PERKINS THE LEGUMINOSAE OF PORTO Rl( '< >. 193 



Dalbergia hecastophyllum (L.) Taub., a plant common in maritime thickets, lias 

 solitary leaflets, 10 stamens, and a pod that is nearly round, while the only other 

 Porto Rican species, D. monetaria, has 3 to 5 leaflets, 9 stamens, and an oblong pod. 



Local names, maray-maray , polo de polio. 



2. Dalbergia monetaria L. f. 



(Urban, 295.) 



Shrub 2 to 4 meters high; stems firm, woody, wide climbing; leaves 15 to 17 cm. 

 long; leaflets 8 to 13 cm. long, 4 to 5.5 cm. wide; flowers in small panicles in the axils 

 of the leaves, 1.5 to 3 cm. long; calyx 5 mm. deep, green; corolla more than twice as 

 long as the calyx, white or yellow-white; anthers yellow, becoming brown; mature 

 fruit brown. 



Near Bayamon in mountain thickets and woods; Sierra de Luquillo, in the woods 

 between Mavi and Mount Jimenez; near Juncos on the river bank; near Hato Grande, 

 on the shady river bank opposite Mount Gregorio; near Yabucoa, on the edge of the 

 forests at Jacana, in primeval forests at Guayavota, and in La Pandura at Santa Elena; 

 near Aibonito; near Utuado, on the edge of the primeval forest at San Andres and in 

 copses on the Rio Grande River at Saltillo Arriba; near Maricao in mountain woods; 

 near Sabana Grande in the woods near the cataract of Estero River; near Mayaguez. 

 Cuba (Grisebach), Haiti, Guadeloupe, Martinique, St. Vincent, Grenada, Trinidad. 

 Tropical America, north Brazil, Cayenne, Surinam, British Guiana. 



Local names, palo de brasilete, membrillo. 



46. DREPANOCARPUS G. F. W. Mey. 



Drepanocarpus G. F. W. Mey. Prim. Fl. Esseq. 236. 1818. 

 Nephrosis Rich.; DC. Prod. 2: 420. 1825. 

 Orucaria Juss.; DC. loc. cit. 



Calyx campanulate, obtuse at the base, truncate at the apex, the teeth short; 

 standard broadly ovate or orbicular, on the outside silky; wings oblong, often falcate; 

 keel incurved, its petals connate at the back; stamens all connate in a sheath slit 

 above, or both above and below, or more rarely the upper one free; ovary short- 

 stalked, 1- (rarely 2-) ovulate; style slender, incurved; stigma small, terminal; pod 

 falcate or suborbicular, compressed, thick -leathery, the upper suture intruse, the 

 lower very much arched, with 1 large, reniform, compressed seed. Erect tree or high- 

 climbing shrub; leaves imparipinnate; leaflets usually alternate; stipules often spinous; 

 flowers small or moderately large, purple, violet, or white; racemes short, fascicled or 

 branched, axillary or in terminal panicles; bracts small, caducous; bracteoles under 

 the calyx orbicular, persistent. 



1. Drepanocarpus lunatus (L. f.) G. F. W. Mey. 



(Urban, 296.) 



An erect bush or small tree 2 to 3 meters high, with firm glabrous branches and with 

 sharp, subfalcate spines from the nodes; petioles short; rachis 5 to 10 cm. long; leaflets 

 5 to 11, short-stalked, oblanceolate or oblong, 3.5 to 5 cm. long, blunt, rigidly coria- 

 ceous, both sides glabrous, the veins slightly raised; panicles copious, axillary and 

 terminal; calyx glabrous, 6 mm. deep; corolla lilac, 6.5 to 8.5 mm. deep; pod 1.8 cm. 

 broad, curved round so that the point touches the base, subligenous, the curve :', to 

 3.5 cm. broad; pedicel 6 mm. long. 



Near Bayamon, in the forest at Palo Seco; near Los Mameyes, in the Manglar swamp 

 at La Carmelita; near Humacao, in littoral thickets near Punta Candela; near Maun- 

 abo, in thickets at Punta de Tuna; near Mayaguez. Haiti, St. Thomas, St. Croix 



