LOZ iNTRIBUTIONS FROM I III: NATIONAL HERBARIUM. 



In littoral woods near Rio Grande, at La Estancia; near Ceiba; noar N'aguabo in 



1 iuanica in the a le md ;it 



La PI 

 The •! ol tin- tree i- much used in the manufacture of household furniture. 



L6. HYMENAEA I . 



8p. IM. 2: I L92. 1. 

 \ d ins. Fan .12: 317. I 



98. < ■••II. 351 . I 



i Pi i if.; Endl. Gen. 1317. 1841. 



Calyx with thick, campanulate receptacle, its segments l. imbricate; j>< < 



sessile, oblong or < »> •< >\ ;» t * *. subequal or the posterior o ften larger, glandular; 



stamens 10, free, glabrous; anthers glandular; ovary Bubsessile; style filiform; stigma 

 terminal, small; legume obliquely obovate or oblong, thick and often almosl terete, 

 coriaceous or subligneous, indehiscent; seeds few, exalbuminous, without aril. - 

 Unarmed trees; leaves paripinnate; leaflets coriaceous, glandular-punctate; flowers 

 usually large, white, in paniculate racemes; bracts and bracteoles ovate or < t1 >i<u- 

 lar. concave, caducous. 



1. Hymenaea courbaril I.." 

 Urban, 270. 



Tree L0 to 20 meters high; leaves bifoliate; leaflets leathery, polished, falcate-ovate 

 or oblong, 6 to L0 cm. long, 2.5 to I cm. wide, shortly petiolate; flowers white, in 

 many-flowered terminal cymes; calyx segments ovate, obtuse, leathery. 15 nun. 

 long; petals nearly equal, as long as the calyx segments; legume ligneous, thick, 

 7.5 I- 1" cm. long, 5 to •', cm. wide, indehiscent, filled with mealy pulp. 



Bayamon; in the Sierra de Luquillo at Mavi: near Juncos in the w 1- of 



Mount Santo de I. eon: near Maunabo, at Bmajagua; near Mayaguez; near Manati. — 

 Cuba Grisebach . Jamaica, St. Thomas, St. Croix, St. John Eggers . St. Bartholo- 

 mew Stockholm Herbarium), Antigua Grisebach), Gaudeloupe, Dominica. Mar- 

 tinique, St. Lucia Grisebach), St. Vincent, Bequia Kew Bull. no. 81, p. 249), Mus- 

 tique do. . Brazil, Guiana, Colombia. 



From the trunk of Hymenaea courbaril (locust tree, quapinole, jutahy, jatahy, or 

 jatobd a clear balsam drops to the ground, where it harden-, li is found in pieces 

 weighing sometimes several pounds. This resin i> known a- American copal, resina 

 copal, or courbaril, and i> used by the Brazilian physicians ami by the Indian* 

 medicament. The red wood is hard and heavy and is known in trade as courbaril 

 wood. Among the Indians tin- sweetish pulp is a favorite food. They understand 

 how to polish the resin most beautifully, and they use it for all kinds of ornaments. 

 especially for the well-known lip decorations, tembeta of the Amazon mar Parana i. 



I al name, algarrobo. 



17. TAMARINDUS L. 



Tamarindua L. Sp. PI. 1: 34. 1753. 



('alyx with a narrowly turbinate receptacle ami 1 Btrongly imbricated membranous 

 •it-: petals 3 1 posterior, 2 lateral , oblong or obovate-oblong, subequal, shortly 

 clawed: •_' anterior petals minute, setaceous or squammiform; fertile Btamens 3, the 

 anterior connate nearly half their length, alternating with minute or rudimentary 

 Btaminodia; ovary stipitate, multiovulate; style elongated; stigma terminal, truncate, 

 capitate; legume oblong or oblong-linear, thick, curved or nearly straight, compri 



» For illustration of fruit set i i >llins, pi. ±1, facing p. 164. 



