356 DECANDRIA MONOGYNIA., Caesalpinia, 
Cesalpinia elata. Willd. 2. p. 532, 
A native of Coromandel, where it blossoms — the 
dry season. : 
Trunk erect, though rarely straight, often as thick asa 
man’s body. Bark pretty smooth, ash-coloured. Branches 
numerous, spreading much, the general height of full 
grown trees from twenty to thirty feet. Leaves alternate, 
bipinnate, about six inches long. Pinne from six to 
seven pair, opposite. Leaflets from ten to twenty pait, 
sessile, opposite, linear, smooth; about four lines long, 
and one in breadth. Petioles common, grooved on the 
upper side, smooth, and without glands, Stipules mi- 
nute, subulate. Racemes terminal, corymbiform, simple, 
few-flowered. Flowers large, very gaudy, inodorous, 
yellow. Bractes small, one-flowered, caducous. Calyx 
divided to its fleshy base, into five, equal, lanceolate 
segments, which are villous on the inside. Petals five, 
inserted on the fleshy base of the calyx, of which the up- 
per one is smaller, and deeper coloured, all nearly 
round, and much curled round the edge. Filaments ten, 
equal, ascending, afterwards recurved, twice the length 
of the petals, thick and villous at the base, inserted 0B 
the calyx, within the petals. Anthers incumbent. Germ 
sessile, linear, villous, one-celled, with from fifteen te 
twenty ovula attached to the upper suture. Style as long 
as the filaments, for some time after the flower expands 
modestly recurved from the filaments, which have thed 
a different direction, afterwards ascending, when the fila 
ments become declinate, Stigma small, turbinate, 
ge _ CAESALPINIA. Schreb. gen. n. 703. 
Calyx, base permanent ; border five-parted, and deci- 
dnous. Corol irregular, five-petalled, the upper on 
smaller, Filaments dat Anthers all the. ten See 
_, and open on their sides, _ i mt ipa gS 
