25- 



A shrub, about 5 1 

 lated, with the angle 

 roanded and mocronate at the apex : p 

 Stipules lanceolate, deciduous. Peduncles striafc 

 mnricated, elongating and becoming thicker as the fruit : 

 pedicels j an nek in length, slightly snricated. Flowers 

 mail in proportion. Standard da wed, of a yeilow colour ex- 

 ternally spotted with purple: wiaga 

 pieces, slightly cohering for a short 

 glabrous ; style carved : stigma ok* 

 in length, cylindrical, tumid at the) 

 rous, beaked with the persistent style, 

 slightly compressed. 



This species approaches rery nearly & xauksrauTA of 



XL PlSCIDIA. 



campanulate, 5-fid. Keel obtuse. Stamens 

 ous, with the tenth free at the base. Style 



filiform, glabrous. Legume pediceHed, linear, fur- 

 nished with 4 longitudinal membranaceous wings, in- 

 terrupted with isthmi between the seeds. Seeds 

 oval, compressed : hiium lateral : embryo curred : 

 cotyledons eiliptico-oblong, thickish : radicle hooked, 

 inflected. Zte Cand. 



West- India trees, with the leares impari-pinnare. #*, 

 front MSCIS a J6A,- the bark, especially that of the root, being 

 ei-ployed in poisoning fisfc, 



1. Piscidia Erythrina. Common Dogwood. 



Leaflets oblong or obo vato-elliptic, racemes panicled 

 axillary, stipe of the legumes 3 times longer than the 

 calyx, wings interrupted. 



Coral arbor polypbyfla noa apiaosa, fraxiai fefio sffiaaa alis 

 foliaeeis ex? tan lib us rotae mnlmdhnrhr nVrhtiliir TMrfi. Sloame, 

 II. 39. t. 176. f. 45. Ichthyomethia foliis pinnate oratis. ra- 

 cemis term inali bus, siliqnis quadrialatis, Bro**e t 295. Pisci- 

 dia Erythrina, Smart*, OU. 277. 



HAJ3. Common. 



FL. Jane, July. 



A tree, asaaBy abort 20 feet in height. Leaflets 3-4-paired 

 whh an odd one, petioluJated, oblong or o^ " =--:- 



ed at the base, entire, pubescent on both 



but snbglabrous when old. paler with mhmte 



neath. Racemes compound, axillary (terminal, S*mrtf a) ped- 



iwde S-gonal, pcbemloos ; divisions abort a* inch ia kagth : 



