Schizolobium
(from schizo, to split, and lobos, a pod; probably alluding to the dehiscence of the pod). ORD. Leguminosae. A genus comprising two (?) species of tall, stove, evergreen trees, one from Brazil, and the other (perhaps a variety) a native of Panama. Flowers racemose; calyx segments imbricated, reflexed; petals five, unguiculate, ovate or rounded; stamens ten, free; racemes axillary or paniculate at the tips of the branches; bracts small. Pods one-seeded. Leaves bipinnate, ample; leaflets numerous, small. S. excelsum has been introduced, and requires culture similar to that recommended for Caesalpinia.
S. excelsum (lofty). fl. yellow; peduncles glabrous; pedicels adpressedly pilose. l. eighteen-jugate; leaflets 2in. long, about twenty-jugate, oblong, very shortly petiolulate, white beneath, and golden-pilose on the middle nerve; common petiole often 2ft. long, glabrous. h. (in Brazil) 120ft. 1874.