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Dalbergia hecastophyllum I. Taub., a plant common in maritime thickets, has 

 Bolitary Leaflets, l<> Btamens, and a pod thai is nearly round, while the only other 

 Porto Rican species, />. monetaria, has 3 to 5 Leaflets, 9 stamens, and an oblong pod. 



Local names, maray-maray, palo d* polio. 



L'. Dalberg-ia monetaria l>. l. 



Urban, 



Shrub 2 to 1 meters high; stems firm, woody, wide climbing; Leaves L5 to 17 cm. 

 Long; Leaflets 8 to l:'> cm. Long, I to 5.5 cm. wide.; flowers in -mall panicles in the axils 

 of ili«' leaves', L.5 to 3 cm. Long; calyx 5 nun. deep, green; corolla more than twice as 

 long as the calyx, while or yellow-white; anthers yellow, becoming brown; mature 

 l'rnit brown. 



Near Bayamon in mountain thickets and woods; Sierra de Luquillo, in the woods 

 between Mavi and Mount Jimenez; near Juncos on the river bank; near Eato < rrande, 

 on ili*- shady river bank opposite Mount Gregorio; near Yabucoa, on the edge of the 

 forests at Jacana, in primeval forests a1 Guayavota, and in La Panduraal Santa Elena; 

 near A-ibonito; near [Jtuado, on the edge of the primeval foresl at San Andres and in 



copses on the Rio Grande River at Saltillo Ajrriba; near Maricao in rqpuntain w Is; 



near Sabana Grande in the woods near the cataract of Estero River; near Mayaguez. 

 Cuba (Grisebach), Haiti. Guadeloupe, Martinique, St. Vincent, Grenada, Trinidad. 

 Tropical America, north Brazil, Cayenne. Surinam. British Guiana. 



Local names, polo d* brasilete, membHllo. 



46. DREPANOCARPUS G. I\ \Y. Mey. 



VrepanocatpusQ. V. W. Mkv. Prim. PI. Esseq. 236. 1818. 

 Nephrosis Rich.; DC. Prod. 2: 420. L825. 

 Orucaria .1 1 ss. : I >< . Loc. cit. 



Calyx campanulate, obtuse at the base, truncate at the apex, the teeth short; 

 standard broadly ovate or orbicular, on the outside silky; wings oblong, often falcate; 

 keel incurved, its petals connate at the hack; stamens all connate in a sheath slit 

 above, or both above and below, or more rarely the upper one free; ovary short- 

 Btalked, 1- (rarely 2-) ovulate; style slender, incurved; stigma small, terminal: pod 

 falcate or Buborbicular, compressed, thick-leathery, the upper suture intruse, the 

 lower very much arched, with I Large, reniform, compressed seed. Erect treeor high- 

 climbing shrub; leaves imparipinnate; leaflets usually alternate: stipules often spinous; 

 flowers small or moderately large, purple, violet, or white; racemes short, fascicled or 

 branched, axillary or in terminal panicles; brads small, caducous; bracteoles under 

 the calyx orbicular, persistent. 



1. Drepanocarpus lunatus (L. f. <-. I •'. W. Mey. 



i Urban, 296.) 



An erect hush or small tree 2 to 3 meters high, with linn glabrous branches and with 

 diarp. subfalcate spines from the nodes; pet ioles short ; rachis 5 to io cm. long; Leaflets 

 .") to 11. short-stalked, oblanceolate or oblong, :;."> to ."> cm. long, blunt, rigidly coria- 

 ceous, both sides glabrous, the veins slightly raised; panicles copious, axillary and 

 terminal: calyx glabrous, <i mm. deep; corolla lilac. 6.5 to 8.5 mm. deep; pod L.8 em. 

 broad, curved round so that tin- point touches the base, subligenous, the curve :: to 

 3.5 cm. broad; pedicel <; mm. Long. 



Near Bayamon, in the forest at Palo Seco; near Los Mameyes, in the Manglar swamp 

 at I. a Carmelita; near Eumacao, in littoral thickets near Punta Candela; near Maun- 

 abo, in thickets at Punta de Tuna: near Mayaguez. Haiti. St. Thomas, St. Croix 



