. North American trees : being descriptions and illustrations of the trees growing independently of cultivation in North America, north of Mexico and the West Indies . Trees. 5i6 The Cats-Claws 2. BLACK BEADâPithecolobium guadalupense Chapman A small unarmed tree or shrub growing in sandy or rocky soil of the Florida Keys and the Bahamas, where it attains a height of 6 meters, with a trunk diameter of dm. The branches are irregular, forming a flattish topped, irregular head. The bark is about 5 mm. thick, shghtly fissured, red- brown internally and dark gray externally. The twigs are stout
. North American trees : being descriptions and illustrations of the trees growing independently of cultivation in North America, north of Mexico and the West Indies . Trees. 5i6 The Cats-Claws 2. BLACK BEADâPithecolobium guadalupense Chapman A small unarmed tree or shrub growing in sandy or rocky soil of the Florida Keys and the Bahamas, where it attains a height of 6 meters, with a trunk diameter of dm. The branches are irregular, forming a flattish topped, irregular head. The bark is about 5 mm. thick, shghtly fissured, red- brown internally and dark gray externally. The twigs are stout, roughened by numer- ous lenticels, red-brown or grayish brown. The lea-^-es are persistent, evenly bipinnate; their leaf-stalk is 2 to 3 cm. long, deeply grooved, with a large conic gland at the end; there are 2, sometimes 4 pinnae, with stalks I to 2 cm. long, abruptly thickened at the base; the sessile leaflets are thick and leath- er}-, obhquely obovate to nearly orbicular, 4 to 7 cm. long, rounded, shallowly notched or seldom bluntly pointed, rounded or tapering at the unequal base, entire and revolute on the margin, Ught green and veiny, with stout prominent midrib. The. Fig. 476.â Black Bead. ' '-.^/'^ 't/j/'--V.' '.'wWR!!^>?Xt '^J- .'â -â -â¢J'- ^-iiy^'^-â â "'â¢^'â ^â ^^'-â â . â ^'- ?-/<;â *i|#fc'''. ,;%.,^g^g^::4^;v^^s:^_- ..'â r ^- - ^":-':-^^---' , ~t''$r^-i^^*^i:r-. â jsitev^'t^L,. Fig. 477. â Black Bead, Inagua, Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Britton, Nathaniel Lord, 1859-1934; Shafer, John Adolph. New York : H. Holt and Co.
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