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under the name “ Bignonia pe folio singulari undulato, 
siliquis longissimis & angustissimis."" The tree described by 
Plumier was probably from Hispani ola. Sims, in 1808,* seeing 
that it was not a Bignonia, called it Catalpa ae Chamis- 
so, in 1822, recording the tree as found at Cape Francais, Hayti,f 
printed thes name i Carine eee 
This f the southern 
part of Jamaica, where it is called “French Oak" or oa 
Oak,” and its timber ‘Yoke Wood” or ‘Mast Wood,” and 
occurs also in Haiti and Santo Domingo, in similar dry regions. 
Grisebacht akan its occurrence on St. Thomas, but it is not 
nown to grow on that island now and Baron Eggers did not 
know of it there in 1879. 
Inasmuch as it is unknown in Porto Rico, Grisebach’ s record 
This tree attains a height of at least sixty feet and a trunk 
diameter of four feet, and.its wood furnishes a very valuable 
timber;§ it has smooth, ieee stalked, elliptic to lanceolate, 
thin leaves three or four inches long, which are narrowed o 
t. Mag. under pl. ro94; 
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Rep. Mo. Bot. Gard. 4: 114. 1893. 
|| Jour. N. Y. Bot. Gard. 8: 75-77. 
See W. Harris, Bull. Dept. Agric. Jam. 1:27. IgII. 
