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domingi nsis 



2. L. 



glaucifolins. 



3. L. 



latifolius. 



PERKINS THE LEGUMINOSAE OF PORTO RICO. 1 95 



or aearly straight, the obtuse petals .-li'_ r htly «•« »h<-rinLr along the back; upper stamen 

 free at the base, sometimes united \\ ii li I li«- of here in ;i closed tube; ovarj more or lese 

 stalked, biovulate or multiovulate; style filiform; stigma small, terminal pod oblong 

 or elongated, membranous or coriaceous, flat, indehiscent, the Btyle gear terminal, 

 persistent, sutures not winged bul tin- upper sometimes laterally dilated; seedt I or _'. 

 rarely more, flat, almosl reniform or orbicular. Trees or wood) climbers; leavee 

 imparipinnate; leaflets opposite rarely with stipele stipules small, narrow; flowers 

 violet, purple, or white in simple racemes or raceme-like panicle-, usually in pairs 

 or clusters along the rachis; bracts ami bracteoles usually -mall, deciduous, moo- 

 rarely persistent. 



KEY TO THE SPECIES. 



Flowers usually in pairs along the rachis; Leaflets glabrous; stand- 

 ard usually sericeous on the outer surface: pod oblong or linear, 

 the upper suture, especially near the seeds, with a projecting 

 ridge; flowers rose-colored. 



Standard callous or aurieulate at the base; leaflets 7 to II. 



(Section Neuroscaphi Benth.) 

 Standard not callous or aurieulate at the base; leaflets 5 or 7. 

 Flowers many, usually small; standard glabrous or thinly silky 

 on the outer surface; sutures of the pod not dilated or thick- 

 ened. (Section Densiflori Benth.) 



1. Lonchocarpus domingensis (Pers.) DC. 



(Urban, 2!><i. i 



» 



Tree 15 meters high, young branches brown-tomentose becoming glabrous; Leaves 

 17 to 19 cm. long; petiole about 3 cm. long; leaflets 7 to 11, most frequently 7. oval 

 or oblong, 5 to 12 cm. long, 2.5 to 5 cm. broad, coriaceous, glabrous on both sides, 

 the apex shortly acuminate, cuheate at the base; flowers in axillary raceme-, pale 

 violet to rose-colored, in clusters of 2 on a short branchlet, with a space between; 

 racemes about 20 cm. long; pedicels 3 mm. long; calyx (i mm. Long, brown-tomentose; 

 standard 1.4 mm. long, orbicular, the outside silky; pod usually 2 or3-seeded, •"> to 10 

 cm. long, at the seeds about 2 cm. wide, constricted between the seeds, compressed, 

 almost woody, slightly brown-tomentose or glabrous. 



Near Guayanilla, close to the bank of the river at Los tndios; mar Guanica, by 

 the river at Barinas; near Cabo Rojo* around Hacienda Garcia; near Mayaguez. 

 Jamaica (Bentham), Haiti, Guadeloupe, Martinique. 



2. Lonchocarpus glaucifolius lib 

 (Urban, 297.) 



Shrub with climbing branches or tree "> to s meters high; Leaves 5 or 7-foliolate; leaf- 

 lets elliptical or elliptical-oblong, rounded at the apex or shortly and obtusely acu- 

 minate, obtuse or rounded at the base, 4 to 13 mm. long, 2 to 7 cm. wide, glabrous, \ eins 

 on the upper surface impressed; inflorescence <i to I l-lloweied. in lax racemes; calyx I 

 mm. deep; flowers rose-colored; standard orbicular, 12 to L5 nun. long; wings 1 mm. 

 wide; pod linear or broadly linear, 6 to 11 cm. Long, 1 t<> L.5 cm. wide. 2 to 7-seeded, 

 coriaceous; seeds oval-reniform. !) mm. long, 5 nun. wide, dark brown. 



In the primeval mountain forests mar Rincon at Calvache; near A.guada on Mount 

 Piedra Blanca and in the mountain forests at Rio Grande; near A.guadilla, in the moun- 

 tains at Bspinal; near Quebradillas al Carlo Grande. Indigenous. 



Local name. geno. 



