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hollow gild filled -tite- an oily liquid. It is said that such 

 trees often burst with a loud report under the pressure of 

 the latter. The same Si)ecies ocours on the northern litto- 

 ral plains of Colombia, where it is known in some parts 

 under the name of lomo de caiman. 



Darien ned //ood 

 Centrolobium patinense Pittier, Jcurn. .'/ash. Acad. 3c. 



5;470. 1915. 



I 

 Description of the tree 



A deciduous tree, 30 meters high and over, with a grayish, 

 rimose bark; crovm elon.jate; branchlets and rachis of the . 

 leaves covered with a soft, purple or favm-colored pubescence, ' 

 the latter terete, 30 to 35 c.i. long; stipules broadly ovate, 

 obtuse, wooly hairy; leaflets 11 to 15, membranous, briefly 

 petiolulate; petiolules 4 mm. long; blades ovate, rounded or 

 emarginate at the base, abruptly acuminate, 3 to 12 cm. long, 

 2.5 to 7 cm. broad, the middle ones largest, pubescent above, I 

 glabrescent beneath, the costa and veins mere or less reddish j 

 brown villous on both faces, blowers not known. Legume pe- > 

 dicellate, stipitate, winged, 17 to 20 cm. long including j 

 the wing, (this 6 to 8 cm. broad), the bcdy densely aculeate, ; 

 the wing fan-like, obliquely truncate at the tip, longitudi- 

 nally veined, the arc of the veins to the side of the spur- 

 like remnant of the style. ' 



Description of the wood 



Sapwood thick and yellov/ish white; heartwood reddish or i 



dark orange yellow with straight stripes of dark orown die 

 nearly black color-wood, har4 moderately heav^^, strong, 

 tough, rather fine-grained ynd susceptible to hi^^h polish. 

 It Sj^lits and works easily. Annual rings of growth visi- 

 ble only under hand lens or compound microscope. 



