302 L. LEGUMiNOSiE. (J. G. Baker.) ICalliandra. 



Pod ^ ft. by 2 in., glabrous, 6-8-seeded, rather turgid, the sutures neither lobed nor 

 thickened. 



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130. CAXiXiIANBZlA, Bentli. 



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Shrubs or trees. Leaves bipinnatej witli small or larp:e leaflets. Flotcers in 

 globose heads, polygamous, 6-merous. Calyx campanulate, toothed. Corolla 

 funnel-shaped, deeply 5-cleft. Stamem indefinite, monadelphous at the base, 

 filaments nliform much exserted ; anthers minute, not gland-crested. Ovary 

 stalked, many-ovuled ; style filiform, stigma minute capitate. Pod strap- 

 shaped, slightly falcate, flat, rigidly coriaceous, the valves dehiscing with 

 elasticity, bordered by much-thickened sutures, continuous within, naiTOwed 

 gradually to a short stalk.— Distrib. Species 80, all the rest Tropical American. 



1. C. Griffitbii, Benth. in Trans. Linn. Soc. xxx. 5375 opines minute, 

 l)ract3 linear-lanceolate. 



Khasia Mts., Griffith. ^ 



Branches slender, terete, glabrous. General and partial petioles very short, gland- 

 less. Leaves as in C umbrosa ; upper pair of leaflets connivent, oblong-lanceolate, 

 oblique, acuminate, 2-3 in. long, rigidly subcoriaceous, glabrous, strongly veined, lower 

 nearly sessile, J-^ in. Heads dense, on slender glabrous ascending peduncles 1-2 in. 

 long, from the axils of developed leaves. Calyx ^ in., funnel-shaped ; teeth deltoid. 

 Corolla funnel-shaped, glabrous, | in. ; teeth lanceolate. Pod unknown. 



2. C. umbrosa, Benth. in Gen. Plant, i. 597; spines conspicuous, bracte 

 .minute deltoid. Inga umbrosa, Wall PL Asiat. Bar. t. 124; Cat. 52/^. 



Albizzia umbrosa, Benth. in Hook. L<md» Joum, Bot. iii. 86. ' 



SiLHBT, Khasia Mts., Chittagong, and Penang. 



A tree, with slender glabrous branchlets, sometimes furnished with small erecto- 

 patent stipular spines. Leaves short ; pinnge 2, with a pair of large sessile oblique 

 oblong acute rigidly subcoriaceous leaflets at the apex, and an odd much smaller on& 

 below on the outer side, all with a gland on the rachis at the base. Flowers sessue» 

 in small dense globose heads on short as'cending peduncles. Corolla ^ in., yello^» 

 inodorous. Pod 6-9 in. by |-1 in. broad, smooth, finely veined, the valves witn 

 elevated rounded thick raised edges. 



131. PZTRZ:COZ.OBXVIII, Mart. 



Erect trees. Leaves bipinnate. Flowers in globose heads, usually herma- 

 phrodite and pentamerous. Calyx campanulate or funnel-shaped, sli^rt y 

 toothed. Corolla funnel-shaped, the petals united below the middle. Stmeti 

 monadelphous, much exserted ; anthers not gland-crested. Ovary sessile o 

 stalked, many-ovuled ; style filiform, stigma minute capitate. Pod strap* 

 shaped, falcate or circinate, usually dehiscent and much twisted in a ^^K^^' 

 the sutures not thickened. — Distrib. Species about 100, cosmopolitan lO 

 Tropics, mostly American, only one African. 



Series I. Un^uiscati. Stipules spinose. 



^ 1. P. didce, Bmth. in Hook. Lond. Jotirn. 1844, 199 ; pinn?e ^^^}^f^^ 



2," heads in long narrow terminal panicles, flowers sessile, pod conace - 



Bedd. Fl. Sylv. t. 188. Mimosa dulcis, Roxh. Cor. PI t. 99 ; Hort- ^^ff'Jo I 



Fl. Ind. ii. 556. Inga dulcis, Willd. ; DC Prodr. ii. 436 j Wall Cat ^-^^\ 



W.^A. Prodr. 268 ; Wight Lc. t. 198. - ' 



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