196 CONTRIBUTIONS FROM THE NATIONAL HERBARIUM. 



3. Lonchocarpus latifolius (Willd.) H. B. K. 

 (Urban, 297.) 



Tree 6 to 20 meters high; leaflets 5 to 9, oval-oblong, acuminate, paler and minutely 

 puberulous beneath, or glabrescent, 5 to 15 cm. long, 2.5 to 5 cm. wide, subcoriaceous; 

 inflorescence densely racemose, 7.5 to 12 cm. long, many-flowered; calyx 2.2 mm. deep; 

 flowers purple, 8.5 to 11 mm. deep; standard thinly silky; pod oblong or broadly linear, 

 5 to 7.5 cm. long, 1.7 to 2.1 cm. broad, 1 or 2-seeded, not at all, or somewhat constricted 

 between the seeds, flat, thin, glabrescent. 



Near Bayamon, in woods at Palo Seco; Sierra de Luquillo in the woods on Mount 

 Jimenez; near Quebradillas on the bank of the river; near Manati in thickets on the 

 coast, and at Abra de los Muertos. Cuba (Wright), Jamaica, Haiti, St. Kitts, Guade- 

 loupe, Dominica, Martinique (Sieber), St. Lucia, St. Vincent, Trinidad. Common 

 also in the adjoining parts of South America. Central America to Nicaragua. The 

 hard wood is used in making furniture (Cook and Collins, p. 178.) 



Local names, palo hediondo, forte ventura. 



49. PISCIDIA L. 



Piscidia L. Syst. ed. 10. 2: 1155. 1759. 



Calyx subcampanulate, with the teeth short and wide, the two upper ones slightly 

 adhering; standard orbicular; wings oblong-falcate, adhering to the obtuse keel; petals 

 of the keel cohering along the back; upper stamen free at the base, united with the 

 others at the middle in a closed tube; ovary sessile with numerous seeds; style reflexed, 

 filiform, the stigma small, terminal; pod linear, flat, each suture widening into 2-veined 

 wings; seeds ovate, compressed. Tree with imparipinnate leaves; leaflets opposite; 

 flowers white and blood-red, in short panicles; bracts opposite on the pedicel, subel- 

 liptic, subcoriaceous, caducous. 



J. Piscidia piscipula (L.) Sarg. 

 (Urban, 297.) 



Tree 20 meters high; leaflets 3 to 5-jugate, pubescent or glabrescent, oblong or ellip- 

 tical, pointed or blunt; flowers. 1.2 to 1.6 cm. long; wings each 1.2 to l.(i cm. broad, 

 transversely striate, lacerate or repand; legume 5 to 10 cm. long, 8 mm. broad, puberu- 

 lous; seeds 6 to 8, transversely oblong, black, 7 mm. long. 



In thickets and foresls on the coasl near Fajardo and near Salinas do Cabo Rojo. 

 South Florida (Chapman), Florida Keys (Sargent), Bahama (Grisebaeh), Jamaica, 

 Haiti, St. Thomas, St. Croix, Si. John (Eggers), St. Martin (Stockholm Herbarium), 

 St. Bartholomew (do.), Antigua (Grisebaeh), Guadeloupe, St. Lucia (Grisebaeh), St. 

 Vincent, Barbados, Grenada, South Mexico. Southern parts of North America. 



Local name, ventura. 



50. ANDIRA Lam. 



Vbuacapoua Aubl. Hist, PI. Gui. 2: Suppl. 9. /*/. 878. 1775. 

 Andira Lam. Encyc 1: 171. L783. 



Calyx broadly campanulate or subturbinate, truncate, with short indistinct teeth; 

 petals clawed; standard suborbicular; wings and petals of the keel nearly straight, oblong, 

 obtuse, the latter imbricate but not connate on the hack; upper stamen free, or rarely 

 connate with the rest; ovary stipitate or rarely sessile, 2 to 1- (rarely 1-) ovulate; style 

 short, incurved; stigma small, terminal; pod drupaceous, ovoid or obovoid, often some- 



