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CALYCIFLORiE. 
A shrub, about 5 feet in height. : branches subterete, angu- 
lated, with the angles aculeolato-muricated, coloured. Leaflets 
rounded and mucronate at the apex : petiole muricated beneath. 
Stipules lanceolate, deciduous. Peduncles striated, aculeolato- 
muricated, elongating and becoming thicker as the fruit forms : 
pedicels ! an inch in length, slightly muricated. Flowers 
small in proportion. Standard clawed, of a yellow colour ex- 
ternally spotted with purple : wings oblong, free ; keel in 2 
pieces, slightly cohering for a short distance beneath. Ovary 
glabrous ; style curved : stigma obtuse. Legume 10-12 inches 
in length, cylindrical, tumid at the situations of the seeds, glab- 
rous, beaked with the persistent style, co-seeded : seeds oblong, 
slightly compressed. 
This species approaches very nearly S. exasperata of 
Kunth. 
XI. PlSCIDIA. 
Calyx campanulate, 5-fid. Keel obtuse. Stamens 
monadelphous, with the tenth free at the base. Style 
filiform, glabrous. Legume pedicelled, linear, fur- 
nished with 4 longitudinal membranaceous wings, in- 
terrupted with isthmi between the seeds. Seeds 
oval, compressed : hilum lateral : embryo curved : 
cotyledons elliptico-oblong, thickish : radicle hooked, 
inflected . — De Cand. 
West-India trees, with the leaves impari-pinnate. — Name, 
from piscis a fish; the bark, especially that of the root, being 
employed in poisoning fish. 
1. Piscidia Erythrina. Common Dogwood . 
Leaflets oblong or obovato-elliptic, racemes panicled 
axillary, stipe of the legumes 3 times longer than the 
calyx, wings interrupted. 
Coral arbor polyphylla non spinosa, fraxini folio siliqua alis 
foliaceis exstantibus rotse molendinai’iae fluviatilis aucta, Sloane, 
II. 39. t. 176. f. 45. — Ichthyomethia foliis pinnatis ovatis, ra- 
cemis terminalibus, siliquis quadrialatis, Broionc, 296 — Pisci- 
dia Erythrina, Swartz , Obs. 277. 
HAB. Common. 
FL. June, July. 
A tree, usually about 20 feet in height. Leaflets 3-I-paired 
with an odd one, petiolulated, oblong or obovato-elliptic, round- 
ed at the base, entire, pubescent on both sides when young, 
but subglabrous when old, paler with minute white dots be- 
neath. Racemes compound, axillary (terminal, Swartz :) ped- 
uncle 3-gonal, puberulous; divisions about an inch in length: 
