Caesalpinia. DECANDRIA MONOGYNIA. 367 | 
ovate, two-lobed. Germ obliquely ovate. Style the length 
of the stamina. Stigma simple. Legume oblong, thin, with 
a broad membranaceous margin along the upper edge, - 
this wing is about one-third the breadth of the whole 
and united to the seed-bearing body of the legume by a 
suture which is somewhat elevated like the nerve of a 
leaf. Seeds from one to three or four, small, ovate, com- 
pressed, coloured and smooth. 
14. C. inermis, R. 
Unarmed. Leaves bipinnate; pinne as faras ten pair ; 
leaflets as far as twenty. Panicles terminal, ferruginous. 
Peials base of the filaments, and germ very woolly. 
A native of the Moluccas. The legume not seen. 
15. C. lacerans. R. ee 
Shrubby, scandent, dreadfully armed. Leaves bipin- 
nate. Calyces coloured like the corol. Legumes unarm- 
ed, winged, one-seeded. 
Teling. Walekadooda, A large climbing species, most 
completely armed. Itis common in wild, woody, uncul- 
tivated places, and flowers during the first part of the wet 
Season. 
Stem and longer branches climbing, woody, covered 
with scabrous, ash-coloured bark ; the smaller branches 
less so, and armed with innumerable, large, strong, sharp, 
recurved prickles ; the tender shoots purple. Leaves alter-— 
hate, abruptly bipinnate, from five to six inches long 
and three broad. Pinne opposite, from four to eight pair. 
Leaflets opposite, from four to eight pair, oval, entire, 
‘Smooth, half aninch long and a quarter of an inch broad. 
P etioles common, smooth, armed with a pair of recurved 
Prickles below each pair of pinnae, and a single erect ; 
ne opposite to them on the upper side. Racemes’ axil- — 
» and only from the extreme leaves, which gives 
‘Masa ofa large terminal leafly panicle, . cowers 
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