WEST INDIA DOGWOOD 
Natural Order , Leguminos^e. Linnxan Classification , 
Diadelphia, Decandria. 
PISCIDIA, f (Linn.) 
Calyx campanulate, 5-toothed. Corolla papilionaceous, with the 
keel obtuse. Stamens monadelphous, with the 10th free at 
the base. Style filiform, glabrous. Legume pedicellated, 
linear, with 4 broad longitudinal wings, the seeds separated 
by interruptions in the pod. The seeds oval and compressed, 
with a lateral hylum; embryo curved; cotyledones thick and 
elliptic; the radicle inflected. — West India trees with decidu- 
ous, unequally pinnated leaves, produced after the develope- 
ment of the flowers. 
JAMAICA DOGWOOD. 
PISCIDIA Erythrina, foliolis ovatis , leguminis stipite 
calyce multo longiore , alls interrupts, 
Piscidia Erythrina, Linn. Sp. pi. Jacq. Amer. p. 206. Swartz, 
Obs. p. 277. Macfadyen, Flora of Jamaica, vol. 1 . p. 258. 
Ichthyomethia foliis pinnatis ovatis , racemis terminalibus , 
siliquis quadrialatis, Browne, Jamaica, p. 296. 
Coral arbor polyp hylla non spinosa, fraxini folio, siliqua alis 
foliaceis exstantibus rotx molendinarix fluviatilis aucta, 
Sloane, Jam., vol. 2. p. 32. tab. 176. fig. 4, 5. Lamarck, 
Illust., tab. 605. fig. A. 
Pseudo-acacia , siliquis alatis, Plumier, Icon. 229. tab. 233. 
f. 2. 
The Jamaica Dogwood is a native of the Antilles as 
t The name from piscis , a fish, in allusion to its employment 
as a fish poison. 
