Parkinsonia.] LEGUMINOS& (Harv.) 269 
Sub Order II. Casaprinins. 
LXVIIL PARKINSONIA, Linn. 
Calyx coloured, with a short, urceolate tube and 5-parted, ab teaeal 
deciduous limb. Petals 5, in the throat of the calyx, ovate, flat ; the 
upper one with a long claw. Stamens 10, free, declined ; filaments vil- 
lous at base. Ovary sessile, many-ovuled ; style subulate, ascending ; 
stigma simple. Legume very long, acuminate at each end, compressed 
between seeds, 2-valved, many-seeded. Endl. Gen, 677 5+ DC.P. 2, 485. 
Tropical and subtropical shrubs, armed with simple or 3-forked spines. Leaves 
pinnate, multijugate ; leaflets small. Flowers racemose, yellow. ame in honour 
of John Parkinson, a London apothecary and botanist of ihe seventeenth century. 
P. africana (Sond. Linn. 23, p. 38); flexuous, divaricately branched, 
glabrous and glaucous, spiniferous ; leaves 3 or more from the axils of 
horizontal spines; common petiole semiterete, wingless, channelled, 
taper-pointed ; leaflets opposite, very minute, oblong, acute ; racemes 
axillary and terminal, laxly 6—10-flowered; pedicels bracteate at base ; 
calyx puberulous ; legumes linear-lanceolate, narrowed at base and apex, 
finely striate, 8-seeded, seeds oblong, obtuse, shining. Zey./ 557. 
oe eh pag pevokkesl, Bosjesmansland, B. § Z./ Namaqualand, Wyley/ (Hevb. 
A tall hak, called “Wilde Limoenhout” by the colonists. Branches pale yellow- 
ish, spreading subhorizontally, flexuous, tapering, the younger minutely downy. 
Leaves juncoid, the petiole 4-5 inches long ; leaflets i ine 8-10 distant pairs, Reril veds line 
long, very narrow. Racemes 2-3 inches lon ; the peduncle rigi 
cels 4-6 lines long. Calyx coloured, with a p Bessie downy | tube and oblong, ah tad 
limb. Filaments hairy at base. Petals yellow. Legumes 4~5 inches long, 45 lines 
wide, contracted and compressed between the seeds. 
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Petals 5, in the throat of the calyx, sessil e, I nearly equal. | 
free ; filaments villous at the base, — Owaty ee, Seni cried; 
style ‘short ; stigma simple. Legume ovate, ventricose, compressed, 2- 
valved, 1~2-seeded, covered with straight prickles. Endl. Gen. No. 6763. 
DC. Prod. 2, 480. Lam. Ill. t. 336. 
Tropical and subtropical trees and shrubs ; the stem and petioles armed with 
hooked prickles. Leaves abruptly bi ed. Flowers spicato-racemose. Bracts 
long. Name in honour of Melchior Guilandinus (of Wieland), a celebrated travel- 
ler ; died in 1589. 
i = Bondue (Ait. Hort. Kew. 3, p. 32) ; leaves pubescent or villous — 
and velvetty ; leaflets ovate ; spines subsolitary; ; seeds yllonee DC. 
Prod. 2 p. 480. B. Mey. Coma. p. 158. | 
Has. Mouths of the 01 : 
_ Anative of Indiaand Arabia. Iict noon South A irican speckmneii Fis yl . 2 
-LXX. MELANOSTICTA, DC. = 
Calyx deeply 5-parted, segments deciduous, the lowest 1 Ar; e 
5, in the throat of the calyx; 4 lower obovate-oblong, sube 
one shorter and broader, with inflexed edges. Stamens 
ing, equalling the petals ; anthers short. oe se 
