. 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. Cats-Claw 515 I, CATS-CLAW — Pithecolobium Unguis-Oati (Linnaeus) Martius Mimosa Unguis-Cati Linnasus. Zygia Unguis-Cati Sudworth This small tree or straggling shrub inhabits sandy soils of southern peninsular Florida and the Keys, and occurs southward throughout the West Indies into tropical America; its maximum height is 8 meters, with a trunk diameter of 2 dm.; it is also called Long pod and Florida cats-claw. The bran
. 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. Cats-Claw 515 I, CATS-CLAW — Pithecolobium Unguis-Oati (Linnaeus) Martius Mimosa Unguis-Cati Linnasus. Zygia Unguis-Cati Sudworth This small tree or straggling shrub inhabits sandy soils of southern peninsular Florida and the Keys, and occurs southward throughout the West Indies into tropical America; its maximum height is 8 meters, with a trunk diameter of 2 dm.; it is also called Long pod and Florida cats-claw. The branches are irregular and spiny, forming a flat-topped tree. The bark is about 6 mm. thick, shaUowly fissured into reddish brown plates. The twigs are slender, angular at first, usually zigzag, brown to dark brown, the straight, stiff stipular spines 15 mm. long or less. The leaves are persistent, evenly bipinnate; the slender leaf-stalk is 3 to 4 cm. long, slightly grooved, with a large orbicular gland at the end; there is only one pair of 2-foHolate pinnae on slender, glandular stalks 6 to 12 mm. long; the leaflets are membranous, obhquely obovate or oval, 2 to 4 cm. long, rounded or short-pointed, broadly wedge- shaped at the base, entire or slightly wavy on the margin, hght green and shining above, paler beneath. The flowers appear from March to September, in slender terminal or axillary panicles of globose heads about 2 cm. in di- ameter; calyx bell-shaped, 5-lobed, about 2 mm. long and about one fourth the length of the smooth, sharp-pointed petals; the numerous purplish stamens are twice as long as the corolla, their filaments united into a tube for half their length; ovary stalked; style filiform. The fruit is compressed, 8 to 12 cm. long, 6 to 12 mm. wide, much twisted and contorted, thick, leathery, long-stalked, rounded at the apex, thickened at the margins, hght red-brown, at length spUtting through the thickened margins; the seeds are irregularly obovate, somewhat c
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