L76 >NTBIBUTIONS FROM THE NATIONAL HERBARIUM. 



I. Barbieria pinnate P( • Baill.a 



l ri.Mii. 284. 



II. rb or undershrub, O.fi to i meters high; leaflet* 15 to 2] . oblong or ovate-oblong, 

 Btipellate, 2 to i cm. Long, I to L.25 cm. wide, mucronate, membranous, with scattered 

 luur- above, appieesed -sericeous below; racemes 8 to LO cm. long; flowers vermilion; 

 calyx tube I" mm. long, calys teeth LO mm. Long, colored; corolla 5 to 6 mi. Long; 

 standard twice as Long as the cal) i ; pod •"» to 6.5 cm. Long, 6 nun. broad, pilose 

 black. 



Near Bayamon, in Bhady places; near Utuado, on Blopes at Pellejas; near Maricao, 

 on Blopes; near Lares, on shady slopes al Palma Llanos; near Mayaguez, on Mount 

 M--.i and al Mayaguez- Arriba; near Aguada, in the forests al Piedra Blanca. Cuba, 

 Haiti, tropica] South America. 



Noticeable arc the Long calyx and showy red flowers oi this Bpecies. h has also 

 Long, pinnate Leaves, with many leaflets, which arc pubeecenl on the Lower surface. 



I al name. < nredadera. 



33. GLIRICIDIA II. 15. K. 



GltricUHa II. B. K. Nov. Gen. & Sp. 6: 392, 393. L823. 



Calyx teeth broad, short, the two upper ones subconnate; Btandard Large, reflexed, 

 sometimes with a pair of indexed auricles al the base; win^ arcuate-oblong, trans- 

 versely plicate, free; keel obtuse, indexed: upper stamen free, the rest connate, 

 forming a sheath: anther- uniform; ovary stipitate, multiovulate; style awl-shaped, 

 indexed, glabrous, or beneath the stigma somewhat hairy: stigma small, terminal; 

 pod stalked, broadly linear, unwinged, 2-valved, not septate within, the valves 

 coriaceous.— Trees or shrubs; leaves Lmparipinnate; leaflets entire, qo! Btipellate; 

 Btipules small: flowers rose-colored, in axillary racemes, or in fascicles on the old 

 wood: bracts and bracteoles small or wanting. 



1. Gliricidia sepiurn (Jacq.) Steud. 

 (Urban, 284. 



Tree 8 meters high or higher: Leaflets 9 to 17. ovate-oblong or ovate-lanceolate, 

 broadly acuminate. <»btusc at the apex. :;.."> to 6.5 cm. Long, L.5 to 2 cm. wide, Bubcc- 

 riaceous, subglabrous; dowers in many-flowered racemes, rose-colored ; calyx with 5 

 very small teeth, glabrous or slightly pilose outside, I to 5 mm. deep; standard 20 to 

 25 mm. long, rose-colored, yellow above the base, keel Lnflexed; ovary glabrous: pod 

 lo to 20 cm. Long, l.l to 2 cm. broad, subligneous. 



NearAnasco. Nol indigenous in Porto Rico, but introduced from Cuba (Gundlach ; 

 Jamaica Bansen); Haiti (Picarda); Domingo (Millspaugh). — Mexico, Nicaragua, 

 Guatemala, Yucatan, Panama. 



In the specimen- from Mexico and Yucatan the flowers are irregularly .-[lotted and 

 Btriped with brownish-purple, and Urban makes of them a new form forma maculata 

 lib.: Robinia maculata H. B. K. . According to Preuss, this tree b much used in 

 Nicaragua for shading coffee and cacao. It is also grown for hedj 



Local name-: Nicaragua, madn <l< cacao, math, -a negra Preuss ; Cuba, bien vestida 

 (Gruner); Mexico, cacaguananchi I Lamb); < larthagena, mata mi on or mat on (Jacquin). 



a Cook and Collins, p. 89, as Barbieria polyphyila. 



