_Caesalpinia, DECANDRIA MONOGYNIA. 359 
age acquire alarge conic base. Bark smooth, and polish- 
ed in the young shoots. Leaves bipinnate, from one to two 
feet long. Pinne opposite, from three or four to six or 
seven pair. Leaflets generally four or five pair, opposite, 
ovate, entire, taper-pointed, firm, and polished on both 
sides, from one to three inches long. Petioles common 
and partial, round, smooth, and armed with recurved 
prickles. Stipules minute, falling long before the leaves 
are full grown. Panicles axillary, and terminal, composed 
of a few simple, ascending, rigid racemes. Bractes small 
caducous. Flowers numerous, solitary, drooping, green- 
ish yellow. Calyx as in the genus, yellow, and smooth, size. 
of the corol. Color greenish, the upper petals two-lobed, 
the lobes large, and at all periods folded down like an arch, 
over the base, and the insertion of the stamina and pistil ; 
lateral pairs nearly round, at first greenish, becoming — 
yellow by exposure to the air and light, Filaments scarce- _ 
ly downy at the base, much longer than the corol. 
Germ short-pedicelled. Stigma obliquely funnel-shaped, 
Legume linear-oblong, thin, pointed and often twisted 
hear the apex, smooth and unarmed, a thin membranace- 
0s, scariose wing runs along the whole length of the 
back, Seeds one or two, smooth, light brown. 
5. C. Simora. Buch. 
_*Scandent, armed, the tender parts coloured and glan- ’ 
dular. Leaves bipinnate; pinne from twelve to twenty- 
four pair; ; leaflets from eight to sixteen pair. Stipules 
€nsiform. Racemes simple, leaf-opposed and terminal. 
Legume dolabriform, turgid, two-seeded, 
A native of Mysore, from thence Dr. Buchanan sent 
Seeds to the Botanic garden at Calcutta where the plants | 
s'ow luxuriantly, and blossom during the cold season; the 
_ Seeds ripen four or five months afterwards, Stem and lar- 
ser branches stout, and ligneous, climbing over trees t a 
considerable extent, Bark brown, and armed se it 
