116 FOREST TREES OF NORTH AMERICA. 



208. Chilopsis saligna, D. Don, 



Edinburgh Phil. Jour, ix, 261. Don, Miller's Diet, iv, 22-!. Dietrich, Syn. iii, 566. Gray in Bot. California, i, 587 ; Syu. Fl. N. America, 

 ii l , 320. Vasey, Cat. Forest Trees, 19. Rothrock in Wheeler's Rep. vi, 217. Hemsley, Bot. Am.-Cent. ii, 494. Rusby in Bull. 



Torrey Bot. Club, ix, 54. 

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Bignonia Uncarts, Cavnnilles, Icon, iii, 35, t. 269. 



0. UneariSj De Candolle, Prodr. ix, 227. Cooper in Smithsonian Rep. 1858, 266. 

 C. glutinosa, Engelmann in Wislizenus' Rep. 10. 



DESERT WILLOW. 



Valley of the Eio Grande, Texas (Laredo, Letterman), west through southern New Mexico and Arizona to the 

 San Gorgonio pass and the San Felipe caiion, San Diego county, California; southward into northern Mexico. 



. A small tree, 6 to 8 meters in height, with a trunk sometimes 0.30 meter in diameter ; mesas and banks of 

 depressions and water-courses in the desert; the large specimens generally hollow and defective. 



Wood light, soft, not strong, close-grained, checking in drying, containing many scattered, small, open ducts, 

 the layers of annual growth marked by several rows of larger ducts; medullary rays numerous, obscure; color, 

 brown streaked with yellow, the sap-wood much lighter; specific gravity, 0.5902; ash, 0.37. 



209. Crescentia cucurbitina, Linnseus, 



Mant. 2 ed. 250. Swartz, Obs. 234. Willdenow, Spec, iii, 311. Persoon, Syn. ii, 168. Alton, Hort. Kew. 2 ed. iv, 37. Gajrtner f. 

 Fruct. Suppl. 230, t. 223. Dietrich, Syn. iii, 567. Don, Miller's Diet, iv, 232. De Candolle, Prodr. ix, 246. Seeinann in Jour. 

 Bot. & Kew Gard. Misc. vi, 274 ; ix, 142. Walpers, Ann. v, 524. Grisebach, Fl. British West Indies, 445. Hemsley, Fl. Am. Cent. 

 ii,489. 



G. ovata, Burmann, Fl. Ind. 132. 



C. latifolia, Lamarck, Diet, i, 558 ; 111. iii, 96, t. 547. Deseourtik, Fl. Antilles, iii, 143, 1. 182. 

 G. lethifera, Tussac, Fl. Antilles, iv, 50, 1. 17. 

 G. toxicaria, Tussac, Fl. Antilles, iv, 50, 1. 17. 

 G. obovata, Bentham, Bot. Sulphur, 130, t. 46. 



BLACK CALABASH TREE. 



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Semi-tropical Florida, near Miami, and on Little river (Garber, Gurtiss) ; in the West Indies. 



A small tree, in Florida rarely exceeding 6 meters in height, with a trunk 0.10 to 0.12 meter in diameter. 



Wood heavy, hard, very close-grained, compact, containing many small, regularly -distributed, open ducts ; 

 medullary rays thin, hardly distinguishable; color, light brown tinged with orange, the sap-wood lighter; specific 

 gravity, 0.6319 ; ash, 1.35. 



VERBENACEJE. 



210. Citharexylum villosum, Jacquin, 



Coll. i, 72 ; Icon. Rar. t. 118. Persoon, Syn. ii, 142. Aiton, Hort. Kew. 2 ed. iv, 36. Dietrich, Syn. iii, 614. Schauer in De Candollo, 

 Prodr. xi, 610. Walpers, Rep. iv, 76. Chapman, Fl. S. States, 309. Vasey, Cat. Forest Trees, 10. Gray, Syn. Fl. N. America, ii 1 , 

 340. Hemsley, Bot. Am.-Cent. ii, 537. 



FIDDLE WOOD. 



Semi-tropical Florida, cape Canaveral to the southern keys (Pumpkin Key, Curtiss); and through the West 

 Indies to Mexico. 



A small tree, rarely exceeding iu Florida 6 meters in height, with a trunk 0.10 to 0.15 meter in diameter, or 

 north of bay Biscayne reduced to a low, much-branched shrub ; common and reaching within the United States 

 its greatest develop iieut on the shores of bay Biscayne, Lost Man's river, etc. 



Wood heavy, exceedingly hard, strong, close-grained, compact, susceptible of a fine polish, containing numerous 

 small, regularly -distributed, open ducts; color, clear bright red, the sap-wood lighter; specific gravity, 0.8710 ; 

 ash, 0.52. 



