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FABACEAE. 



Ttrtiu Wbenua (L.) DC. referred to by Dolley has not been returned from the 

 islands by any of our expeditions. It is native of Jamaica and Cuba. The record 

 probably applies to Peru bumeliaefolia, locally called Black Ebony. 



Erythrina corallodendron L. Recorded for the Bahamas by Catesby, by 

 Dollev and l>v Mrs. Northrop is known to us only as planted on New Providence. 

 Catesby, 2: pi. 49. 



Erythrina velutina Willd. was observed planted at West End, Great Bahama. 



Foliage of a species of Lonchocarpus was collected from a tree growing 

 near an old house at Deep Creek, Andros. 



Order 13. GERANIALES. 



Herbs, shrubs or trees, usually with petals, and these separate (wanting 

 in most Euphorbiaceae, and in some species of Zanthoxylum in Rutaceae) ; 

 sepals mostly distinct; stamens few, rarely more than twice as many as 

 the sepals, opposite them when as many; ovary superior, mostly compound; 

 ovules pendulous, the raphe toward the axis of the ovary. 



Petals present, usually as many as the sepals. 

 Flowers regular or very nearly so. 



Tissues of the plant devoid of secreting cells or 

 Filaments united below or at the base. 

 Stamens twice as many as the sepals. 

 Petals unappendaged ; leaves com- 

 pound. 

 Petals appendaged : leaves simple. 

 Stamens as many as the sepals. 

 Filaments separate. 



Styles united ; leaves mostly compound. 

 Styles separate ; leaves simple. 

 Tissues of the plant with secreting cells or 

 glands. 

 Leaves punctate. 

 Leaves not punctate. 

 Carpels separate. 

 Carpels united. 



Filaments separate. 



Trees or shrubs with bitter, oil- 

 bearing bark. 

 Resiniferous trees and shrubs. 

 Filaments united. 

 Flowers very irregular ; petals 3 ; stamens 

 mostly 8. 

 Flowers often apetalous, monoecious ; carpels most- 

 ly 3. 



glands. 



Fam. 1. Oxalidaceae. 



Fam. 2. Erythroxylaceae. 



Fam. 3. Linaceae. 



Fam. 4 Zygophyllaceah. 



Fam. 5? 1 Malpighiaceae. 



Fam. 6. Rutaceae. 

 Fam. 7. Suriaxaceae. 



Fam. 8. Simaroubaceae. 

 Fam. 9. Burseraceae. 

 Fam. 10. Meliaceae. 



Fam. 11. Polygalaceae. 



Fam. 12. Euphorbiaceae. 



Family 1. OXALIDACEAE Lindl. 



"Wood-sorrel Family. 



Leafy-stemmed or acaulescent herbs, or rarely shrubs, often with root- 

 stocks, or scaly bulbs, the sap sour. Leaves mostly palmately 3-foliolate, 

 in some tropical species pinnate, or entire and peltate; stipules commonly 

 present as scarious expansions of the petiole-bases; leaflets mostly obcor- 

 date. Flowers perfect, in umbel-like or forking cymes, or sometimes 

 solitary ; peduncles mostly long. Sepals 5, often unequal. Petals 5, white, 

 pink, purple or yellow. Stamens 10-15, sometimes unequal. Ovary 5- 

 celled, 5-lobed; styles coherent or distinct; ovules 2-many in each cavity; 

 fruit a loculicidal globose or columnar capsule, rarely baccate. Embryo 



