398 BIGNONIACEAE. 



[Macrocatalpa longIssima (Jaeq.) Britton (Catalpa longissima Jacq.) 

 is reported by Hitchcock from Cat Island, and a speeiment of the species so 

 labeled is in bis collections. We judge, however, that there is an error in this 

 report and in the labeling of the specimen, as Prof. Hitchcock admits the 

 possibility of error and does not remember the exact locality where the speci- 

 men may have been collected, nor could we find the tree in passing over his 

 exact route with the native who accompanied him. The Jamaica specimen 

 in his collection is a counterpart of the one labeled Cat Island. Prof. Eoth- 

 rock, who was with him, returns no specimen from Cat Island though his col- 

 lections contain a counterpart of Prof. Hitchcock's from Jamaica.] 



4. JACARANDA Juss. Gen. 138. 1789. 



Trees, with opposite, mostly bipinnate leaves, and showy panicled blue 

 or violet flowers. Calyx campanulate or tubular-campanulate, 5-toothed. Corolla 

 obliquely funnelform, the tube cylindric below, expanded above, the limb some- 

 what 2-lipped, with 5 spreading rounded lobes. Stamens 4, didynamous, 

 included; anthers glabrous; staminodium about as long as the stamens, clavate, 

 usually villous. Ovary 2-celled, sessile; ovules borne in 1 or 2 series. Capsule 

 oblong to suborbicular, compressed, loculicidally dehiscent, its flat valves cori- 

 aceous or ligneous. Seeds flat, winged. [Brazilian name.] About 20 species, 

 natives of tropical America, the following typical. 



> 1. Jacaranda coerulea (L.) Griseb. Fl. Br. W. I. 446. 1861. 



Bignonia coerulea L. Sp. PL 625. 1753. 



Jacaranda caroliniana Pers. Syn. 2: 174. 1806. 



Jacaranda baJiamensis R. Br. Bot. Mag. under pi. 2327. 1822. 



A tree, attaining a maximum height of about 12 m., the foliage glabrous. 

 Leaves evenly bipinnate, petioled, often 3 dm. long; pinnae 4-13 pairs, stalked; 

 leaflets 17-35, obliquely oblong, sessile, 1-2.5 cm. long, acutish at the apex, 

 narrowed at the base; panicle many-flowered, 1-2 dm. long, puberulent; 

 pedicels short; calyx puberulent, 5-6 mm. long, its teeth triangular, acute; 

 corolla puberulent, about 4 cm. long; capsule oval, glabrous, 4-6 cm. long, 

 emarginate. 



Scrub-lands and coppices, Andros, New Providence, Eleuthera, Cat Island, Great 

 Guana Cay, and Great Exuma : Cuba ; recorded from Martinique. Boxwood. Cancer- 

 tree. What o'clock. Catesby, 1 : pi. i2. 



5. CRESCENTIA L. Sp. PL 626. 1753. 



Trees, with glabrous simple alternate or fascicled leaves, and large, 

 solitary or clustered, lateral or axillary flowers. Calyx leathery, closed in bud, 

 2-parted or 5-cleft at anthesis. Corolla with a subcampanulate swollen tube 

 and an oblique lacerate or 5-lobed limb. Stamens 4, didynamous, included or 

 a little exserted ; anthers glabrous. Ovary 1-celled, sessile ; ovules many, on 

 2 parietal placentae. Fruit globose or ovoid, large, indehiscent, the shell 

 hard. Seeds numerous, wingless, compressed, borne on spongy placentae. 

 [Commemorates Petrus de Crescentius, a celebrated Italian, born in 1230.] 

 About 5 species, natives of tropical America, the following typical. 



1. Crescentia Cujete L. Sp. PL 626. 1753. 



A tree, attaining a maximum height of about 10 m., the trunk up to 2 

 dm. in diameter, with long spreading branches. Leaves spatulate to oblance- 



