LEGVUmOSJE. CCXLVI. Akoma. CCXLVIL Guilandina. CCXLVIIL Coulteria. 



429 



serted from the tube. Stamens 10, inclosed. Legume oblong, usually used by boys instead of marbles, they being about the 



thick, filled with pulp inside. — An unarmed tree, with obtuse same size and shape. In Egypt the seeds of both this and the pre- 



branches, bipinnate leaves, with 4-7 pairs of pinnae, the lower ceding are used by women, strung in necklaces, and hung about 



pinna bearing 1 leaflet, tlie rest bearing 6-8 pairs of leaflets. their children by way of amulet, to guard them from sorcery. 

 Flowers white, disposed in racemes. 

 1 G. Canade'nsis (Lam. 1, c. Michx. fl. bor. amer. 2. p« 241. 



Gui- 



t. 51.). Tj . H. Native of Canada, in woods, State of New 

 York, Tenessee, Ohio, and Kentucky. Reich, mag, t. 40. 

 landiiia dioica, Lin. spec. 546. Hyperanthera dioica, Vahl. 

 symb. 1. p. 31. Duham. arb. 1. t. 103. Bark of branches of 

 a bluish ash-colour. Petals white. 



Canadian Gymnocladus. Clt. 1748. Tree 30 to 40 feet. 



Cult, A fine deciduous tree, with large, bipinnate leaves. It 

 will grow in any common soil, and is increased by slips from 

 the roots, which should be planted in spring, with their ends 

 upwards. 



CCXLVL ANO^ MA {avofiog, anomos, without law, irregular ; 

 the corolla as well as the legume are irregvilar). Lour. coch. 

 p. 279. Juss. in ann. mus. 9. p. 327. D. C. prod. 2, p. 480. 



Lin. syst. Dccdndria, Monogynia. Calyx of 5, nearly 

 equal sepals, which are concrete at the base. Petals 5, oblong, 

 nearly equal. Stamens 10, ascending, the 5 alternate ones ste- 

 rile. Legume oblong, thick, 1-celled, 2-valved, many-seeded. 



They are often thrown on shore on the coast of Scotland and Ire- 

 land, and are called by the inhabitants of the former Molucca 

 beans. The bark and seeds are bitter and tonic. 



Small Bonduc or Nicker-tree. Clt. 1700. Sh. 6 to 8 feet. 



3 G. ciLiA^TA (Berg. herb. Wicks, obs. fl. St. Barth. p. 411.) 

 branches clothed with rusty tomentum ; leaves pubescent, with 

 3-6 pairs of pinnae ; leaflets nearly orbicular, oblique at the 

 base, emarginate at the apex, pilose beneath at the base on the 

 middle nerve. T2 , S. Native of the island of St. Bartholomew. 

 Flowers in terminal, spicate racemes. Peduncles and pedicels 

 clothed with rusty tomentum. 



Ciliated Nicker-tree. Shrub. 



4 G. microphy'lla (D. C. cat. hort. monsp. 114.) leaves 

 smooth, with 3-4 pairs of opposite pinnae, each pinna bearing 

 6-8 pairs of oval obtuse leaflets. ^ . S. Native country, 

 flow^ers, and fruit unknow^n. Perhaps this species is referrible 

 to the figure in Rumph, amb. 5. t. 49. f. 2. 



Small-leaved Nicker-tree. Shrub. 



5 G. gla'bra (Mill. diet. no. 3.) leaves glabrous, with 4 pairs 



A orv^oii * -.1. •. r- ■ 1 J- . of alternate pmnae, pmna bearmcr oval, acute, opi)osite leaflets. 

 A small tree, with opposite, bipinnate leaves, according to j ^ xt .• i fr* i 

 !. 1 . , J-^ ' ,^ , . . ^ b . o. Native about Lamneachv. 



Loureiro, but perhaps they are alternate and tripinnate, some- 

 what ovate, tomentose leaflets^ and panicles of white flowers. 



1 A, Cochinchine'nsis (Lour. 1. c). T^ . G. Native of Co- 

 chin-china, in woods. Hyperanthera Cochinchinensis, Willd. 



spec. 2. p. 537. Hypelate Cochinchinensis, Smith, in Rees* cycl. 

 vol. 19. 



Cochin-china Anoma. Tree. 



Cult. See CcEsalinnia for culture and propagation, p. 432. 



CCXLVII. GUILANDrNA (in honour of Melchior Gui- 

 landinus, or Wieland, of Prussia, a great traveller, he succeeded 

 Anquillara at Padua in 1561, and Tallopius in 1564 ; he died 

 in 1589. His nnhlin^f;^»^e ovo De Stirpibus, 1558, and De 



His publications are, 

 i^apyro,in 1572). 

 fruct. 2. t. 148. 



Lin. gen. no. 517. Juss. gen. 350 



Lam. ill. t. 3S&. 



lionduc, Plum. gen. 25. 

 Lin. 



Gaertn. 



D. C. prod. 2. p. 480 



SYST. 



