138 Annals of the Carnegie Museum. 



314. Lonchocarpus latifolius (Willdenow) Humboldt, Bonpland, & 



Kunth. 



Amerimnum latifolium Willdenow, Species Plantarum, III (2), 1803, p. 909. 

 Dalbergia pentaphylla Poiret, Lamarck's Encyclopedie Methodique, Botanique, 



Supplement II, i8ri, p. 445. 

 Lonchocarpus pentaphyllus Humboldt, Bonpland, & Kunth, Nova Genera et 



Species Plantarum, VI, 1823, p. 383. 

 Lonchocarpus latifolius Humboldt, Bonpland, & Kunth, op. cit., p. 383. 

 Cytisus membranaceus Sesse & MogiNO, Flora Mexicana, Ed. II, p. 174. 



Near Nueva Gerona, April 24, 1904, A. H. Curtiss, No. 462; on 

 river bank at Sante Fe, May 24, 1910 (in full flower), 0. E. Jennings, 

 No. 565. General Distribution: Generally distributed in the West 

 Indies as far north as Cuba, and in continental America from Mexico 

 to Guiana. 



The specimens secured at Sante Fe were borne on a large spreading 

 tree about forty feet high, with rather light green foliage somewhat 

 resembling that of Fraxinns americana. The flowers borne in dense 

 racemes about two or three inches in length, were light yellow in 

 color and faintly but not very pleasantly scented. 



Note. Lonchocarpus sericeus Humboldt, Bonpland & Kunth, was 

 reported as growing in Cuba and the Isle of Pines by Achille Richard, 

 in Sagra, "Historia Fisica, Politica y Natural de la Isle de Cuba," 

 X, 1845, p. 179. The Isle of Pines was included in this distribution 

 on the basis of specimens collected there by Lanier in 1831. 



The writer is not satisfied that Lonchocarpus sericeus is properly 

 to be included in the list for the Isle of Pines. Richard's description 

 for that species is mainly as follows: Branches, petioles, and peduncles 

 densely tomentose-sericeous; leaflets 7-11, oval, acuminate, the base 

 obtuse, above pubescent, below densely tomentose-sericeous; racemes 

 terminal, numerous, as long as or longer than the leaves; petals 

 externally sericeous; legumes short, 1-3-seeded, densely fulvous- 

 velvety. 



315. Piscidia piscipula (Linnaeus) Sargent. 



Erylhrina piscipula Linn^us, Species Plantarum, II, Ed. I, I753. P- 707- 

 Piscidia erythrina Linn.^us, Systema Naturae, II, Ed. X, I759. P- ii55- 

 Ichthyomethia piscipula Hitchcock, Garden and Forest, IV, 1891, p. 472. 

 Piscidia piscipula Sargent, Garden and Forest, IV, 1891, p. 436. 



Northern part of the island, Blain, No. 159 (Millspaugh). General 

 Distribution: From Florida and the Bahamas south through the 

 West Indies, and from Mexico to northern South America. 



