1 4 1? 'N I i;u;r l i<>.\> PBOM nil. NATIONAL SEBBABIUM. 



Flowen and Emit, March to Ma\ . The pods are much eaten by cattle. According 

 to H.iri (cited in Cook and Collins, p. 221 "the tree gives a fine shade for 'Guinea 

 pastures and it is also an excellent one for planting in ordinary ' low-bite' pastures, both 

 for the benefit of herbage and also an a shade for the cattle. 1 ' 

 1 name, soman. 



2. Pithecolobium arboreum I.. I rl>. 

 Irl ..in. 264. 



Forest tree 15 to 20 meters high, unarmed; Leaflets oblique, falcate-oblong, somewhat 

 obtuse, Bhining, dark green, i»' to L2 mm. long, 3 mm. wide; flowers whitish green in 

 globose heads; calyx 2.5 mm. Long; corolla 6.6 mm. Long; Legume red, 7 to s cm Long, 

 7 nun. wide; seeds black. 



In woods Dear Bayamon; near t Sayey at Las i hruces; Dear Qtuado, in rocky districts 

 at I.<>> Angeles; near Mayaguez; Dear Quebradillas. — Cuba, Jamaica, Ham. Mexico, 

 Central America. 



Local names, cojoba, cojdbana. 



3. Pithecolobium ung-uis-cati I. I'm nth. 



Urban, - 



Trcc^ 3 to 5 meters high, armed; Leaflets obovate, orbicular or broadly oblong, Btrongly 

 oblique, obtuse, 4 to 5 cm. Long, 1 to :'> cm. broad; flowers whitish, in elongated heads; 



calyx 1 to 2 nun. long; corolla 6 to 7 nun. Long; Legume 10 to L2 cm. long, 7 nun. wide 

 On the c<»ast near Fajardo; near Ponce at Tallaboa in thickets; near Guanica on 

 declivities at Punta de la Meseta: near Salinas de Cabo Rojo in woods on the COas) . — 

 South Florida (Chapman and Keys, Bahama, Cuba I A. Richard <. Jamaica, Haiti. St. 

 Thomas, St. Croix, St. John (Eggers . St. Bartholomew Stockholm Berbarium . Bar- 

 buda, St. Kitts. Antigua (Grisebach), Guadeloupe, Les Saintes Duss . Mane Galante 

 (do.), Dominica. Martinique, St. Lucia (Grisebach), St. Vincent (do. . Bequia, Mus- 

 tique (Kew Bull. no. 81, p. 250), Union (do.), Barbadoes, Grenada, Trinidad, Vene- 

 zuela, New Grenada. 



The bark of P. unguis-cati is a much-valued medicament, and it is this tree thai 

 furnishes the Biliciferous wood of the Antilles. 



1 names, u,1ia <l goto, rolon, black bead; near Guayanilla called "escomoron 

 Colorado'' (Cook and Colline . 



3. ALBIZZIA Duraz. 



Albizzia Duraz. Mag. Tosc. 3 4 : 11. 1772. 



Flowers usually 5-merous, hermaphrodite or more rarely polygamous; calyx tubular 

 or campanulate, toothed or shortly lobed; corolla funnel-formed; petals united one- 

 half their Length or more; stamens indefinite, united at the base only or in a Long- 

 exserted -heath: legume broadly linear, straight, flat, thin, indehiscent, or dehiscent 

 with 2 inelastic valves Dot contorted after dehiscence, continuous, without pulp. — 

 Trees or shrubs unarmed; Leaves bipinnate, leaflets small and numerous or few and 

 flowers white, rose, rarely purple, in globose heads or cylindrical spikes, axillary 

 or racemose toward the extremities. 



J. Albizzia lebbek (L.) BeDth a 



(Urban, 264.) 



Tree, unarmed; pinnae 'j to 4- jugate; Leaflets, 5 to 9-jugate, oval-oblong or oblong, 

 3 to 4 cm. long, 1 to L.5 cm. wide, unequal sided, very obtuse, the petiole bearing an 



a For illustration see Cook and Collins, pi. 1~>. being p. 70. 



