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or nearly straight, the obtuse petals slightly cohering along the back; upper stamen 

 free at the base, sometimes united with the others in a closed tube; ovary more or less 

 stalked, biovulate or multiovulate; style filiform; stigma small, terminal; pod oblong 

 or elongated, membranous or coriaceous, flat, indehiscent, the style scar terminal, 

 persistent, sutures not winged but the upper sometimes laterally dilated; Beeds 1 or 2, 

 rarely more, flat, almost reniform or orbicular. Trees or woody climbers; leaves 

 imparipinnate; leaflets opposite, rarely with stipels; stipules small, narrow; flower- 

 violet, purple, or white, in simple racemes or raceme-like panicles, usually in pairs 

 or clusters along the rachis; bracts and bracteoles usually small, deciduous, more 

 rarely persistent. 



KEY TO THE SPECIES. 



Flowers usually in pairs along the rachis; leaflets glabrous; stand- 

 ard usually sericeous on the outer surface; pod oblong or linear, 

 the upper suture, especially near the seeds, with a projecting 

 ridge; flowers rose-colored. 



Standard callous or auriculate at the base; leaflets 7 to 11. 



(Section Neuroscaphi Benth.) 1. L. domingensis'. 



Standard not callous or auriculate at the base; leaflets 5 or 7. 2. L. glaucifolms. 

 Flowers many, usually small; standard glabrous or thinly silky 

 on the outer surface; sutures of the pod not dilated or thick- 

 ened. (Section Densiplori Benth.) 3. L. latifolius. 



1. Lonchocarpus dorningensis (Pers.) DC. 

 (Urban, 296.) 



Tree 15 meters high, young branches brown-tomentose becoming glabrous; leaves 

 17 to 19 cm. long; petiole about 3 cm. long; leaflets 7 to 11, most frequently 7, oval 

 or oblong, 5 to 12 cm. long, 2.5 to 5 cm. broad, coriaceous, glabrous on both sides, 

 the apex shortly acuminate, cuneate at the base; flowers in axillary racemes, pale 

 violet to rose-colored, in clusters of 2 on a short branchlet, with a space between; 

 racemes about 20 cm. long; pedicels 3 mm. long; calyx 6 mm. long, brown-tomentose; 

 standard 1.4 mm. long, orbicular, the outside silky; pod usually 2 or3-seeded, 5 to 10 

 cm. long, at the seeds about 2 cm. wide, constricted between the seeds, compressed, 

 almost woody, slightly brown-tomentose or glabrous. 



Near Guayanilla, close to the bank of the river at Los Indios; near Guanica, by 

 the river at Barinas; near Cabo Rojo, around Hacienda Garcia; near Mayaguez. 

 Jamaica (Bentham), Haiti, Guadeloupe, Martinique. 



2. Lonchocarpus glaucifolius Urb. 

 (Urban, 297.) 



Shrub with climbing branches or tree 5 to 8 meters high; leaves 5 or 7-foliolate; leaf- 

 lets elliptical or elliptical-oblong, rounded at the apex or shortly and obtusely acu- 

 minate, obtuse or rounded at the base, 4 to 13 mm. long, 2 to 7 cm. wide, glabrous, veins 

 on the upper surface impressed; inflorescence C to 14-flowered, in lax racemes; calyx 4 

 mm. deep; flowers rose-colored; standard orbicular, 12 to 15 mm. long; wings 4 mm. 

 wide; pod linear or broadly linear, 6 to 14 cm. long, 1 to 1.5 cm. wide, 2 to 7-seeded, 

 coriaceous; seeds oval -reniform, 9 mm. long, 5 mm. wide, dark brown. 



In the primeval mountain forests near Rincon at Calvache; near Aguada on Mount 

 Piedra Blanca and in the mountain forests at Rio Grande; near Aguadilla, in t he moun- 

 tains at Espinal; near Quebradillas at Cano Grande. Indigenous. 



Local name. geno. 



