258 CALYCIFLOR^. 



A shrub, about 5 feet in height : branches subterete, angu- 

 lated, with the angles aculeolato-muricated, coloured. Leaflets 

 rounded and mucronate at the apex : petiole muricated beneath. 

 Stipules lanceolate, deciduous. Peduncles striated, aculeolato- 

 muricated, elongating and becoming thicker as the fruit forms : 

 pedicels | an inch in length, slightly muricated. Flowers 

 small in proportion. Standard clawed, of a yellow colour ex- 

 ternally spotted with purple : wings oblong, free ; keel in 2 

 pieces, slightly cohering for a short distance beneath. Ovary 

 glabrous ; style curved : stigma obtuse. Legume 10-12 inches 

 in length, cylindrical, tumid at the situations of the seeds, glab- 

 rous, beaked with the persistent style, co-seeded : seeds oblong, 

 slightly compressed. 



This species approaches very nearly S. exasperata of 

 Kunth. 



XI. PiSCIDIA. 



Calyx campanulate, 5-fid. Keel obtuse. Stamens 

 monadelphous, with the tenth free at the base. Style 

 filiform, glabrous. Legume pedieelled, linear, fur- 

 nished with 4 longitudinal membranaceous wings, in- 

 terrupted with isthmi between the seeds. Seeds 

 oval, compressed : hilum lateral : embryo curved : 

 cotyledons elliptico-oblong, thickish : radicle hooked, 

 inflected. — De Cand. 



West- India trees, with the leaves impari-pinnate. — Name, 

 from Piscis a fish ; the bark, especially that of the root, being 

 employed in poisoning fish. 



1. Piscidia Erythrina. Common Dogwood, 

 Leaflets oblong or obovato-elliptic, racemes panicled 

 axillary, stipe of the legumes 3 times longer than the 

 calyx, wings interrupted. 



Coral arbor polyphylla non spinosa, fraxini folio siliqua alls 

 foliaceis exstantibus rotse molendinarise fluviatilis aucta, Sloane, 

 IL 39. t. 176. f. 45. — Ichthyomethia foliis pinnatis ovatis, ra- 

 cemis terminalibus, siliquis quadrialatis, Browne, 296 Pisci- 

 dia Erythrina, Swartz, Obs. 277. 



HAB. Common^ 



FL. June, July. 



A tree, usually about 20 feet in height. Leaflets 3-4-paired 

 with an odd one, petiolulated, oblong or obovato-elliptic, round- 

 ed at the base, entire, pubescent on both sides M'hen young, 

 but subglabrous when old. paler with minute white dots be- 

 neath. Racemes compound, axillary (terminal, Swartz:) ped- 

 uncle 8-gonal, puberulous ; divisions about an inch in length : 



