168 CONTRIBUTIONS FROM THE NATIONAL HERBARIUM. 



Cultivated and seemingly spontaneous near Bayamon; near Yabucoa; near Utuado, 

 at Salto Arriba; near Mayaguez. Florida Keys, Bahama (Dolley), Cuba, Jamaica, 

 Cayman (Hitchcock), Haiti, St. Thomas, St. Croix, St. Martin (Stockholm Herbarium), 

 St. Bartholomew (do.), St. Kitts, Antigua (Grisebach), Guadeloupe, Martinique, 

 St. Vincent, Barbados (Sloane), Grenada, Tobago, Trinidad (Grisebach). The plant 

 is also found in America, Asia, and Africa. Native country unknown. 



This elegant bush remains in flower all the year. In one variety the flowers are red , 

 in another yellow. The leaves, flowers, and seeds are largely used in native medicine. 



Local name, clavellina. Cuba, cuacamaya (Sagra); Jamaica, flower fence of Barbados 

 or wild senna or Spanish carnation (Sloane), Barbados pride (P. Brown, Macfadyen); 

 France, poinciade or fleurs de paradis (Jacquin); Haiti, poincellade (Jager, Buch); 

 Danish Islands, dudeldu (Eggers); Guadeloupe, baraguette (Duchassaing, Duss); Mar- 

 tinique, arrete-boiufs (Duss); Barbados, flower fence or Spanish carnation (Hughes); 

 Tobago, dudeldu (Eggers). 



25. MYROSPERMUM Jacq. 



Myrospermum Jacq. Enurn. PI. Carib. 4. 1760. 

 Calusia Bert.; DC. Prod. 2: 94. 1825, as section. 



Calyx inflexed-turbinate, with very short, wide, membranous teeth; standard 

 obovate, the 4 inferior petals free, almost alike, curved, lanceolate, acute; stamens 

 free, persistent, with long filaments and small anthers; ovary stipitate, 2 to many- 

 seeded; style subulate, almost straight, with a small terminal stigma; pod stipitate, 

 compressed, indehiscent, with one seed at the apex, narrowed to the base, 2-winged, 

 the wing of the upper suture broader than that of the lower; seeds oblong. Tree with 

 imparipinnate leaves; leaflets with pellucid lines and dots; flowers rather large, in 

 terminal racemes. 



1. Myrospermum frutescens Jacq. 



(Urban, 279.) 



A small tree, 3 to 5 meters high or a large one 20 meters high; leaflets 5 to 7-jugate, 

 2 to 2.5 cm. long, membranaceous, oblong or oval, roundish, retuse or blunt at the 

 apex, glabrous, striate with pellucid lines; flowers white, the standard striped in the 

 middle with green; legume 5 to 7.5 cm. long (including the wing), as broad as the wing, 

 which tapers at the base into a short stalk. 



Cultivated and seemingly wild near Coamo; near Penuelas, near Utuado, in a thicket 

 of Coffea arabica at San Andres; near Mayaguez. St. Croix (Eggers). Native countr" 

 Trinidad,- Central America, Colombia, Venezuela. 



Local names, cereipo, sercipo. 



26. ORMOSIA Jacks. 



Ormosia Jacks. Trans. Linn. Soc. 10: 360. pis. 25, 27. 1811. 

 Macrotropis DC. Prod. 2: 98. 1825. 



Calyx campanulate with the 2 upper teeth subconnate and usually longer and wider, 

 often incurved; petals unguiculate; standard suborbicular or cordate; wings obliqu<\ 

 obovate-oblong; keel with the petals free; stamens free, unequal, all or all but one or 

 two perfect; anthers versatile; ovary subsessile, biovulate or multiovulate; style 

 filiform, involute at the apex; stigma introrse, lateral; pod oblong or more rarely 

 linear, usually short, compressed, coriaceous, fleshy or woody, 2-valved, continuous or 

 septate between the seeds; seeds obovate or oblong, rather thick, shiny, scarlet or 

 spotted with black. Trees with imparipinnate or abruptly pinnate leaves: leaflets 

 coriaceous; flowers white, lilac, or blackish purple in terminal, more rarely axillary, 

 panicles, sometimes in racemes. 



