168 CONTRIBUTIONS FBOM Nil NATIONAL BERBABITJM. 



Cultivated and seemingly Bpontaneoua Dear Bayamon; Dear Yabucoa; Dear Utuado, 

 at Sali.. Arriba; aear Mayagues. Florida Keya, Bahama Dolley . Cuba, Jamaica, 

 Cayman Bitchcock , Haiti, St. Thomas, St. Croix, St. Martin Stockholm Herbarium 

 St. Bartholomew do.), St. Kin-. Antigua (Griaebach), Guadeloupe, Martinique, 

 St. Vincent, Barbadoe Sloane), Grenada, Tobago, Trinidad Griaebach . The plan! 

 i- also found in America, Aaia, and Africa. Native country unknown. 



This elegant bush remains in flower all the year. In one variety the flowers are red, 

 in another yellow. The leaves, flowers, and Beeds are largely used in Dative medicine. 

 J name, claveUina. Cuba, cuacama - maica, flow badot 



Spanish carnation Sloane), Barbados prid\ P. Brown, ftCacfadyen ; 

 Prance, poinciadt or fleurs cL pamdis (Jacquin ; Hani. poincellacL Jager, Buch ; 

 Danish Islands, dudeldu (Eggere . Guadeloupe, baraguetU (Duchassaing, D 

 tinique, arrite-ba i/s Dubs ; Barbados, flower fend or Spanish carnation Bu| 

 Tobago, dudeldu Egg 



25. MYROSPERMUM Jacq. 



Myrospermum .1 \< Q. Bnum. PI. Carib. 4. 17 

 Calusia Bert.; DC. Prod. 2: 94. L8 ction. 



Calyx inflexed-turbinate, with very short, wide, membranous teeth; standard 

 obovate, the 1 inferior petals free, almosl alike, curved, lanceolate, acute; stamens 

 free, persistent, with long filaments and small anthers; ovary Btipitate, 2 to many- 

 Beeded; Btyle Bubulate, almosl Btraight, with a small terminal stigma; pod Btipitate, 

 compressed, indehiscent, with one Beed at the apex, narrowed to the base, 2- winged, 

 the wing of the upper suture broader than thai of the lower: seeds oblong. Tree with 

 imparipinnate leaves: leaflets with pellucid lines and dots; flowers rather larg 

 t •rminal racemes. 



1. Myrosperrnum frutescens Jacq. 



I Urban, •_':<>. I 



A -mall irer. :; to 5 meters high or a large "tie l'o meters high; leaflets •"> to 7-jugate, 

 '2 to 2.5 cm. long, membranaceous, oblong or oval, roundish, retuse or blunl at the 

 apex, glabrous, Btriate with pellucid lines; (lowers white, the standard Btriped in the 

 middle with green; legume 5 to 7.5 cm. long | including the wing), as broad as the wing, 

 which tapers at the base into a short stalk. 



Cultivated and seemingly wild nearCoamo; near Peiiuelas, Dear Utuado, in a thicket 

 of Coffea arabica at San Andres: Dear Mayaguez. — St. Croix Egg ra . Native countr*' 

 Trinidad, Central America. Colombia. Venezuela. 



Local Dames, cereipo, 8< reipo. 



26. ORMOSIA Jacks. 



Ormosia Jacks. Trans. Linn. Soc. 10: 360. pis. ?5, ::. iSll. 

 Macrotropis DC. Prod. 2: 98. 1825. 



Calyx campanulate with the 2 upper teeth Bubconnate and usually longer and wider, 

 often incurved; petals unguiculate; Btandard Buborbicular or cordate; wings oblique, 

 obovate-oblong; keel with the petals Eree; Btamens free, unequal, all or all hut our or 

 two perfect; anthers versatile; ovary Bubsessile, biovulate or multiovulate; style 

 filiform, involute at the apex; stigma introrse, lateral: pod oblong or more rarely 

 linear, usually short, compressed, coriaceous, fleshy or woody, 2-valved, continuous or 

 septate between the seed >bovate or oblong, rather thick, shiny, scarlet or 



spotted with black. Trees with imparipinnate or abruptly pinnate leaves; leaflets 

 coriaceous; flowers white, lilac, or blackish purple in terminal, more rarely axillary. 

 panicles, sometimes in racem< 



