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i'ioral raceaes 1£ to 16 flowered, either terminal or issuing 

 from the old wood of the trunk and limbs. Peduncles brac- 

 teate, thick, Ci to 4 om. long; flowers ijedicellate about 6 

 om. lon^; pedicels 6 to 10 mm. long, jjrovided with a small 

 bract at the base and bearing at the tip 2 obovate bract- 

 lets, about 12 mm. long, glabrous, connate at the base; ca- 

 lyx tube 1 cm. long, short stipitate; sepals 4, ovate-ellip- 

 tio, imbricate, about 2 cm. long and 6 mm. broad, glabrous. 

 Petal single, unguiculste, elliptic-lanceolate, nearly 4 cm. 

 long and IE mm. broad, frilled and irregular on the margin, 

 pinkish white, very caducAus. Stamens 3, included or hardly 

 exserted; pistil 47 to 50 mm, long, the ovary stipitate, 

 5-cvulate; style pubescent at the base, capitellate. Legume 

 woody, stipitate, 12 to 16 cm. long, 4 to 5 cm. bread, de- 

 hiscent by the rolling up of the valves; seeds 4 to 5, ovate, 

 flat, 3.5 cm. long and 2.5 cm. broad. 



Description of the wood 



Sapwood thick, very light brown; heartv/ood dark reddish 

 brown. V/ood rather soft, moderately heavy, rather strong, 

 coarse grained, easily worked, splits readily, taking a mo- 

 derately good polish, and is durable in contact with the 

 soil. Annual rings of growth clearly visible under high 

 power microscope. 



Pores (transverse section) not very numerous, large 

 (.24 mm. in diameter), round, open in sapwood, but generally 

 closed in heartwood with dark reddish tyloses, and arranged 

 singly or occasionally in short radial rows of from c to 4. 

 Vessel walla ( loiagitudinal section) in contact v;ith ray cells 

 and wood-parenchyma fibers have numerous, very small bordered 

 i^its, or sometimes on radial side large elliptioal simple 

 pits, Perforatioha simple, large and circular, ifood fibers 

 about l.iy9 m.m. long, with relatively thick walls, fairly 

 large cell cavities, and few rather large bordered pits, 

 V/ood parenchyma copiously developed and arranged chiefly 

 around veaeela, and frequently forming tangential lines be- 

 tween two or more pores. Rays numerous, very small, barely 

 visible under the hand lens, usually 1 cell wide, rarely 2, 

 and from a few to 12 or 16 cells high. 



Distribution, comT.on names and uses 

 Zarsten discovered this showy tree in the coast mountain 



