Inventory 65, Seeds and Plants Imported. 



PLATE IV. 



A Magnificent Flowering Tree from Eastern Guatemala. (Phyl- 



LOCARPUS SEPTENTRIONALIS DONN.-SmITH; S. P. I. NO. 51409.) 



This tree, the flor de mico, as it is called in Guatemala, may be compared with the royal poinci- 

 ana when in bloom, though the individual flowers are smaller than in that species. The 

 great masses and deeper scarlet color more than compensate for their smaller size, however; 

 and since the tree is semideciduous at flowering time, the general effect is even more brilliant 

 than that of the poinciana. It flowers in January and February. (Photographed by Wilson 

 Popenoe, El Barranquillo, Guatemala, January 29, 1920; P17718FS.) 



