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Smithsonian Institution / https://www.si.edu/object/nmnhbotany_10491119IMAGE INFORMATION

Bois d'almarie (leaves, seed)

Object Status:

Unlocated

Accession Date:

December 1773

Primary Source Reference:

"Vegetaux de St. Domingue ramassées dans mon Second voyage," December 1773, Du Simitière Scraps, Library Company of Philadelphia, No. 55, p. 4

Notes:

This species may have been Abarema jupunba, which was known as dalmarie in the Lesser Antilles. Catalogue of the Seed Plants of the West Indies, Department of Botany, National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution / https://naturalhistory2.si.edu/botany/WestIndies/catalog.htm

Specimen Type:

Dead/preserved

Du Simitière's Common Name:

Bois d'almarie