LEGUMINOS^. 213 



tube. Ltgume pUlpy, iadehiscent. — A tree ; leaves ahrv/ftly pinnate ; flowers racemose, 



184*. T. indica, L. — Jacq. Amer. Fid. t. 13, — T. occidentalis, B. .- the West-Indian 

 form, with the legume 4-1-seeded. — A high tree ; leaflets obloug, retuse or rounded at the 

 top, deciduous, IS-lO-jugal. — Hab. Naturalized in all the West Indian islands !, all. coll. ; 

 [introduced &om the East Indies, and cultivated in all tropical countries]. 



66. HYMEN^aiA, L. 



Cah/x-tuhe lignescent, bracteolate: Hmb 4-5-partite, deciduous. Petals 5, inserted vrith 

 the stamens'into the summit of the calyx-tube. Stamens 10. Legume woody, iudehiscent. — 

 Resinous trees ; leaves iifoliolate ; flowers corymbose. 



185. H. Courbaril, L. Leaflets leathery, polished, unetjual-sided, obliquely oblong- 

 lanceolate ; flowers 'pedicellate, white ; ovary stipitate ; legume few-seeded, rough, with mi- 

 nute warts. — Besc. Fl. 5. t. 359. — A high tree ; petals nearly equal, as long as the calyx- 

 segments ; legume fllled with mealy pulp. — Hab. Jamaica I, Fd. ; Antigua !, WullscM. ; 

 Dominical, Imr.; S.Lucia I, Anders.; [Cuba; Panama! to Guiana!]. 



67. CASPAEEA, Kth. 



Calyx-tube cylindrical: limb ligulate-spathaceous, 6-dentate, Petals 5, inserted with 

 the stamens into the summit of the calyx-tube, stamens diadelphous, 1 distinct, fertile, 9 

 connected, reduced, sterile. , Ovary stipitate : gynophore free from the calyx : stigma capi- 

 tate. Legume compressed, bivalved. — Woody plants ; leaflets 3, usually united by their 

 inner margins into a bilobed leaf; flowers in terminal racemes. 



186. C. porrecta, f M. Shrubby; ?«(»>«,! cordate-roundish or ovate, 9-7 -nerved, ii/o^erf 

 to one-half or one-third (rarely entire), puberiilous on the nerves beneath : lobes deltoid, with 

 a bluntish point, parallel ; petals lanceolate, half as long as the fertile stamen and the pistil. — 

 Jacq. B. Schcenbr. t. 100. — Bauhinia, 5z».— 6'-15' high ; leaves variable, glaucescent be- 

 neath, 4"-l" diam. ; petals variegated with rosy or white, 8'" long ; legume flat-compressed, 

 6"-3" long, 10-1 -seeded. — Hab. Jamaica!, all. coll., common in the lower hills ; [Haiti]. 



187. C. aurita, Crr. Shrubby ; leaves subcordate-obloug, 9-7 -nerved, bilobed to two- 

 thirds, puberuloUs on the nerves beneath : lobes oblong-lanceolate, acuminate with a bluntish 

 point, parallel ; petals lanceolate, more than twice shorter than the fertile stamen and the 

 pistil. — Mill. Ic. t. 61. — Bauhinia, Ait. — 10'-20' high; leaves 2"-l'' long; petals white, 

 6'" long; legume 2"-l"long, 4-1-seeded. — Hab. Jamaica {Mill.) ; [Haiti!]. 



68. BAUHINIA, L., Vog. 



Calyx-tube cylindrical : limb ligulate-spathaceous, rarely S-partite. Petals 5, inserted 

 with the stamens into the summit of the calyx-tube. Stamens 10, monadelphous at the 

 base, or distinct, all fertile or partly sterile. Ovary stipitate : gynophore free from tie calyx : 

 stigma infundibular-lamellate or conical. Legume bivalved or indehiscent. — ^Woody plants ; 

 leaflets of Casparea ; racemes or single flowers opposite to the leaves. 



The small-flowered BaUhinice, with a minute conical stigma, short anthers, and the calyx- 

 limb usually 5-dentate in the bud, form a distinct Section, to which the name of Paulletia 

 may remain : of these B. microphylla, Vog., grows in Cuba, and a new species is cultivated 

 in Jamaica. 



188. B. megalamdra, Gr. (m.j^.). Unarmed; branches glabrescent; leaves subcordate- 

 roundish, bilobed to one-third, 9-nerved, glabrous, with the nerves glabrescent beneath : lobes 

 broadly ovate, rounded-blunt, parallel ; flowers solitary, or the uppermost racemose ; calyx 

 long, externally rusty-tomentose, spathaceous, with the cohering summit entire : limb nearly 

 as long as the linear glabrous petals and as the distinct stamens; anthers 10, elongated- 

 linear ; stigma infundibular-lamellate, ovate-oblong, unilateral. — Allied to B. multinervia, 



Kth., which is said to have 11-uerved leaves, still larger flowers, and a bilamellate stigma. 



A tree', leaves 5"-3i" diam. : petiole l"-6"' long ; flowers 3"-4" long, mostly opposite to 

 the leaves : pedicels thictish, 4"'-6"' long ; calyx oblong-cylindrical, slightly curved, 6'" diam. 



