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shorter; pedicels very slender, 0.5-2 cm. long; calyx G-S mm. long; petals 

 nearly orbicular, about twice as long as the calyx; stamens about one-half as 

 long as the petals; pods drooping, linear-cylindric, 5-15 cm. long, mut-h con- 

 stricted between the seeds, which are oblong-cylindric, about 1 cm. long. 



Scrub-lands, Grand Turk : — southern Tnited States ; Cuba to Virgin fJorda and 

 Trinidad : Jamaica ; continental tropical America ; introduced into the Old Worla 



tropics. I'ARKIXSOMA. HORSEBEAX. 



5. HAEMATOXYLUM L. Sp. PI. 384. 1753. 



Trees or shrubs, with yellow wood, evenly pinnate leaves, the leaflets ob- 

 cordate, the spinescent stipules persistent or deciduous, the showy yellow 

 minutely bracted flowers in loose axillary racemes. Calyx-tube very short, its 

 5 segments imbricated, somewhat unequal. Petals 5, oblong, spreading, some- 

 what unequal. Stamens 10, distinct; filaments pilose at the base; anthers all 

 alike. Ovary short-stipitate, 2-3-ovuled; style filiform; stigma terminal, small. 

 Pod flat, membranous, oblong or lanceolate, not dehiscent along the sutures, 

 but splitting through the middle of the valves. Seeds transverse, oblong; endo- 

 sperm none; cotyledons 2-lobed. [Greek, bloodwood.] Two known species, the 

 following typical. 



1. Haematoxylum campechianum L. Sp. PI. 384. 1753. 



A glabrous tree up to about 8 m. high, or sometimes shrubby, with spread- 

 ing branches, the trunk ridged, the bark smooth and light gray, the twigs 

 slender. Stipular spines 5-15 mm. long; leaves petioled, 5-10 cm. long; 

 petioles very short ; leaflets 2-4 pairs, chartaceous, cuneate-obovate, 1-3 cm. 

 long, finely many-veined, usually rather deeply emarginate, shining above; 

 racemes several-many-flowered, short-peduncled, 2-5 cm. long; pedicels fili- 

 form, spreading, 4-6 mm. long; calyx 3-4 mm. long, its segments oblong-lanceo- 

 late, acute, unequal; petals obtuse, 4-6 mm. long; stamens about as long as the 

 petals; pod oblong, delicately veined, 2-5 cm. long, 8-12 mm. wide, very thin, 

 pointed at both ends. 



Coastal thickets, hillsides and borders of salines. Andros. New Trovidence, 

 Exuma Chain, Cat Island, Conception Island. Long Island. Crooked Island : — West 

 Indies and Central America. Logwood. Catesbj-, 2 : pi. 66. 



6. GUILANDINA L. Sp. PI. 381. 1753. 



Woody vices, the stems and branches mostly armed with stout recurved 

 prickles. Leaves large, petioled, bipinnate, the leaflets often punctate. Flowers 

 rather large, yelloAv, racemose or paniculate, the narrow bracts deciduous. 

 Calyx-lobes 5, imbricated, longer than the tube. Petals 5, nearly alike, spread- 

 ing. Stamens 10, the filaments pubescent below, the anthers longitudinally de- 

 hiscent. Pods oval or elliptic, not much longer than wide, subcoriaceous, com- 

 pressed, usually prickly, si^litting along the sutures. Seeds hard, globose or 

 ovoid, yellow, gray or black, smooth, scarcely flattened. [Commemorates Mel- 

 chior Guilandinus, a German traveller and botanist who died in 1590.] About 

 12 species, mostly West Indian. Type species: GuiUnxVnn Bonduc L. 



Seeds gray; stipules large. 1. G. Crista. 

 Seeds yellow ; stipules small or wanting. 



Leaflets ovate, acute or acuminate. 2. G. Hondur. 



Leaflets elliptic to suborbicular, obtuse or emarginate. H. G. ovalifolia. 



