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liazarene Trae 



Peltogyne purp urea Pit tier 



D escription of the tree 



Large, low branched, quite glabrous, with a smooth, 

 grayish baric and an elongated crown; branchlets slender, pur- 

 plish. Leaves deciduous; stipules membranous, crescent-like, 

 acuminate, caducous; leaflets l-ju£;ate, briefly petiolulate; 

 stipels thread-like, very caducous; i^etiolules 3 to 4 m;a. 

 long; leaflets unequilateral, falcate, narrow, obliquely 

 rounded at the base, acuminate, b.o. to 6.5 cm. long;, 2.5 

 to 3 cm. broad, ^lowers net known. Leguae pedicellate, 

 semiorbiculate, thin and smooth on the margin, mucrcnate at 

 the tip, 1-seeded, 3 cm. long, 1.6 cm. broad; seed obliquely 

 ovate, depressed, the fuaicle broadened into a salver- 

 shaped aril. 



3c far no flowering specimens of this tree have been 

 collected. The blossoms are said to be white. The fruits 

 remain on the trees long after their maturation and the 

 seeds, when freed by the opening of the valves, continue to 

 adhere to the valves through the funicle, reaching the 

 ground only, as it seems, when the condition are favorable 

 to insure ^-ermination. 



Descrijjt i o n of the vvo od 



o^pwood thick and nearly white; heartwood purple streaked 

 with darker or lighter shades of same. V/ood very hard, heavy, 

 strong, tough, fine-grained and often cross-grained, taking 

 a very beautiful x^olish. It is difficult to split and work. 

 Annual rings of growth not clearly visible even uiider the 

 hand lens. 



Pores (transverse section) not very numerous, small 

 (about .IS mm. in diameter), round or slightly radially ellip- 

 tical, ustially closed or plugged up at regular intervals in 

 the vessels, and arranged singly or in pairs. Vessel walls 

 (longitudinal section) with numerous small round somewhat 



