86 



Iff. Ord. LEQUMINOS^:. 

 Tribe Eu-casalpinece. 



Genus Haematoxylon, Linn* B. & H., Gen., i, p. 567 ; Baill., 

 Hist. PL, ii, p. 164'. A genus consisting of but a single 

 species. 





86. HaBmatoxylon campechianum, Linn., Sp. PI, ed. I, 



p. 384 (1753). 



Logwood. Peachwood. 



Figures. WoodviUe, t. 163; Hayne, x, t. 44; Nees, t. 342; Sloane, 

 Hist. Jamaica, t. x, figs. 1-4 ; Karsten, Fl. Columbiana, t. 114 ; 

 Tussac, Fl. Antilles, iv, t. 36; Baill., 1. c., figs. 49-51. 



Description. A small spreading tree, with, very crooked 

 branches covered with a dark rough bark, in the smaller smooth 

 twigs beset with small white dots. Leaves alternate, or appa- 

 rently fasciculate on stunted branches, pinnate, with 4 (rarely 5) 

 pairs of opposite, shortly stalked, obcordate, smooth, uniform leaf- 

 lets (rarely bipinnate) ; stipules small, membranous, usually cadu- 

 cous, but in wild and stunted trees persistent, and forming strong 

 sharp spines. Flowers small, in lax axillary racemes exceeding 

 the leaves, on longish pedicels, which are articulated with the axis ; 

 bracts minute. Calyx very deeply divided into 5 broad rounded 

 segments, the anterior one longer than the others, glabrous, pur- 

 ple. Petals 5, forming a nearly regular corolla, spreading, slightly 

 exceeding the calyx-segments, obovate-lanceolate, smooth, yellow, 

 inserted in the mouth of the short cup-shaped tube of the calyx. 

 Stamens 10, inserted with, the petals, free, nearly equal, a little 

 longer than the petals, filaments hairy below ; anthers small, simi- 

 lar, dehiscing longitudinally. Pistil shortly stalked from the base 

 of the calyx-tube ; ovary narrow, compressed, with 2 or 3 ovules ; 

 style elongated, filiform, terminated by the small ' capitate stigma, 



* Name from alpa, blood, and %v\ov, wood, in allusion to the colour of the 

 duramen. 



