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food. From the roots in Cuba and Haiti an emetic is made, and a remedy used for 

 rheumatism is procured by boiling the leaves. The wood is sometimes used as a dye, 

 but chiefly as a substitute for the true red sandalwood. The heartwood is red, hard, 

 closegrained, durable, and strong, and is used for house building and cabinet making. 

 Local names, coralitas, mato, mato Colorado, palo de inato, peronilas. 



12. PIPTADENIA Benth. 



Piptadenia Benth. Hook. Journ. Bot. 4: 334. 1842. 

 Schleinitzia Warb. Engl. Bot. Yahrb. 13: 336. 1891. 



Flowers sessile, 5-merous; calyx campanulate, shortly toothed; corolla connate to 

 the middle; stamens 10, free, exserted; ovary subsessile; ovules 3 to many; legume 

 stipitate, rarely sessile, broadly linear, flat, membranaceous or subcoriaceous, 2-valved, 

 the valves continuous, without pulp; seeds compressed; funiculus filiform. Trees or 

 shrubs, unarmed or aculeate; leaves bipinnate; leaflets small, multijugate, rarely large 

 and paucijugate; flowers small, white or greenish, cylindrically spicate or globose- 

 capitate, solitary or fascicled, axillary or panicled at the extremities. 



1. Piptadenia peregrina (L.) Benth. 

 (Urban, 269.) 



Shrub 4 meters high or tree 20 meters high, unarmed; pinnae 15 to 30-jugate, leaflets 

 30 to 80-jugate, minute, 2 to 4 mm. long, 1 to 1.5 mm. wide, linear, glabrescent; petiole 

 puberulous, bearing a gland above the base; flower heads white, small; calyx 1.5 mm. 

 long; corolla 3.5 mm. long; legume 5 to 15 cm. long, 1.5 cm. broad, subcoriaceous, 2- 

 valved. 



Near Bayamon, in mountain woods at Toa Baja; near Aibonito, on slopes near Buena 

 Vista de la Plata; near Sabana Grande, on the Estero River; near Cabo Rojo, toward 

 Guanajibo; near Mayaguez; near Rincon, at Barrio del Pasto; Manati, in thickets near 

 Garrochales. Haiti, Dominica, St. Vincent (Grisebach), Trinidad (Bentham). Trop- 

 ical America: Brazil, provinces of Rio Janeiro, Minas Geraes, Goyaz, and Rio Negro; 

 Guiana, Venezuela. 



Local names, cojobana, cojoba, cojobillo, cojobo. 



13. ENTADA Adans. 



Entada Adans. Fam. 2: 318. 1763. 



Flowers spicate, 5-merous, sessile or shortly pedicellate; calyx campanulate, toothed 

 or deltoid-lobate; petals free or coherent at base, oblong-lanceolate or linear, valvate; 

 stamens 10, usually exserted, the anthers elliptical or roundish with a terminal cadu- 

 cous gland; pollen-grains indefinite; ovary subsessile, multiovulate; style filiform; 

 stigma terminal, truncate, concave; legume straight, sometimes of enormous size; 

 seeds flattened, exalbuminous; testa with a central areole. Trees or climbing shrubs, 

 unarmed; leaves bipinnate, the number of pinnae and of leaflets very variable; spikes 

 solitary or fascicled from the upper axils, or panicled at the extremities; hermaphro- 

 dite or polygamous. 



1. Entada polyphylla Benth. 



(Urban, 269.) 



A large shrub 5 meters high; pinnae 4 to 8-jugate; leaflets 12 to 20-jugate, linear- 

 oblong, obtuse, retuse, clothed beneath with short adpressed hairs; spikes numerous 

 in terminal racemes, rachis and petioles puberulent; legume 7.5 cm. long. 



