260 L. LEGUMiNOS^. (J. G. Baker.) [Poinciana^ 



100. FOZNCZANA, Linn. 



Erect unarmed trees. Z^flri;^^ just those of Ca^salpinia, Flowers in corjm- 

 hose racemes. Cah/x deeply cleft, with the disk a little ahove the base, the 

 segments valvate, oblanceolate, subequal. Petals spreading, subequal, orbicular, 

 with a claw, the blade crispato-fimDriate. Stamens 10, free, declinate, much 

 exserted ; anthers oblong, versatile. Ovm-y subsessile, many-ovuled ; style very 

 long, filiform, stigma minute capitate. Pod flat, thin, dehiscent, ligulate, con- 

 tinuous within, the sutures neither thickened nor winged. — Distkib. Species 

 2-3, Trop. African and Asiatic. 



1. P. elata. Zmn.; DC. Prodr. ii. 484; Roxh. Fl Ind, ii. 355; Wall 

 Cat. 5812; W. ^ A. Proclr. 282; £edd. Fl. Sylv. t. 178; Osesalpinia elata, 

 Sivartz Obs. 166. 



Truly wild in the Western .Peninsula, planted elsewhere. — Distrib. Arabia, W. 

 Trop. Africa. 



An erect tree, 20-30 ft. high. Leaves |-| ft. long ; pinnae 10-16 ; leaflets 30-40, 

 membranous, caducous, close, sessile, obtuse, ligulate. Flowers in corymbose 

 racemes; pedicels and obovoid buds finely grey-downy. Calyx very coriaceouj.. 

 ^-1 in. long. Petals scarcely exserted, an inch broad, shortly clawed. Fllamen s 

 bright red, 3-4 times the length of the cilyx, downy near the iDase. Pod 6-8 in. long 

 by above an inch, 4-8-seeded. — The Mascarene P. regia, Bojer, with petals muc 

 exceeding the calyx^is frequently planted in India. 



101. PASKINSONZA, Linn. 



Trees. Leaves -with 2-6 pinnae from a very short rachis. Floicers yellow, m 

 short racemes. Calyx deeply cleft, with a subbasal disk, the divisions suhva - 

 vate, lanceolate, subequal. Petals exserted, broad, the upper with a long clavr. 

 Stamem 10, included, villose ; anthers versatile. Ovary short-stalked, ^^^T 

 ovuled ; style iiUform, stigma terminal. Pod turgid, dry, moniliform, nna J 

 dehiscing. — Dt-sxKiB. Species 3, of which 2 are American, the other Cape. 



1. P. aculeata, imn.; UC. Prodr. ii. 486; Roxh. Hort. JBeng^^^i 

 ^' A. Pi'odr. 284; Bedd. FL Sylv. 91 ; Anal Gen. t. 13, fig. 2. 



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Universally cultivated and often naturalised. A native of Tropical America. 



A glabrous bush or low tree, armed with sharp woody spines, which represent 

 primary rachis of a bipinnate leaf and have 2-6 pinnae congested in their ^*^^^®', ^. 

 i-1 ft. long, the rachis much flattened, so that when the very minute obtuse oblanc^^ 



w. 



tender, yellow, |-i in. Pod 3-4 in. long. 



102. WAGATSA, Dalz. 



A climbing shrub. Leaved abruptly bipinnate. Floicers in ^^^^^^?,^^ 

 panicled spikes. Calyx cleft about half way down into 6 obtuse teeth, *^^%^ ^j^. 

 the longest and wrapt over the others, the disk high up in the tube. P^ ly 

 lanceolate, obtuse, subequal, little exserted. Stamens 10, included, ° . j^ 

 straight, filaments naked ; anthers oblong. Ovai'y sessile, niany-ovuled ? ^^ 

 slightly clubbed at the tip, stigma oblique. Pod ligiilate-oblonff, ^^^^jf^jap! 

 few-seeded, subtorulose, with thickened sutures, not winged. — ^^ 

 Endemic. ' 



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