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6. C. sepiaria, Roxh. Hort, Beng, 32 ; FL Lid, ii. 360 ; downy, pinsi 

 12-20, leaflets 16-24 small oblonof, stamens little exserted^ pod oblono;-lig'Ti]ate 

 svibturgid veined 4-8-seeded. Wall Cat, 5834, excl H. ; W. 8f A. Prodr. 282 ; 

 Wiffht Ic, t. 37 ; Dak. ^ Gibs. Bomb. FL 80. C. ferox, Hassk, PL Jav. Bar. 

 400. 0. japonica, Sieb. ^' Zucc. FL Jap. 9. 0. crista, Thunb. FLJap. 179, non 

 Linn. Eeicliardia decapetala, Roth \ DC. Prodr. ii. 484, Biancaea scandens, 

 Todaro Hort, Bot. Panorm. 4, t. 1. 



Himalayas to Ceylon and Ata, ascending to 4000 ft. in the North-West— Drs- 

 TRiB. Malay isles, China, Japan and introduced in Tropical America. 



Branches more or less densely coated with grey or broAvn pubescence. Prickles 

 small, copious, hooked, pale brown. Leaves^! ft. long; pinnae distinctly stalked; 

 leaflets membranous, very obtuse, |— 1 in. long, green and glabrous above, glaucous 

 and slightly pubescent beneath. Racemes simple, distinctly-peduncled, ^1 ft. long; 

 pedicels rigicUy erecto-patent, twice the length of the calyx. Calyx f-i- in., more or 

 less pubescent. Corolla \ in., bright yellow. Filaments densely woolly in the lower 

 half. Pod 3-0 in. by above 1 in., sublignose, glabrous, rather recurved, with the upper 

 isuture dilated into a narrow i>^m-like wing, subindehiscent. 



7. C. mimosoides, Lam. JIL t. 335, fig, 2; downy, pinnae 20-GO, leaflets 



20-40 oblong very small, stamens little exserted, pod recurved oblong very 

 turgid 2-seeded. DC Prodr. ii. 482 ; W. ^ A, Prodr. 281 ; Wiffht, le, t, 392; 

 Dalz. ^' Gibs, Bomb. FL 80. C. Simora, Ham, in Roxb. Hort. Beng, 32 ; Fl hid, 

 ii. 359. C. resupinata, Roxh. HoH. Beng. 32 ; FL Ind. ii. 362. 0. horrida, 



Wall Cat. 5836. 0. armata, Grah, in Wall Cat, 5840. Bianc^a mimosoides, 



Todaro Hort, Bot. Panoryn, 3. 



BiRMA at Chappedong, Wallich, Western Peninsula. Cf.ylon. „ 



Branches armed with copious irregular soiall prickles, passing down gradually 

 into aciculi, bristles and hairs. Leaves 1-1^ ft. long, much narrower than in the other 

 species ; leaflets sessile, membranous, sensitive, glabrous, ^| in. long. Racemes lax, 

 simple, 1-2 ft. long, the rachis densely prickly and like the rigidly erccto-patent 

 prickles very rough with hard raised points ; pe'dicels 2-3 times the length of the 

 calyx. Cah/x ^| in., more or less downy. Petals broad, bright yellow, scarcely ex 

 serted. Filame^its densely woolly in the lower half. Pod under 2 in. long, more 

 turgid than in the other species, half an inch thick, narrowed to the base, hard, sub 

 indehiscent, clothed with minute deciduous bristles, truncate at the end with a short 

 recurved beak, the sutures not at all thickened. 



SxTBGEX. 3. Cinclidocarpus (Z.&M.). Pof? rather fleshy, indehiscent, 

 naked on the faces, the sutures much thickened. Petals broad. 



8. C- digyna, i2oM. ; DC, Prodr, ii. 482; leaflets 16-20 membranoiw, 

 pedicels spreading 2-A times the length of the calyx. Wall, Cat, 5830; "-^ 

 A. Prodr, 281, 0. oleosperma, Roxb, Hort, Beng, 32; FL 7wrf. ii. 356. t^- 

 flavicans, Grah. in Wall Cat, 5825. 0. gracilis, Miq. Flor. Ind, Bat. i. 1^*^- 

 Pterolobium lacerans, Wall. Cat. 5841, F. & I. 



Eastern Himalayas, K\stern and Westkkx Peninsulas, and Cetiox.— 

 DiSTuiB. Malay isles. , * 



Branches glabrous or slightly downy ; prickles scattered, uniform. ^^^^ v^Zi^y^^. 

 long ; leaflets close, oblong, obtuse, sessile, \~h ' - ^ 



above, grey and glabrescent or obscurely downy beneath. " Racemes peduncled, ^'^^"^^ 

 equalling or exceeding the leaves ; pedicels ^1 in., slender, glabrous, npwftding no - 

 zontally or rather deHexed. Calyx glabrous, i-i in. Stamens little exserted, y^^ ^ 

 Pod obloTig, glabrous, 1^2 in. long, 2-4-seeded, turgid, torulose. 



9. C. cinclidocarpa, Miq. Flor. Ind. Bat. i. 110 j leaflets 28-86 rigij^y 

 subcoriaceous, racemes copiously panicled, pedicels erecto-patent as long at ^ 



in. long, dark green and glabrous 

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