Caesalpinia. DECANDRIA MONOGYNIA. 369 
Molina racemosa. Lamarck. Encyclop. 4. 227. and Ca- 
cies: Diss. 9. t. 263. 
Sida-pou. Rheed. Mal. 6. t. 59. 
Teling. Vedal-tshittu. 
- Beng. Madhuva-luta, or Madhubuluta, also Mal tee. 
Found in various parts of India. It flowers during the 
rainy and cold season. The blossoms are uncommonly 
beautiful, and exceedingly fragrant. 
2. G. obtusifolia. R. 
Leaves oblong, obtuse. All the petals round, the low- © 
er two expanded, the upper three reflex. 
A native of China, and from thence brought to the Bo. 
tanic garden at Calcutta, prior to 1793. Like racemosa, 
itis a large, scandent, somewhat twining shrub; running 
over trees of considerable size. Flowering time the month 
of March. Its blossoms are smaller, less beautiful, and 
hot so fragrant, as those of G. racemosa. 
Flowers of five petals, the lower two, more ex panded, the 
upper three completely reflexed, allelegantly fringed round 
the margins, the uppermost one has a rosy tinge round a 
yellowish base, where two curved hornlets project in to- 
ward the stamina, the other four are white. Filaments un- 
equal, ascending in a beautiful curve ; the lower one much 
larger, and longer. Germ superior, three-lobed, each lobe 
crowned with one larger, and two smaller,semilunar,hairy 
processes, which in the fertile lobes become wings ; each 
lobe contains a single seed attached to the inner and 
upper angle of the cell. Style ascending, nearly as 
long as the long filament. Stigma simple, incurved, 
Samara, rarely more than one of the three come to ma- 
turity, globose, villous, of a soft chaffy texture, three- 
Winged ; wings lanceolate, scariose, one of them larger, 
between it and the base is a small scar, the mark of the 
attachment of the style. Seed single, round. Integument 
Single, tender, brown, attached to the samara under the’ 
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