 sis Benth. 



Leaflets few, obovate-oval ; stipules obovate ; pod obtuse. 1. L. Sabieu. 



Leaflets many, oblong or lanceolate; stipules ovate; pod acute. 2. L. bahamensis. 



1. Lysiloma Sabieu Benth. Kew Jour. Bot. 6: 236. 1854. . 



Acacia latisiliqua paucifoliola DC. Prodr. 2: 467. 1825. 



Acacia formosa A. Eich. Ess. Fl. Cub. 463. 1845. Not Kunth. 1822. 



Lysiloma formosa Hitchc. Rep. Mo. Bot.Gard. 4: 83. 1893. 



Lysiloma paucifoliola Hitchc; Northrop, Mem. Torr. Club. 12: 38. 1902. 



A tree, attaining in Cuban forests a height of 60 m. or more, usually much 

 smaller, the gray bark somewhat scaly, the slender twigs glabrous. Stipules 

 obovate, rounded; leaves 1-2 dm. long, the petiole bearing a small circular 

 gland; pinnae 2-4 pairs; leaflets 3-7 pairs, oval or obovate, 1-2.5 em. long, 

 rounded at the apex, rounded or narrowed at the base, glabrous, reticulate- 

 veined, short-petioled; heads about 1.5 em. in diameter, solitary and long- 

 peduncled in the axils; flowers greenish white; calyx about 1 mm. long; corolla 

 about twice as long as the calyx, its lobes villous above; stamens 15-20, 2-3 

 times as long as the corolla; pod oblong, 7-15 cm. long, 2-3 cm. wide, rounded 

 at the apex; seeds brown, flat, 6-10 mm. long. 



Coppices and scrub-lands, Andros, New Providence, Eleuthera, Great Guana 

 Cay, Great Exuma and Fortune Island : Cuba ; Hispaniola. Horseflesh. Sabicu. 



J ^C 2. Lysiloma bahamensis Benth. Lond. Jour. Bot. 3: 82. 1844. 



Acacia bahamensis Griseb. Fl. Br. W. I. 221. 1860. 



Lysiloma latisiliqua A. Gray; Sauv. Anales Acad. Habana 5: 406. 1869. 



A tree, attaining a maximum height of about 16 m. with a trunk up to 1 

 m. in diameter, the smooth, gray bark splitting into scales, the branches spread- 

 ing, the twigs slender, glabrous; stipules ovate, acuminate; leaves 8-14 cm. 

 long, the petiole bearing a large gland near the lowest pair of pinnae ; pinnae 

 2-5 pairs, 3-8 em. long; leaflets 10-33 pairs, oblong or oblong-lanceolate, 

 sessile, 8-15 mm. long, obtuse at the apex, unequally rounded at the base, 

 glabrous; heads 1.5-2 cm. in diameter, racemose, globose, on peduncles 2-4 cm. 

 long; flowers white, mostly perfect; calyx campanulate, about 1 mm. long; 

 corolla twice as long as the calyx, its lobes reflexed ; stamens about 20, twice as 

 long as the corolla; pod linear-oblong, 8-15 em. long, 2-2.5 cm. wide, nearly 

 straight, pointed; seeds flat, about 12 mm. long, dark brown, shining. 



Coppices and scrub-lands, Abaco and Great Bahama throughout the archipelago 

 to Caicos and Inagua : Florida ; Cuba ; Yucatan. Wild Tamarind. 



4. ANNESLIA Salisb. Parad. Lond. pi. 64. 1807. 



Shrubs, or small trees, with bipinnate leaves and capitate flowers, the heads 

 peduncled, axillary, or in terminal racemes. Calyx 5-toothed or 5-lobed. 

 Corolla funnelform or campanluate, 5-lobed, the petals being united to the mid- 

 dle or above the middle. Stamens numerous; filaments united below, long-ex- 