Guilandina species of Lin. 



of 



5 



Deccmdria, Monogynia, Calyx ,_ 

 equal sepals, joined together into a short tube at the base, 

 ^a s 5, sessile, nearly equal, 

 villous at the base. Stvle short. 



nearly 



Pe- 



Tj . S. Native about Campeachy. 



Glabrous Nicker-tree. Tree. 



6 G. ? ge'mina (Lour. coch. 265.) leaves glabrous, simply 

 pinnate ; legumes 2 from the same flower. ^ . S. Native of 

 Cochin-china, in woods. Leaves abruptly pinnate. Flowers 

 yellow, disposed in terminal, branched racemes. 



7'?i;m-fruited Nicker-tree. Shrub 6 to 10 feet. 



Cult. See Ctesalpinia^ p. 432. for culture and propagation. 

 The species require a considerable degree of heat to make them 

 thrive. 



CCXLVIIL COULTERIA (in honour of Thomas Coulter, 

 M. D. author of a monograph on the natural order Dipsacece). 

 H. B. et Kunth, nov. gen. amer. 6. p. 328. D. C. prod. 2. p. 

 480. — Adenocalyx, Bertero, ined. 

 p. 283. Schult. syst. 978. 



Lin. syst. Decdndria, Monoa'i 



Stamens 10, with the filaments 



Tara, Mol. chil. ed. 2. gall. 



^^ Calyx turbinate at the 



base, 5-cleft, the 4 upper lobes nearly equal, the lower one is 



¥ 



.„_ Legume ovate, compressed, 



rather ventricose, echinated with prickles on the outside, 2- 



valved, 1-2-seeded. 



Duminous. 



larger and pectinately toothed, with glands. 



P 



e 



tals 



5 



the 



Seeds bony, shining, nearly globose, exal- 



both 

 Fl 



Trees and shrubs, furnished with hooked prickles 



on the stems and petioles. 



Leaves abruptly bipinnate. 



Bracteas elon- 



owers yellow, disposed in racemose spikes. 



* tr. Bo'nduc (Lin. spec. 545.) leaves pubescent, velvety ; 

 leaflets ovate - .. / 



upper one the largest. Stamens 10, with the filaments free and 

 somewhat bearded at the base, and with a nectariferous gland on 

 the upper side of the ovary. Style short. Stigma glandularly 

 ciliated. Legume compressed, flat, spongy, hardly dehiscent 

 but usually divided transversely into cells inside, 4-6-seeded. 

 Embryo straight. — Shrubs or trees, native of South America, 



with spines in the axils of the leaves 



nate. Flowers yellow, disposed in racemes. 



Leaves abruptly bipin^ 



Pedicels articu- 



« -» prickles solitary ; seeds yellow. T? . -- 



^ the East Indies, Africa, Arabia, and South America, on the 

 jea-shore. Rumph. amb. 5. t. 48. G. Bonduc, var. a, mSjus, 

 Y* ^' prod. 2. p. 480. Flowers yellow. Seeds large, yellowish. 

 l.eavPQ«.:.u ^ ..V . . ^^^j^^ bearing as many pairs of 



S. Native lated, under the flower. 



f^eaves with 7 pairs of pinn^ 

 ^^aHets. Bondaq, a necklace i 



1 C. MOLLIS (H. B. et Kunth, nov. gen. amer. 6. p. 328. in a 

 note,) leaves, calyxes, and fruit clothed with velvety pubes- 



leaflets oval-oblong, retuse ; petioles unarmed; legumes 

 obtuse, h . S. Native of St. Martha. 



cence 



stipitate 



Adenocalyx 



2' -- "^^"-^"^'^ in Arabic ; use of seeds. 



fondue or Nicker-tree. Clt. 1040. Shrub 6 to 10 feet. 



* G. Bonduce'lla (Lin. spec. 545.) leaves pubescent ; leaflets 

 ^/^'^"^^lo"g ; prickles twin ; seeds grey. »2 . S. Native of 

 "^e Last Indies, Africa, and South America. Schrank, hort. 



"^on- t. 68. Glycyrhiza aculeata, Forsk. desc. 135 

 »n^b. t. 49. f. 1 . 



Rumph, 

 This plant differs from the last in haying 



remotus, Bert. ined. Caesalpinia mollis, Spreng. syst. append. 169. 



So/c Coulteria. Shrub 6 to 7 feet. 



2 C HoRRiDA (H. B. et Kunth, nov. gen. amer. 6. p. 330. 

 t. 568.) leaflets glabrous, oblong; petioles prickly; calyxes 

 hairy ; legumes glabrous, sessile, obliquely oblong. 

 Native of the province of Popayan, near Carthagena. 



T/orWd Coulteria. Clt. 1824. Shrub 6 to 8 feet. 



b. S. 



jtiuch smaller leaves set closer together, and below each pair o£ S C. tinctoria (H. B. et Kunth, nov. gen. amer. 6. p. SSO.) 

 '^aflets are two short, stiff, crooked spines, which are opposite, t.569.) leaflets glabrous, oval, emarginate ; petioles armed, some- 

 »>ot solitary, as in the last species The seeds of this plant are times somewhat puberulous ; calyxes smoothish ; legumes gla- 



