64 FOREST TREES OF NORTH AMERICA. 



100. Lysiloma latisiliqua, Bentham, 



Kev. Mim. in Trans. Linnaean Soc. xxx, 534. Chapman, Fl. S. States, SuppL 619. 

 Mimosa latisiliqua, Linnsens, Spec. 2 ed. 1504. 



Acacia latisiliqua, Willdenow, Spec, iv, 1067. Persoon, Syn. ii, 255. De Candolle, Prodr. ii, 467. Maofadyen, Fl. Jamaica, 

 318. Nuttall, Sylva, ii, 34, t. 53 ; 2 ed. i, 183, t. 53. Cooper in Smithsonian Rep. 1858, 264. 



L. Bahamensis, Bentham in Hooker's London Jour. Bot. iii,82. 

 Acacia Bahamensis, Grisebach, Fl. British West Indies, 221. 



WILD TAMARIND. 



Semi-tropical Florida, southern keys (Key Largo, Elliott's, Plantation, and Boca Chica Keys) ; through the 

 West Indies. 



A tree sometimes 15 meters in height, with a trunk O.GO to 0.90 meter in diameter; bark of the young, 

 vigorous trees smooth; the older trees generally decayed and defective, with rough, dark bark (Curtiss). 



Wood heavy, hard, not strong, tough, close-grained, compact, susceptible of a fine polish, containing many 

 cattered, open ducts; medullary rays numerous, not conspicuous; color, rich dark brown tinged with red, the 

 sap-wood white; specific gravity, 0.6418; ash, 2.12; somewhat used locally in boat- and ship-building, and considered 

 equal to mahogany for this purpose. 



101. Pithecolobium Unguis-cati, Bentham, 



Hooker's London Jour. Bot. iii, 200; Rev. Mim. in Trans. Linnsean Soc. xxx, 572, 648. Grisebach, Fl. British West Indies, 276. 

 Chapman, Fl. S. States, 116. Vasey, Cat. Forest Trees, 13. 



Mimosa Unguis-cati, Linnaeus, Spec. 2 ed. 1497. Jacquin, Hort. Schcenb. iii, 74, t. 392. Descourtilz, Fl. Med. Antilles, 

 i,t. 11. 



Inga Unguis-cati, Willdenow, Spec, iv, 1006. De Candolle, Prodr. ii, 436. Nuttall, Sylva, ii, 37, t. 54; 2 ed. i, 86, t. 54. 



Mimosa rosea, Vahl, Eclogse, iii, 33, t. 25. 



Inga rosea, Stendel in De Candolle, Prodr. ii, 437. 



Ingaforfex, Kunth.Mim. 12, t. 16. 



P. forfex, Bentham in Hooker's London Jonr. Bot. iii, 199. 



Inga Guadalupensis, Desvanx, Jour, i, 70. 



Mimosa Guadalupensis, Persoon.syn. ii,26a. 



Inga microphylla, Humboldt & Bonpland in Willdenow, Spec, iv, 1004. 



P. microphyllum, Bentham in Hooker's London Jour. Bot. iii, 200. 



P. Guadalupensis, Chapman, Fl. 8. States, 116. 



OAT'S CLAW. 



Semi-tropical Florida, Caximbas bay, and on the southern keys ; through the West Indies. 



A small tree, sometimes 6 meters in height, with a trunk rarely exceeding 0.15 meter in diameter, or often 

 throwing out many spreading, vine-like stems from the ground. 



Wood very heavy, hard, close-grained, checking badly in drying ; medullary rays numerous, inconspicuous; 

 color, rich red varying to purple, sap-wood clear yellow; specific gravity, 0.9049; ash, 2.46. 



ROSACES. 



102. Chrysobalanus Icaco, Linnseus, 



Spec. 1 ed. 513. Jacquin, Stirp. Am. 154, t. 94. Lamarck, Diet, iii, 224 ; 111. ii, 542, t. 428. Poiret, Snppl. iii, 135. Aiton, Hort. Kew. 

 2 ed. iii, 200. De Candolle, Prodr. ii, 525. Lindloy in Trans. Hort. Soc. London, v, 98. Turpin, Diet. Sci. Nat. 236. Tussac, 

 Fl. Antilles, iv, 91, t. 31. Spach, Hist. Veg. i, 369, t. 5, f. 4. Torrey & Gray, Fl. N. America, i, 406. Walpers, Rep. ii, 1 ; Ann. iv, 642. 

 Bentham, Bot. Sulphur, 91 ; Fl. Nigritiana, 336. Spreugel, Icon. t. 274, f. 1-13. Cooper in Smithsonian Rep. 1860, 439. Chapman, 

 Fl. S. States, 119. Grisebach, Fl. British West Indies, :*). Baillou in Adansonia, vii, 221 ; Hist. PI. i, 427, f. 486, 487. Hooker 

 f. in Martins, Fl. Brasil. ii, 7. Guibourt, Hist. Drogues, 7 ed. iii, 287. Henisley, Bot. Am. -Cent, i, 365. 



