. 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. 548 Barbados Flower The wood is soft, weak, close-grained, whitish or yellowish; its specific gravity is about The delicate fohage and profusion of gorgeous flowers make this a very elegant shade tree for the tropics. Its long period of leaflessness, weak, easily broken branches, and the continuous dropping of its great pods, are, however, undesirable features. The genus includes 3 species or more, natives of Africa
. 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. 548 Barbados Flower The wood is soft, weak, close-grained, whitish or yellowish; its specific gravity is about The delicate fohage and profusion of gorgeous flowers make this a very elegant shade tree for the tropics. Its long period of leaflessness, weak, easily broken branches, and the continuous dropping of its great pods, are, however, undesirable features. The genus includes 3 species or more, natives of Africa; D. regia is the type. The name is Greek, in reference to the very evident claws of the petals. VIII. BARBADOS FLOWER GENUS POINCIANA [TOURNEFORT] LINN^US Species Poinciana pulcherrima Linnaeus Casalpinia pulcherrima Swartz ARBADOS FLOWER is a beautiful small tree, or more often a shrub, supposed to be a native of Barbados, but it now occurs so frequently throughout the tropics, both wild and in cultivation, that there is some doubt as to its original home. It is also known as Barbados pride. Flower fence, and Bird of paradise flower, and has become naturahzed in penin- sular Florida. Its maximum height is 4 meters, with a trunk diameter of 10 cm. The bark is thin, smooth or nearly so, and brown. The twigs are stout, smooth, sometimes armed with stout recurved prickles. The leaves are evenly bipinnate, 20 to 30 cm. long, in- cluding the long slender leaf-stalk. There are 4 to 12 pairs of pinna; 4 to 10 cm. long, with 6 to 18 pairs of leaflets; these are thick and leathery, oblong to obovate, 15 to 25 mm. long, blunt, notched or short-pointed at the apex, rounded or wedge-shaped at the base, bright green above, paler, smooth, and prominently veined beneath. The flowers, which appear throughout the year, are very showy, bright red, sometimes yellow, in terminal racemes or panicles, on slender pedicels 4 to 9 cm. long; the calyx is s-lobed, the lobes imbricated, the lower one the
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