Guilandina bonduc L.

PLANTAE EXSICCATAE GRAYANAE
1358. Caesalpinia Crista L.
Sp. PI. ed. 1, 880 (l75S) non ed. 2 nec aliorum; Urb.
Symb. Ant. ii. 269 (1900), iv. 278 (1905); Merrill, In-
terp. Rumph. Herb. Amboin. 260 (1917); Hutchinson &
Dalziel, FI. W. Trop. Afr. i. 348, 349, fig. 135A (l928);
Irvine, PI. Gold Coast 69 (l930); Standley, Trees &
Shrubs of Mexico in Contrib. U.S. Nat. Herb, xxiii. 422
(1922).
Syn. Guilandina Bonduc L. Sp. PI. 381 (l753) non ed.
2, 545 (1762). G. bonducella L. Sp. PI. ed. 2, 545 (1762);
Lam. Encyc. Bot. i> 434 (l785) et 111. t. 336 (l823).
Caesalpinia bonducella (L.) Fleming in As. Res. xi. 159
(l810) ex Ind. Kew. i. 370, reprinted as Catal. Ind. Me-
dic. PI. & Drugs, 11 (1810); Bentham in Mart. FI. Bras,
xv. pt. 2, 65, t. 21 (1870); Oliver, FI. Trop. Afr. ii. 262
(l87l); Baker in Hooker, FI. Brit. Ind. ii. 254 (1879);
Hemsley, Biol. Centr.-Am. i. 324 (l880); Fawcett &
Rendle, FI. Jam. iv. pt. 2, 93, fig. 32 (l920). Caesalpinia
Bonduc (L.) Roxb., FI. Ind. ii. 362 (1833); Dandy &
Exell in Journ. Bot. lxxvi. 179 (l938); Macbride, FI.
Peru in Field Mus. Pub. Bot. xiii. pt. 3, 190 (l943).
Guilandina Crista (L.) Small, FI. Se. U.S. 591, 1331
(1903); Britton & Rose in N. Am. FI. xxiii. 337 (l930);
Degener, FI. Hawaiiensis, bk. i. fam. 169b (1932).
Sprawling vine with vicious recurved spines; stems very fragile;
petals yellow; seeds gray or lead-colored.
Hypoluxo Island, Palm Beach County, Florida.
Coll. R. A. Howard (no. 8048) December 12, 1945