Pithecellobium 



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Mimosa unguis-cati L. Sp. PI. 517 (1Z53) ; Jacq. Hort. Schoenhr. 

 Hi. t. 392 ; Sic. Obs. Bot. 389. M. spinis in caule geminis, foliis 

 bigeminis PltMi. . PI. Amer. (Burm.) t. i. JVI. fruticosa foliis 

 ovatis &c. Broione- Hist. Jam. 252. Inga uuguis-cati Willd. Sj). 

 PZrlOOe (1806); Mac/. Jam. i. 306. I. microphylla Humh. & 

 Bonpl. ex Willd. Sp. PI. 1004 (1806). Mimosa rosea VaU 

 Eclog. Am. Hi. 33, t. 25 (1807). M. guadalupensis Pers. Syn. ii. 

 262 (1807). Inga forfex Kunth Mimos. 52, t. 16 (1820). Pithe- 

 colobium guadalupense Chapm. Ft. S. U. States 116 (1860). 

 (Fig. 45.) . 



Black-bead shrub. • 



St. .Tago de la Vega, Sloane Herb. vi. 45, 46 ! Houstoun ! Wright ! 

 Massonl Bancroft \ Purdie ; Macfadyen ; Falmouth, Miss A. Moultcni 

 Barrett ! between Kingston and Salt Ponds, Fawcett ! near Falmouth ; 



Fig. 45. — Pithecellobium unguis-cati Beutli. 



Pods, one just opening, the other quite open, showinj; 

 the seeds with aril, nat. size. 



Heathshire Hills; Corby, S. Cruz Mts., 1200 ft.; Salem, Llandovery, St. 

 Ann; Harrisl Fl. Jam. 7238, 9534, 9745, 10,376, 11,625.— Florida and 

 Keys, Bahamas, West Indies, Venezuela, Colombia. 



A glabrous shrub or small tree, 10-15 ft. high ; common petiole • 5-8 • 5 

 cm. 1. ; petiolule 3-8 mm. 1. Leaflets obliquely obovate or elliptical, or 

 oblong-lanceolate, varying much in size, 1-4-5 cm. 1. and more. Gland 

 between the pinnae and between the leaflets. Flower-heads stalked, in 

 axillary racemes, or terminal panicles. Calyx 1*5 mm. 1. Corolla 5-6 

 mm. 1., greenish-yellow. Statnens, 3 times as long as the corolla, pale 

 yellow or sometimes rosy or purplish. Pod 7-10 mm. br. Seeds b-ly 

 black, shining, roundish, half covered with a white fleshy aril. 



[P. dulce Benth. in HooJe. Lond. Journ. Hi. 199 (1844) ; 

 like P. unguis-cati, but a tree to 50 ft. high ; it also differs in 

 the creamy- white corolla being only half as long, 2*5-3 mm. 1., 

 and the inflorescence, instead of being glabrous, is covered with 

 whitish tomentum. — Mimosa dulcis Boxh. PL Corom. i. 67, t. 99 

 (1795). Inga dulcis Willd. Sp. PL iv. 1005 (1805) ; WigJd L: 



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