146 ATTRIBUTIONS PROM THE NATIONAL HERBARIUM. 



6. LEUCAENA B< Dth. 



/ .. on '■■■ Bi \ i ii Book. Journ. Bot. 4: 116. 1842. 



Plowen 5-merous, BesBile, usually hermaphrodite; calyx tubulaj-campanulate, 

 dentate; corolla free; stamens 10, exserted; ovary stipitate, multiovulate; style fili- 

 form; legume stipitate, broadly linear, flat, coriaceous, 2-valved, tin- valves continu- 

 weds flat, ovate, transvera Trees r shrubs, unarmed; leaves bipinnate, the 

 rachia with or withoul glands; the leaflets small, multijugate, or large and pauciju- 

 gate; Btipules minute; flower-heads white, axillary, fascicled, or racemose at the 

 extremities. 



1. Leucaena g-lauca 1 1., i Benth. 



I (Jrban, % 



Tree 1<> to 20 meters high, rarely a shrub, unarmed; pinnae t to 8-jugate; leaflets 

 lu to 20-jugate, oblong-linear, pointed, oblique at the base, 1 1 to L6 mm. long, I nun. 

 wide; flowers minute, white; legume glabrous, 1<> to 15 cm. long; seeds compn 

 transverse to the val 



Near Bayamon, in mountain forests and thickets: near Comerio, in thickets; Dear 

 Coamo, in the valley of Quebrada, Morena brook; near Guanica, in the fori 

 Mount El Maniel; near Mayaguez. Bermuda, Bahama, Cuba, Jamaica, Cayman 

 (Hitchcock), Haiti. St. Thomas, St. Croix, St. John (Eggers . St. Martin Stockholm 

 Herbarium), St. Kitts. Antigua (Grisebach), Guadeloupe, Dominica. Martinique, 

 St. Vincent, Bequia - Kew Bull. do. 81, p. 250), Mustique (do.), Barbados, Grenada, 

 Tobago, Trinidad. Curasao. In the warmer regions -i" both hemispheres, hut proba- 

 bly indigenous only in tropical America. 



The linn wood of Leucatna glauca is used for making tools, and the young fruit 

 and tin- ripe seeds are eaten raw with rice. By some authors given as a tree (Urban i, 

 by others as a shrub (Stahl, cited by Cook and Collins, p. L75 . 



Local names, acacia pdlxda (Urban); hediondilla (Cook and Collins . 



7. SCHRANKIA Willd. 



SchrankiaWiLLD. Sp. PL 4: 1041. L806, not Medic. 1792. 

 Leptoglottis DC. Mem. Legum. 451. l v _ 

 Schranckia Bbnth. Hook. Journ. Bot. 4: 413. L842. 

 Morongia Britton, Mem. Torr. Club 5: 191. May. L894. 



Flower- 5 or 4-merous, pedicellate, hermaphrodite or polygamous; calyx minute: 

 corolla funnel-form, the Begments connate to the middle: stamens twice as many a> 

 the petals, free or cohering at the base, exserted; ovary subseasile, multiovulate; 

 style filiform: legume linear. Bubquadrangular, aculeate throughoul with spreading 

 prickles, the valves separating from the persistent sutural replum; seeds oblong, 

 quadrangular.- Serbs or undershrubs, armed with short recurved prickles: leaves 

 bipinnate; flower-heads globose, white or purple, axillary, solitary or fascicled, the 

 stamens in the male flowers often flatly compressed. 



1. Schrankia portoricensis 1'rl..' 



(Urban, l'»'»7. i 



Shrub, climbing; branches glabrous or at leaf insertions Blightly hairy: leave- : t • » 

 12 cm. long with petioles .". to l em. long; pinnae l to 7-jugate; leaflets L5 to 20-jugate, 

 linear, obtuse or Bomewhat acute, •"> to 6 mm. long, the veins inconspicuous, gla- 

 brous; flower heads axillary, solitary, n' to s mm. in diameter, light yellow: calyx 



k and Collin.-. ].. L94 ai >/ ongia distackycL 



