124 Annals of the Carnegie Museum. 



to Brazil, and introduced into most of the West Indian islands, 

 where it has sparingly escaped from cultivation. The tree is of 

 considerable value as a shade tree and also for the pods, which furnish 

 good food for cattle. 



281. Pithecolobium tortum Martins. 



Pithecolobium tortum Martius, Herbarium, Flora Brasiliensis, 1837, p. 114. 

 Pithecolobium Vincentis Bentham, London Journal of Botany, III, 1844, p. 222. 



Northern part of the island, Blain, No. 120. (Millspaugh) ; on grav- 

 elly soil east of Nueva Gerona, May 6, 1910, 0. E. Jennings, No. 66. 

 Near site formerly occupied by a homestead and probably planted. 

 General Distribution: Western Cuba, Isle of Pines, St. Vincent, 

 Martinique, and in Central and South America. 



282. Pithecolobium obovale Wright. 



Pithecolobium obovale Wright, in Sauvalle, Anales de la Academia de Ciencias 

 Medicas, Fisicas y Naturales de la Habana, V, 1868, no. 36. 



Inga obovalis A. Richard, in Sagra, Histoire Physique, Politique et Naturelle de 

 rile de Cuba, I, 1845, p. 472. 



Calliandra revoluta Grisebach, Catalogus Plantarum Cubensium, 1866, p. 83. 



Near Nueva Gerona, February 7, 1904, A. H. Curtiss; along bank 

 of Casas River, south of Nueva Gerona, May 12, 1910, 0. E. Jennings, 

 No. 2og; near Caleta Grande, "South Coast," May 22, 1910, 0. E. 

 Jennings, No. 6g4. General Distribution: Cuba and the Isle of Pines. 



283. Lysiloma Sabicu Bentham. Sabicu. 



Lysiloma Sabicu Bentham, Journal of Botany and Kew Garden Miscellany, VI, 



1854, p. 236. 

 Acacia latisiliqua var. paucifolia DeCandolle, Prodromus Systematis Naturalis 



Regni Vegetabilis, II, 1825, p. 467. 

 Acacia formosa A. Richard, in Sagra, Historia Fisica, Politica y Natural de la Isla 



de Cuba, X, 1845, P- 205. 

 Leucana formosa Grisebach, Catalogus Plantarum Cubensium, 1866, pp. 82 and 



284. 

 Lysiloma formosa Hitchcock, Report Missouri Botanical Garden, 1893, p. 83. 



Near Nueva Gerona, January 8 and April 13, 1904, A. H. Curtiss, 

 No. 278; bushy tree about thirty feet high, at west base of Caballos 

 Mts., May 10, 1910, 0. E. Jennings, No. 186; near Los Indios, No- 

 vember 4, 1912, G. A. Link. General Distribution: Bahamas, Cuba. 

 Isle of Pines, and Santo Domingo. 



