150 FLOE A OF JAMAICA Zygia 



Pod continuous within, flat-compressed, with the edges sometimes 

 more or less undulate-curled, leathery and stiff, straight or 

 curved, tardily opening. 



Species about 14, natives of tropical continental America, 

 one species also in the West Indies. 



This genus is Bentham's section Caulanthon of Pithecellohium, 

 with the exception probably of the last two species mentioned in 

 his monograph in Trans. Linn. Soc. xxx. 593. 



7u latifolia comh. nov. Zygia arborescens &c. Browne Hist. 

 Jam. 279, /. 22, /. 3. Acacia non spinosa foliis juglandis 

 flore purpureo Plum. Cat. 17, Ic. ined. iv. 207 & PI. Amer. 

 (Burm.) 5, t. 9. Mimosa latifolia L. Syst. ed. 10, 1310 (1759). 

 M. Zygia L. Amwn. v. 384 (1760). Inga latifolia Willd. Sp. 

 PL iv. 1020 (1806). Albizzia latifolia Boiv. in Encyc. xix. 

 Siecle ii. 33. Pithecolobium latifolium Benth. in Hook. Lond. 

 Journ. Hi. 214 (1844), in Fl. Bras. xv. pt. 2, 449, t. 119, & in 

 Tram. Linn. Soc. xxx. 595. Calliandra latifolia Griseh. Fl. Br 

 W. Ind. 225 (1860). (Fig. 46.) 



Horse Wood, Hoop Wood. 



Very common, St. Mary, Broivne ; Agualta Vale river course, McNab '. 

 Wilson 1 Wag Water, St. Andrew, March ! Mount Dakin ; Castleton ; 

 IIarris\ Fl. Jam. 5610.— Martinique, St. Vincent, Trinidad, Panama, 

 northern South America. 



Slvruh or tree, 10-25 ft. high, glabrous. Leaflets in 1 or 2 pairs with 

 an odd leaflet below, the lower leaflets not opposite, elliptical, narrowing 

 to the apex and to the oblique base, the highest 7-12(-15) cm. 1., 2-5-5 

 cm. br., the lower on the pinna smaller. Stipules sometimes persistent, 

 acute, 3-4 mm. 1. Common petiole very short, 7-3 mm. 1. or still shorter ; 

 rhachis of the pinnae 2-12 cm. 1. Gland between the pinniB, and between 

 the terminal leaflets. Flower-heads lax-flowered, subsessile or shortly 

 stalked, densely clustered. Flowers crimson or purplish. Calyx campanu- 

 late, 1'5 mm. 1. Corolla tubular, increasing in width upwards, toothed, 

 6-7 mm. 1. Stamens more than twice as long as the corolla, tube exceeding 

 the corolla in length by about 2 mm. Pistil nearly as long as the stamens. 

 Pod curved slightly, 1-3 dm. 1., 2-2-5 cm. br. 



49. ENTEROLOBIUM Mart. 



Trees, with or without spines. Pinnae and leaflets in few or 

 numerous pairs. Plowers sessile or shortly stalked, in globular 

 heads. Peduncles axillary, solitary or in clusters of 2-5. Floral 

 parts in 5's. Calyx campanulate to tubular, shortly toothed. 

 Stamens indefinite, united below, exserted ; pollen aggregated 

 into 2-4 masses in each cell. Pod straight or curved, not 

 twisted, thick, pulpy or more or less spongy and dry, or leathery, 

 not or scarcely opening, with partitions between the seeds. 



Species about 12, natives of tropical America. 



The genus as amended here includes not only those species 



