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104 FABACEM SMITHSONUN CONTRIBUTIONS TO BOTANY
1. Leaflets 10-20 pairs on each pinna, -1 cm long
........................ E. polyphylla
....................... E. polystachya
1. Leaflets 6-8 pairs on each pinna, -2.5 cm long
Entada polyphylla
En~ada polyphylla Bentham, 1840:133.
Entadopsispolyphylla (Bentham) Brittm in North Amer. Fl., 1928,23:191.
Liane pak, liane paques.
herto Rico to Brazil; 100-300 m on east side of Dominica:
Carib Reserve (Stehlk 6376,641 7), sterile but a new record.
Entada polystachya
En@ polystachyn (haeus) A.P. Candolle, 1825,2424.
Mimosa polystachyn Linnaeus, 1753520, “polystochia.”
Entadopsis polystachya (Linnaeus) Britton in North Amer. Fl., 1928,23:191.
Neompics; only once collected on Dominica: sine loc.
(Imray I 85 at K) .
Erythrina Linnaeus (Faboid)
Erythrina poeppigiana (Walpers) Cook has been collected in
cultivation with cocoa at Clarke Hall (Chambers 2704) and
below Springfield (Nicolson 4090, Whitefoord 5836). It has a
rather narrowly obovate standard almost equaled by the narrow
keel and tiny wings; the stipels are large; the pod is chartaceous
with brown seeds.
Erythrina corallodendron
&thriM corallodendron Linnaeus, 1753:706.--Krukoff, 1939:212,-
Krukoff & Barneby, 1914399.
Bois immortelle, immortelle, coral tree.
Tree to 3 m; leaflets 3, rhombic, stipels inconspicuous; calyx
truncate; standard narrow, to 5 cm long, the free keel petals and
wings -1 cm long; pods linear, strongly constricted between
seeds; seeds solid red (in Ernst 1988, Whitefoord 5780, Wilbur
8243).
Supposed to be native to Jamaica and Haiti and believed
cultivated in Bahamas; in dry areas along west coast of
Dominica: ridge north of Cocoa Center (Ernst 1988), Gabriel
(Wilbur 8243), Grand Savanne (Ernst 1648), Lisdara (Hodge
2474, fl.), Pointe Ronde (Hodge 2685, fl.), Portsmouth road
(Whitefoord 5780), Providence Valley (Hodge 2054, fl.), South
Chiltern (Hodge 1585, fl.). Flowering February-June, seeds in
August- April.
I am surprised by the solid red seeds on three specimens,
distinctive for the type variety of the species. The seeds are
supposed to be bicolored, l/3 black and 2/3 red, typical of
Erythrina corallodendron var. bicolor Krukoff, supposedly
endemic to the Lesser Antilles. The information on our
specimens gives no indication of cultivation, but of natural
occurrence in uncultivated dry woodlands.
Krukoff (1939:276) reported two Dominican collections as
var. bicolor: Ramage s.n. at K and Lloyd 848 at NY.
Hodge and Taylor (1957563) reported that the Caribs use
the trees “as living and permanent (“immortal”) boundary or
fence posts.” A tea is made from the leaves. This based on a
Hodge collection (2054) identified by them as E. coralloden-
&on var. bicolor.
Adjanohoun et al. (1985: 153, pl. 119) reported medicinal use
of a leaf infusion to treat wounds.
Flemingia Roxburgh ex W.T. Aiton, nom. cons. (Faboid)
Flemingia sb-obiltfera
Flemingia strobilifera (Linnaeus) W.T Aitm, 1812,4:350.
Hedysarum srrobiliferum Linnaeus, 1753:746.
Moghania strobilifera (Linnaeus) St. Hilaire ex Kuntze, 1891, 1:199.
Zeb crare.
Shrub to 2 m; leaves l-foliolate, gland-dotted beneath;
inflorescence of small cymes enclosed by large, persistent
bracts; calyx lobes f equal, lanceolate, almost including
flowers; pod short, turgid, l-2-seeded.
Native of Asia, widely naturalized; common in disturbed
areas of Dominica: Clarke Hall (Chambers 2696), Lisdara
(Hodge 2941), La Plaine (Whitefoord 5360, Mahaut (Morden
2), Milton Estate (Hodge 2551), Ridgefield (Hodge 2122),
South Chiltem (Hodge 1487), Wallhouse (Eggers 631).
Galactia Browne (Faboid)
Perennial vines (some shrubby) with pinnately 3-fOhOlate
leaves; flowers racemose, axillary; calyx 4-lobed, the lobes
acute, usually longer than tube; standard orbicular to obovate,
appendaged with 2 inflexed auricles, equally keeled, wings
narrow, adherent to the narrow, straight keel; stamens 9+1;
styles glabrous; pod elongated, flattened, 2-valved, severalseeded.
Galactia dubia A.P. Candolle was reported for Dominica by
Vtlez (1957: 101) based on V6lez’s personal recognizance.
This epithet seems eminently appropriate since it (and its
differences from other “species”) seems quite dubious to me.
Dr. V. Rudd (US) annotated the covers of G. dubia as =
Galactia tenuiflora (Willdenow) Wight and Amott. Burkhart
(1971:709) recognized Galactia dubia and reduced G. tenuiflora
to Galactia striata (Jacquin) Urban var. tenuiflora
(Willdenow) Burkart (1971:721). Gillett et al. (in Milne-
Redhead and Polhill, 1971, Legum. Papil., (2):579) accepted G.
tenuiflora, warning that G. striura might be the correct name.
1. Corolla 20-26 mm long; calyx lobes >0.5 mm long
.......................... G. rubra
1. Corolla 7-15 mm long; calyx lobes c0.5 mm long
.......................... G.striata