CASSIACEAE 667 
Nat. of I.—All year.—Extensively grown as an ornamental for its con- 
tinuous flowering habit. 'The pods are elastieally dehiscent. 
19. CAESALPINIA L. Erect unarmed or slightly armed shrubs or trees. 
Leaflets usually few and relatively large: blades broad. Sepals slightly 
shorter than the petals. Blades of the petals 
coriaceous. Seed flattened.—A bout spe- 
cies of tropical and subtropical regions. 
1. C. e (Griseb.) C. Wright. Shrub 
2 m. tall or less: leaflets glabrous, mostly 
6-12 on EUN pinna; blades elliptie to ob- 
o ; 2 . lo als 8—10 
long: filaments 8-11 mm. long: pod 
elliptie, 2-3.5 an lon ee lower 
Florida Keys.—(W. I.)—Sum 
Ticanto Nuga (L.) Medic. A tough woody vine with greatly eo stems 
and a bipinnate leaves with coriaceous leaflets, racemes or pan icles of 
bright -yellow flowers, and flat, oblique, indehiscent ods, is a native “of the 
East Indies, "eulivated and locally naturalized in S F 
13. GUILANDINA L. Reclining or spreading prickly shrubs. Leaflets 
relatively few or numerous and large: blades broad. Sepals as long as the 
petals or nearly so. Blades of the narrow petals mainly spatulate. Pod nearly 
as wide as long, turgid. Seed turgid—About 12 species, mostly West Indian. 
—Nickers. HOLD-BACKS. WAIT-A-BIT VINES.— The pods are rather tardily de- 
hiscent. 
Leaves with foliaceous stipules: seed gray or lead- colored. 1. G. Crista. 
Leaves without stipules: seed yellow. 
Leaflet-blades neither rounded nor retuse: corolla 2.5 cm. wide 
or : 2. G. Bonduc. 
Leafiet-blades rounded or retuse: corolla 1.5 cm. wide or less. 3. G. ovalifolia. 
1. G. Crista (L.) Small. Straggling or spreading shrub: leaflets numerous; 
b ndn n elliptie- -ovate, or nearly elliptic, 1.5-3.5 em. long, mucronate: 
racem r panicles 1-4 dm. sepal 
9-11 m ong, pues rd „petals dull- 
yellow, the narrower ones 10—1 long, 
truncate and 3-toothed “the uds nes oval 
Or di iar id 5-7 em. long.—(GRAY- 
KER.)—Low hammocks, and coastal sand- 
dunes, S pen "Fla, and the K sd: 
—The seeds are sometimes nuin green, 
2. G. Bonduc L. Plant similar to G. Cri ag 
YELLOW- d uA — Coastal sand-dunes and 
shore-hammocks, S pen. Fla. and the Ke eys. 
—(W. I.) 
3. G. ovalifolia (Urban) Britton. Straggling shrub with curved or hooked 
prickles; leaflets numerous, the blades oval or suborbicular, varying to ovate or 
