358 DECANDRIA MONOGYNIA. Caesalpinia, 
much the habit of Bonduccella. 1t flowers during the wet 
season. The seeds ripen in March and April- fas 
Stem and branches climbing, woody, armed with many : 
small, sharp, recurved prickles. Leaves alternate, abrupt- 
ly-bipinnate, oblong, from eight to nine inches long, and 
about four broad. Pinne opposite, seven, eight, or nine 
pairs. Leaflets opposite, from six to ten pair, linear-ob- 
long, smooth, entire, about one-third of an inch long, 
and one-fifth broad. Petioles common, are frequently 
armed with some, small, scattered prickles, and there 
is generally a pair below each pair of pinnz. Stipules 
subulate. Racemes rather above the axils, simple, some- 
what shorter than the leaves. Pedicels diverging, about 
an inch and a half long. Flowers many, pretty large, yel- 
low. Petals orbicular, the lower end smallest, and striated 
with red. Filaments woolly, alternately shorter. Legume 
smooth, oblong, obliquely-jointed, very protuberant at 
the seeds; about two and a half inches Jong, and one 
broad. Seeds two or three, oval, smooth, shining, hard, 
about the size of a large pea. 
From the seeds, an oil is expressed, in some part of the 
country, whichis used to burn in lamps. 
4. C. cucullata. R. 
Scandent, armed. Leaves bipinnate ; pinne from four 
to six pair ; leaflets from four to five pair, ovate, polished. 
Panicles terminal, and axillary, thin. Upper petal two — 
lobed and vaulted. Legume thin, smooth, membrane — 
margined on the back, one or two-seeded. 
A native of the Delta of the Ganges where it was found 
by Dr. William Carey, and by him introduced into the 
Botanic garden at Calcutta where it blossoms in Febru 
ary and March. 
Trunk ligneous, stout, scandent, which together with 
the scandent branches are armed with numerous, stto0S, 
very sharp, dark-coloured, recurved prickles, which by a 
