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1. Orxnosia krugii Urb. 



(Urban, 280.) 



Tree 10 to 25 meters high; leaves 7 to 9-foliolate; petioles 20 cm. long; leaflets 7 to 

 15 mm. long, petiolulate,'oval or oval-elliptical, obovate or ovate, rounded or truncate 

 at the top, rounded or subtruncate at the base, 7 to 25 cm. long, 3.5 to 14 cm. wide, 

 coriaceous, upper surface glabrous, lower surface with minute adpressed hairs; inflores- 

 cence sometimes 35 cm. long, axillary or terminal, paniculate or subcorymbose; calyx 

 10 mm. long, pilose; petals dark violet; standard suborbicular, 12 mm. wide, spotted 

 with white or pale yellow; wings oblique, obovate-cuneate; keel petals free, oblique, 

 oblong, 13 to 14 mm. long; ovary 4 to 6-ovulate; pod 10 cm. long, 2 cm. wide, con- 

 stricted between the seeds; seeds suborbicular or obovate-orbicular, 10 to 12 mm. 

 long, 6 to 9 mm. thick, carmine-red or spotted with black. 



In the primeval woods near Bayamon; near Juncos, on Mount Guvuy; Sierra de las 

 Piedras, on Mount Frances; near Yabucoa, on Mount Piedra Azul at Jacana and on 

 Mount Cerro Gordo; near Adjuntas, on Mount Andubo and Mount Cedro; near Utuado, 

 at Roncador; in Sierra de Lares at Guajataea. Dominica at Castle Bruce. 



Local names, matos or palo de matos, peronia. 



27. SOPHORA L. 



Sophora L. Sp. PI. 1: 373. 1753. 



Calyx teeth short; standard obovate or orbicular, erect or spreading; wings oblong, 

 oblique; keel oblong, nearly straight, its petals usually imbricate or coherent along 

 the back; stamens perigynous or nearly hypogynous, free or rarely slightly connate 

 at the base; anthers versatile; ovary short-stalked, multiovulate; style incurved; 

 stigma minute, terminal; pod moniliform, terete or slightly compressed, coriaceous 

 and indehiscent in our species; cotyledons thick, the radicle sometimes straight and 

 short, sometimes longer and inflexed. Trees or shrubs with imparipinnate leaves; 

 leaflets sometimes small and numerous, sometimes few and large, often with stipels; 

 flowers white, rarely a bluish- violet, in simple terminal racemes, these sometimes 

 aggregated in panicles. 



1. Sophora tomentosa L. 



(Urban, 280.) 



A robust, erect shrub, 2 to 3 meters high, the branches densely argenteous; petiole 

 2.5 cm. long; rachis 5 to 10 cm. long; leaflets 15 to 19, nearly sessile, oblong, 4 to 5 cm. 

 long, slightly mucronate, the base slightly rounded, subcoriaceous, both sides densely 

 and permanently coated with adpressed gray-silvery torn en turn; flowers in lax 12 to 

 30-flowered axillary and terminal racemes; pedicels 0.6 to 1.2 cm. long, argenteous, 

 with a lanceolate or linear bract at the base; calyx campanulate, 6 to 8 mm. deep, 

 subtruncate, argenteous; corolla, bright yellow, 1.8 cm. deep; pod 12.5 to 15 cm. long, 

 with 5 to 8 coriaceous segments 6 to 8 mm. thick, connected by narrow necks. 



Near Guanica, at Salinas; near Mayaguez in coast districts toward Guanajibo. 

 Bermuda (Hemsley), South Florida (Chapman), Bahama (Hitchcock), Cuba, Jamaica, 

 Haiti, St. Thomas, St. Croix (Eggers), Antigua (Grisebach), Guadeloupe (do.), Marie 

 Galante, Martinique, St. Lucia, St. Vincent, Union (Kew Bull. no. 81, p. 248). A 

 cosmopolitan of the Tropics, often found on the seashore. 



