Tas. 5181. 
CALLIANDRA H&MATOCEPHALA. 
Red-headed Calliandra. 
Nat. Ord. Lecumrnos®.—PoLyGaMIa POLYANDRIA. 
Gen. Char. (Vide supra, TaB. 4238.) 
CALLIANDRA hematocephala ; frutex, stipulis e basi lata acuminatis nunc sub- 
falcatis adpressis persistentibus, pinnis unijugis, foliolis 7-10-jugis oblongo- 
lanceolatis acuminatis basi ineequilateris subcordatis binerviis accrescentibus, 
pedunculis petiolo communi longioribus folio multo brevioribus, floribus 
dense sanguineis, calyce corolla: quartam partem longo, legumine subfalcato 
recto e basi angustissima sensim apicem versus dilatato glaberrimo nitidis- 
simo, valvis subcoriaceis, seminibus 4—5. Hassk. 
CALLTANDRA heematocephala. Hassk. in Retz. v. 1. pp. 216, 144. Walp. Ann. 
v. 4. p. 654. Hassk. Hort. Bogor. v. 1. p. 260. 
Inca hematoxylon. Hort. Calcutt. 
A most lovely shrub with us, but eventually forming a tree 
thirty to forty feet high, according to Hasskarl, the native country 
of which does not appear to be known. We have specimens in 
our herbarium from the Calcutta Botanical Garden, with the un- 
published name of Inga hematoxylon. Hasskarl received it at the 
Botanic Garden of Buitenzorg from the same source and under 
the same name; and has rightly referred it to the genus Cal- 
liandra. It has been sent to the Botanic Gardens of Kew, by 
Mr. Duncan, from the Mauritius Garden, in 1857, and pro- 
duced its lovely heads of flowers, for the first time in the stove, 
in February, 1860. Hasskarl speaks of its affinity with C. ma- 
crophylla’ and C. nitida, and still more with C. Surinamensis, 
Benth., which differs in the pubescent branches and petioles, 
and in the more obtuse and smaller leaflets. 
Descr. Shrub, with glabrous, terete, green branches, and 
‘copious petiolate unijugate eaves: each pinna is about five 
inches long and pari-pinnulate, with seven to ten pairs of oppo- 
site pinnul lowest and shortest an inch long, gradually 
ls to one and a half inch long, all of them more 
