1 ( .>*> NTBIBUTI0N8 I i:< - M nil NTATIONAL 9EBBABIUM. 



Lonchocarpiu Latifoliui Willd II B. K. 



I rban, 297. 1 



Tree 6 to l'<> meters high; leaflets 5 to 9, oval-oblong, acuminate, paler and minutely 

 puberulous beneath, or glabrescenl . 5 to l"> cm. long, 2 5 to •"> cm. wide, subcori* 

 inflorescence densely racemose, 7.5 to L2 cm. long, many-flowered ; calyx 2 2 nun. deep; 

 flowers purple, 8.5 to 11 mm. deep; standard thinly silky; pod oblong or broadly linear, 

 5 i" 7.5 cm. long, 1.7 to 2. 1 cm. broad, I or 2-seeded, oo1 ;ii all, or somewhat constricted 

 between the seeds, flat, thin, glabrescent. 



Near Bayamon, in woods al Palo Seco; Sierra de Luquillo in thewoods on Mount 

 Jimenez; near Quebradillas on the bank of the river; aear Manati in thickets on the 

 coast, and al Abra de los Muertos. Cuba (Wright), Jamaica, Haiti. St. Kins. Guade- 

 loupe, Dominica. Martinique Sieber), St. Lucia, St. Vincent, Trinidad. Common 

 also in Hi*- adjoining parts of South America. Central America to Nicaragua. The 

 hard wood is used in making furniture (Cook and Collins, p. 178 



Local names, polo hediondo, forU ventura. 



49. PISCIDIA L. 



Piscidia L. SyBt. ed. LO. 2: L155. L759. 



Calyx Bubcampanulate, with the teeth short and wide, the two upper ones Blightly 

 adhering; standard orbicular; wings oblong-falcate, adhering to ijic obtuse keel ; petals 

 of the keel cohering along the hack; upper stamen free at the base, united with the 

 others at the middle in a closed tube; ovary sessile with numerous seeds; style reflex ed, 

 lil i form, the stigma small, terminal; pod linear, flat, each suture widening into 2- veined 

 wings; seeds ovate, compressed. Tree with imparipinnate leaves; leaflets opposite; 

 flowers white and blood-red, in short panicles; bracts opposite on the pedicel, subel- 

 liptic, Bubcoriaceous, caducous. 



I. Piscidia piscipula (L.) Sarg. 



i Urban, i ,( .i7. i 



Tree 20 meters high; leaflets 3 to 5-jugate, pubescenl or glabrescent . oblong or ellip- 

 tical, pointed or blunt; flowers L.2 to 1.6 cm. long; wings each 1.2 to i.i; cm. broad, 

 transversely striate, lacerate or repand ; legume ■"> to io cm. long, 8 mm. broad, puberu- 

 lous; Beede 6 t-> 8, transversely oblong, black, 7 mm. long. 



In thickets and forests on the coast near Fajardo and near Salinas de Cabo Etojo. 

 South Florida (Chapman), Florida Keys (Sargent), Bahama (Grisebach), Jamaica, 

 Haiti. St. Thomas, St. Croix, St. John (Eggers), St. Martin (Stockholm Herbarium), 

 St. Bartholomew do.), Antigua (Grisebach), Guadeloupe, St. Lucia (Grisebach), St. 

 Vincent. Barbados, Grenada, South Mexico. Southern parts of North America. 



Local name, n ntura. 



50. ANDIRA ham. 



Vouacapoua Aim,. Hist. PI. Gui. 2: Suppl. ". /'/. ■ >'.■>■ I77~>. 

 Andira Lam. Encyc. 1: 171. L783. 



Calyx broadly campanulate or subturbinate, truncate, with short indistinct teeth; 

 petals clawed ; standard suborbicular; wings and petals of the keel nearly straight . oblong, 



obtuse, the latter imbricate bul not connate on the back; upper stamen free, or rarely 

 connate with the rest ; (.vary stipilate or rarely sessile. 2 Io 1- I rarely 1- 1 ovulate; Btyle 

 short, incurved; stigma small, terminal; pod drupaceous, ovoid <»r obovoid, often some- 



