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food. Prom the roots in Cuba and Saiti an emetic is made, and a remedy used for 



rheumatism is procured b) boiling the leaves. The wood is aometimee used a- a dye, 



l>ut chiefly as a Bubstitute for the true red aandalwood. The heartwood ia red, hard, 



rained, durable, and Btrong, and ia used for house building and cabinet making. 



Local names, oorcditai, mato, mato Colorado, /><il<> </< mato, peronilos. 



12. PIPTADENIA Benth. 



ladema Bbnth. Book. Journ. Bot. 4: 334. L842. 

 Schleinitzia Warb. Engl. Bot. Yahrb. 13: 336. 1891. 

 Fl-v. le, 5-merous; calyx campanulate, shortly toothed; corolla connate to 



the middle; Btamena l<>. free, e'xserted; ovary subsessile; ovules 3 to many: legume 

 stipitate, rarely Besaile, broadly linear, flat, membranaceous orsubcoriaceous, 2-\ alved, 

 the valves continuous, without pulp; Beeds compressed; funiculus filiform. Tt» 

 shrubs, unarmed or aculeate; leaves bipinnate; leaflets small, multijugate, rarely large 

 and pauci jugate; flowers small, white or greenish, cylindrically spicate or globose- 

 < apitate, solitary or fascicled, axillary or panicled at the extremities. 



1. Piptadenia peregrina 1. Benth. 

 Urban, 269. 



Shrub I meters high or tree 20 meters high, unarmed : pinnae 1 5 to 30-jugate, leaflets 

 30 i" 80-jugate, minute. 2 to l mm. long, Ltol .5 mm. wide, linear, glabrescenl : petiole 

 puberulous, bearing a gland above the base; flower heads white, small; calyx 1 .."> mm. 

 1 « > t i lt : corolla \\.'-> mm. long; legume 5 to l"> cm. long, 1.5 cm. broad, subcoriaceous, '2- 

 valved. 



Near Bayamon, in mountain woods ai Toa Baja; near Aibonito, on slopes near Buena 

 Vista de la Plata: near Sabana Grande, on the Estero River; nearGabo Rojo, toward 

 Guanajibo; near Mayaguez; near Rincon, at Barriodel Pasto; Manati, in thickets near 

 Garrochales.- Haiti. Dominica, St. Vincent (Grisebach , Trinidad (Ben tham). Trop- 

 ica] America: Brazil, provinces of Rio Janeiro, MinasGeraes, Goyaz, and Rio N 

 Guiana, Venezuela. 



Local names, oojoocma, cojoba, cojobUlo, cojobo. 



13. ENTADA Adans. 



Entada Adans. Fam. 2: 318. L763. 



Flowers spicate, 5-merous, Bessile or shortly pedicellate; calyx campanulate, toothed 

 «.r deltoid-lobate; petals free or coherent at base, oblong-lanceolate or linear, valvate; 

 Btamena l<». usually exserted, the anthers elliptical or roundish with a terminal cadu- 

 cous gland; pollen-grains indefinite; ovary Bubsessile, multiovulate; style filiform; 

 stigma terminal, truncate, concave; legume straight, .-"met inn- of enormous size: 

 Beeds flattened, exall.nmiiK.n-: testa with a central areole. Trees or climbing shrubs, 

 unarmed ; leaves bipinnate, tin- number of pinnae and of leaflets very variable; .-pikes 

 solitary or fascicled from the upper axils, or panicled at the extremities; hermaphro- 

 dite "I" ]M.lyL r ainous. 



1. Entada polyphylla Benth. 

 (Urban, 269. 



A large shrub 5 meters high; pinnae I t" 8-jugate; leaflets L2 to 20-jugate, linoar- 

 oblong, obtuse, retuse, clothed beneath with Bhort adpressed hair-: ^j.ike- numerous 

 in terminal racemes, rachia and petioles puberulenl ; legume 7.5 cm. long. 



