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ICHTHYOMETHIA PISCIPULA.
Jamaica
Ichthyomethia Piscipula, A. S. Hitchcock, Garden andForest, i v . 472.
® r ythrina Piscipula, Linnseus, Spec. 707 .
■Piscidia Erythrina, Linn®us, Syst. Nat. ed. 10, 1155,Spec. ed. 2, 993. — Jacquin, Enum. PI. Carib. 27 ; Stirp.Am. 209; Hist. Select. Stirp. Am. 102. —Miller, Diet.ed - 8, Ho. 1.— Swartz, Obs. 276.— Lamarck, Diet . i.433. — Willdenow , Spec. iii. 919. — Titford, Hort. Sot.Am. 84. — Lunan, Hort. Jam. i. 269. — Kunth , Syn. iv.73 -~ Humboldt , Bonpland & Kunth, Nov. Gen. et Spec.vi - 382. _D e Candolle, Prodr. ii. 267. — Poiret, Lam.Fict. 111. iii. 163, t. 605.—Sprengel, Syst. iii. 228.—^escourtilz, FI. Med. Antil. iii. 203, t. 196. — Spach,Fist. Peg. i. 266. — Don, Gen. Syst. ii. 242. — Macfadyen,
Dogwood.
Fl . Jam. 258.—Nutt all, Sylva, ii. 31, t. 52.—Dietrich,Syn. iv. 1224. — Bentham, Jour. Linn. Soc. iv. Suppl.116; Bat. Voy. Sulphur, 81. — Chapman, Fl. 110. —Grisebach, Fl . Brit. W. Ind. 200. — Hemsley, Bot. Biol.Am. Cent. i. 319. — Sauvalle, Fl . Cub. 32. — Sargent,Forest Trees N. Am. 10 th Census U. S. ix. 57.
P. Carthagenensis, Jacquin, Enum. PI. Carib. 27; Stirp.Am. 210 ; Hist. Select. Stirp. Am. 103. — Linn»us, Spec.ed. 2, 993. — Willdenow , Spec. iii. 920. — Lunan, Hort.Jam. i. 270.—De Candolle , Prodr. ii. 267. — Sprengel,Syst. iii. 228. — Don, Gen. Syst. ii. 242. — : Spach, Hist.VSy. i. 266. — Macfadyen, Fl . Jam. 259. — Dietrich, Syn.iv. 1224.
P. Piscipula, Sargent, Garden and Forest, iv. 436.
Opright-p. r • ^ ° r * n height, with a trunk often two or three feet in diameter and stout
a n of ^' SOme ^ mes con i ;oi 'ted branches forming an irregular head. The bark of the trunk is
^tariebletg wh ^ a hght red-brown surface which divides into small square scales. The
Su ftiiner and ' h ^ a f^ 6ar are coa ^ ec ^ w hh thick rufous pubescence which disappears during the
Marked by hi ^ ^ W ™^ er ^ e y are glabrous or glabrate, bright reddish brown, and conspicuouslym Florida ar J * on gitudinal lenticular white spots and large elevated leaf-scars. The leaves, whichft ihe inches ' eciduous early spring, appear after the flowering period. They are from four toextended for W1 th stout petioles slightly enlarged at the base, the rachis being sometimes
three to f 0U r ^ ^ ^ ^ e ^ ween the upper pair and the terminal leaflet. The leaflets are fromthick petiolu] h ]f ^5 ^ nC ^ eS * n l en &th and an inch and a half to nearly two inches in breadth, with
°h slender f ] • f l on g’ The flowers are three quarters of an inch in length, and are borne
b ro hiinent ^1 6 ! are SOm etimes an inch and a half long, and which appear jointed from the
times ten " Persistent scars left by the falling of the bractlets. The flower-clusters are sorne-than two to f ^ nC ^ eS * n l en gth, with long graceful few-flowered branches, or often are not more
a,1 d ] n p] or * i lne h es i° n gj compact, and densely flowered. They appear in Martinique in February,branches tbf> t *** ^ a ^,’ and as they are produced in great quantities near the ends of all the
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"^he fruit ri e 1668 ^ ^ an ^ SOme an<£ conspicuous at the flowering time, although bare of leaves. 1t° an jo,.], ^ , S la an( i August, and is light brown, three or four inches long, and from an inchfchth ^ a ia ^ across i'be thin papery wings.
' v here it occur ^ SC ^ u ^ a * s one o£ £ be commonest of the tropical trees which grow in Florida ,fr °m the „ ‘ 1 . 1 , 11 ^ ie S ^° ieS ^ a y Bisca yne, on many of the southern keys, and on the west coastoccur« ‘ ^ or hood of Pease Creek to Cape Sable. It abounds in many of the West India islands,Th ln SouBlern Mexico.
tis descri P tion o£ Ichthyomethia Piscipula was published in 1689 by Paul Hermann in
<W«i Ratavi Prodromus. 2
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° ri h t hose noti “s (Bull. U. S. Nat. Mus. No. 13, 45) that
ual s which are going to flower drop their leaves.
Coral arbor polyphylla non spinosa, 329.
P WoZo affinis Arbor Indica Coral dicta polyphyllos, non spinosa,MtS ^bus, subhirsutis, Plukenet, Phyt. 1 . 104, f. 3; Aim. Bot. 293.