swartyt (swart i)

[ And proudly roll'st thy swarty chariot-wheels Over the heaps of wounds and carca es. Fletcher, Bonduc a, iii. 1. Swartzia (swärt'si-ä), n. [NL. (Schreber, 1789), named after Olaus Swartz (born 1760, died about 1818), a Swedish botanist.] A genus of leguminous trees, of the suborder Papilionaceæ, type of the tribe Swartzieæ. It is characterized by a variously ruptured calyx, which is entire and roundish in the bud; a corolla usually consisting of a single broad corrugated banner-petal or sometimes wanting; numerous and curving stamens which are nearly or quite free; and a coriaceous or fleshy ovoid or elongated pod. There are nearly 60 species, natives of tropical America, except one which is African. The leaves are odd-pinnate or sometimes reduced to a single leaflet; the flowers are commonly borne in clustered or panicled racemes. They are mostly large forest-trees yielding a very hard and durable timber. S. to mentos a, the panococo or palo santo tree of Guiana, becomes 60 feet high and 3 feet thick. Its bark, called panococo - bark, is a powerful sudorific, and yields a red juice which hardens into a blackish resin. S. grandiflora, of the West Indies and southward, a small tree or shrub known as naranjillo amarillo, also yields a valuable and very heavy wood.