PERKINS— THE LEGUMINOSAE OF POBTO RICO. L69 



1. Ormosia krug-ii Qrb. 

 Urban, 280. 



Tree L0 to _'•"> meters high; Leaves 7 to 9-foliolate; petioles 20 cm. long; Leaflet 

 L5mm Long, petiolulate, oval or oval-ellipt ical, obovate or ovate, rounded or truncate 

 at the top, rounded or Bubtruncate at the base, 7 to 25 cm. long, 3.5 to 1 t cm. wide. 

 coriaceous, upper surface glabrous, lower surface with minute adpressed hair-: inflores- 

 cence sometimes 35 cm. long, axillary or terminal, paniculate or subcoryml 

 10 mm. long, pilose; petals dark violet; standard suborbicular, \2 mm. wide, spotted 

 with while or pale yellow; wings oblique, obovate-cuneate; keel petals free, oblique, 

 oblong, L3 i" II inni. long; ovary 1 to 6-ovulate; pod L0 cm. Long, _' em. wide, con- 

 stricted between the Beeds; seeds suborbicular or obovate-orbicular, l<» to 1l' nun. 

 long, 'i i" 9 mm. thick, carmine-red or spotted with black. 



In the primeval woods near Bayamon; near Juncos, on >r< -u n t Guvuy; Sierra <!«• las 

 Piedras, on Mount Frances; near Yabucoa, on Mounl Piedra A/.ul at Jacana and on 

 Mmint ( Jerro ( rordo; aear Adjuntas, od Mount Anduboand Mounl Cedro; near Utuado, 

 at Roncador; in Sierra de Lares at Guajataca. -Dominica al Castle Bruce. 



Local names, matos or palo cL matos, p< onia. 



27. SOPHORA L. 



Sophora L. Sp. PI. 1: 373. L753. 



Calyx teeth short; standard obovate or orbicular, erecl or spreading; wing 

 oblique; keel oblong, nearly straight, its petals usually imbricate or coherent along 

 the back; stamens perigynous or nearly hypogynous, free or rarely slightly connate 

 at the base; anthers versatile; ovary short-stalked, multiovulate; style incurved; 

 stigma minute, terminal: pod moniliform, terete or slightly compressed, coriaceous 

 and indehiscenl in our species; cotyledons thick, the radicle sometimes straight and 

 short, sometimes longer and indexed.- Trees or shrubs with imparipinnate ! 

 Leaflets sometimes small and numerous, sometimes few and large, often with stipels; 

 flowers white, rarely a bluish-violet, in simple terminal racemes, these sometimes 

 aggregated in panicles. 



1. Sophora tomentosa L. 



(Urban, 280. 



A robust, erecl shrub, 2 to 3 meters high, the branches densely argent eous; petiole 

 2.5 cm. long; rachis 5 to L0 cm. long; leaflets L5 to L9, nearly sessile, oblong, \ to 5 cm. 

 long, slightly mucronate, the base slightly roundel, subcoriaceous, both sides densely 

 and permanently coated with adpressed gray-silvery t omentum; flowers in lax 12 to 

 30-flowered axillary and terminal racemes; pedicels 0.6 to L.2 cm. long, argei I 

 with a lanceolate or linear brad at the base; calyx campanulate, 6 to s nun. 

 Bubtruncate, argenteous; corolla, bright yellow, L.8cm. deep; pod L2.5to L5 cm. long, 

 with 5 to 8 coriaceous segments 6 to 8 mm. thick, connected by narrow neck-. 



Near Guanica, at Salinas: near Mayaguez in coast districts toward Guanajibo. 

 Bermuda (Hemsley), South Florida (Chapman . Bahama Bitchcock . Cuba, Jamaica, 

 Haiti. St. Thomas, St. Croix Eggers . Antigua Grisebach . Guadeloupe do. . Marie 

 Galante, Martinique, St. Lucia, St. Vincent. Union (Kew Bull. no. 81, p. 248 

 cosmopolitan of the Tropics, often found on the Beashore. 



