Bread And Cheese

Pithecellobium unguis-cati (L.) Mart. Hort. Monac. 188. 1829
Mimosa Unguis-cati L. Sp. PI. 517. 1753.
Mimosa guadalupensis Vers. Syn. 2: 262. 1806.
Inga guadalupensis Desv. Journ. Bot. 1: 70. 1814.
Spiroloba Unguis Raf. Svlva Tell. 1 19. 1838.
Feuilleea Unguis-cati Kuntze. Rev. Gen. PI. 184. 1891.
Zygia Unguis-cati Sudw. U. S. Dept. Agr. For. Bull. 14: 248. 1897.
Pithecolobium flavovirens Britton, Bull. N. Y. Bot. Gard. 3: 442. 1905.
A shrub up to 6 m. high, rarely a small tree 8 m. high, usually armed with stipular spines 2 cm. long or less, the foliage glabrous. Petioles 5-20 mm. long, bearing a round gland at the summit; pinnae 2, each with one pair of obliquely obovate or oblong, obtuse, thin leaflets, 1-5 cm. long; heads slender-peduncled, in terminal racemes, often numerous; calyx about 2 mm. long; corolla 5-6 ram. long; stamens yellowish or pinkish, the tube included; legume coiled or curved, red, compressed, somewhat constricted between the seeds, 5-10 cm. long, about 7 mm. wide; seeds nearly black, shining, 4-6 mm. broad.
Type locality: Jamaica.
Distribution: Florida; West Indies; Venezuela.

Perennial, Trees, Shrubs, Woody throughout, Nodules present, Stems erect or ascending, Stems or branches arching, spreading or decumbent, Stems greater than 2 m tall, Trunk or stems armed with thorns, spines or prickles, Stems solid, Stems or young twigs glabrous or sparsely glabrate, Leaves alternate, Leaves petiolate, Extrafloral nectary glands on petiole, Stipules conspicuous, Stipules persistent, Stipules free, Stipules spinose or bristles, Leaves compound, Leaves bipinnate, Leaf or leaflet margins entire, Leaflets opposite, Leaflets 4, Leaves glabrous or nearly so, Inflorescences racemes, Inflorescences globose heads, capitate or subcapitate, Inflorescence terminal, Bra cts very small, absent or caducous, Bracteoles present, Flowers actinomorphic or somewhat irregular, Calyx 5-lobed, Calyx glabrous, Petals united, valvate, Petals greenish yellow, Stamens numerous, more than 10, Stamens monadelphous, united below, Filaments glabrous, Style terete, Fruit a legume, Fruit unilocular, Fruit freely dehiscent, Fruit strongly curved, falcate, bent, or lunate, Fruit twisted, Fruit spirally coiled or contorted, Fruit exserted from calyx, Fruit compressed between seeds, Fruit glabrous or glabrate, Fruit red, Fruit 3-10 seeded, Seeds ovoid to rounded in outline, Seed surface smooth, Seeds olive, brown, or black, Seeds with appendage - aril, caruncle, funiculus, or strophiole.