Cmsalpinia.] l. legumixos^. ■" (J, G. Baker.) 255 



^. O. Bonduc, Hoxb. Hort. Beng. 32 ; Fl. Ind. ii. 3G2 ; leaves wiLuuut 

 Etipules, leaflets larger, tracts ascending-. Guilandina Bonduc, Linn. ; BC. 

 Prodr . n. iSO ; Wall. Cat. 5806; W. 8f A. Prodr. 2S0, ex parte. ' 

 Mill. Did. No. 3. ^ 



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G. glabra^ 



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Easteen and Western Peninsulas. Ceylon.— Distrib. Malay isles, Polynesia, 

 West Indies. J ' J > 



Ve^ near C. Bondiicella, from which it differs by its more robnst habit, less 

 aojniy branches, larger leaflets (often 2-3 in. long), the absence of the reduced sti- 

 pular pmnas, by its smaller not squarrose bracts, and more tropical dispersion. 



fi n j^^"^' ^' ^^<5aBSalpinia. Pod dry, naked on the valves, indehiscent or 

 anally dehiscing, the sutures thin except in'^G Bepiaria. Petals broad. 



' "• C. Nug-a, Ait. Hort. Keio, iii. 32 ; glabrous, pinnae 4-6, leaflets 4-6 

 ™?e ovate, stamens little exserted, pod woody broad-oblong 1-seeded. Gui- 

 tadma Nuga, Linn. Sp. PI. 646. 0. paniculata, Roxb. Hort. Bmg. 32 ; Fl. 

 iM ij. 364; DC. Prodr. ii. 481; W. ^ A. Prodr. 281; Wight Ic. i. SQ; 

 j^^lz.^ ^ Gibs. Bomb. Fl. 79. 0. sumatrana, Wall. Cat. 5831 B, C, nm Roxb. 

 '^ wjuga, Wall. Cat. 5833, non Sw. 0. scandens, Koemg) DC. Prodr. ii. 482 ; 

 '^all Cat. 6829. 



CmmooxG, SiLHET, Eastern and Westken Peninsulas, and Ceylon.— Di.strib. 

 ^aiay isles, Philippines, China, N. Australia, Polynesia. 



let^A-^'v^ ^l<^"der, very flexuose. Prickles copious, dark-ccloured, hooked. Leaf- 

 s distinctly petioluled, l|-2 in. long, obtuse, glossy. Racemes axillary and terminal, 

 -jPi^^'^'j^P^'jicled, with spreading branches; pedicels as long as the calyx. Calyx 

 IsM^^l'y^'^V- Petals scarcely exserted. Filainents densely woolly in the lower 

 ti^d ^ ^^' ^'*"^' ^^°^<^' oblong, beaked, hard, glabrous, indehiscent, rather 



u/;^' Sappan, Linn.; BC. Prodr. ii. 482; subglabrous, pinnse 20-24, 

 nKi- , ^ moderately small oblono- very oblique, stamens little exserted, pod 

 "OUque oblong woody 3-4-seeded. Roxb. Cor. PI. i. 17, t. 16 ; Hort. Beng. 32 ; 

 Annln "• ^^^ ' ^^^^- ^"t. 6838 ; W. ^- A. Prodr. 281 ; Bedd. Fl. Sylv. 90 ; 

 , •«'• (^en. t. xiii. fig. 1. Bianc^a Sappan, Todaro Hort. Bot. Panorm. 3. 



^STERN and Western Peninsulas and Pfxju.— Disteib. Malay isles. 

 sessii/'"'*! ^'■^®- P'-ickles small and few. J^aArachis ^^-1 ft. long ; leaflets close, 

 long !' ^,^'^'=,°riaceous, ^-f in. long, attached at "the lowest corner. Panicles often as 

 lanlrf ,^® 'eaves, the young branches slightly ferrugineo-pubescent ; bracts large, 

 woont ■ V'^'^'^«*us ; pedicels A-4 in. Calyx | in., glabrous. FUame>its densely 

 poliZ'," *^? '^^e"" half. Ovary ^ey-velvety. Pod 3-4 in. by IJ in., subcompressed, 



' 'Indehiscent, witb a bard recurved beak at tbe upper angle. 



20-L ^' Pwlcherrima, Sioartz, Obs. 166 ; glabrous, pinnfe_ 12-18 leaflets 

 Wuf p^i^ «Wique-oblong, stamens mucb exserted, pod thin hgulate flat gla- 

 Pl In^-'T'^^'^- Poinciana pulcherrima, Linn. ; Bot. Mag t^995 ; Roxb. 

 j^fn. 365 ; BC P-odr. ii. 484 ; Wall. Cat. 6813 ; W. ^ A. P'odr. 282.- 

 '^^ J^ort. Mai, vi. t. 1. 



couSr""f ^^y cultivated through India and elsewhere in the tropics ; tbe native 

 "p not clearly known 

 ^fjnib or small tree. PricHcs few and scattered on the branches. Leaflets senile, 



'••*•' meml 



WhZTT'"'^' H in. long, not so oblique as in the last, very obtuse Iiaee7nes 

 '^^pSTJ^a^I ^^^"^ Pe^iioels 3-4 in. long. Calyx W in., glabrous. Petals round, 

 Wies S''^-y^"«^. with a very distinct claw, the largest and most showj- of all the 

 2-3 in i/'^'f ''^^ bright red, 3-4 times the length of the coroUa. Pod nearly straight. 

 ' ^ODg, the narrowest and thinnest of that of any of. the species. 



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