9 12 FLORA OF JAM A I 



32. C.ESALPINIA L. 



lis or small trees. Leaves abruptly bipinnate (or with 

 :in odd pinna in C. <-<n-/ttrid). Racemes axillary or paniculate at 

 the ends of branches. Calyx ~>-cleft ; segments imbricate, nearly 

 L'tjual. Stamens generally villose or glandular at the base. 

 * > Miles few. Pod 2-valved or not splitting open, of various 

 forms, with blunt margins, not winged. Seeds without endo- 

 sperm. 



Species about 130, widely dispersed through the tropics. 



Pods prickly. 



Seeds yellow 1. C. Bonduc. 



Seeds grey 2. C. bonducella. 



Pods smooth. 



Leaves abruptly pinnate. 



Pinnae in 5-10 pairs ; leaflets in 8-12 pairs. 



[Climber, very prickly C. sepiaria.'] 



Erect shrub, scarcely prickly 3. C. pulcherrima. 



Pinnae in 2-3 pairs ; leaflets in 2 pairs ; 



small tree 4. C. vesicaria. 



Leaves with an odd pinna ; small tree 5. C. coriaria. 



1. Pods covered with long straight prickles. 



1. C. Bondue Eoxb. Hort. Seng. 32 (1814); stipules wanting ; 

 bracts erect at first in bud, later spreading, soon falling ; seeds 

 yellow. .Btt/j. in Hook.f. Fl. Brit. Ind. ii. 255; Bentli. in Fl. Bras. 

 xv. pt. 2, 66 ; Urb. Symb. Ant. ii. 272 & ii: 278. Lobus echiiiatus 

 fructu fla'vo &c. Sloane Cat. 144 & Hist. ii. 40. Frutex globu- 

 lorum Humph. Amboin. v. 89, t. 48. Guilandina Bonduc L. $>. 

 PI 381 (1753) (in part) & ed. 2, 545 (1762) (excl. syn. PluJc.) ; 

 Griseb. Fl. Br. W. Ind. 204 (excl. syn.). G. glabra Griseb. op. 

 cit. 205 (1860) (excl. locality Martinique) (non Mill). 



Nickar Tree, Yellow Nickar, Bonduc. 



"Among shrubs in the savannas everywhere," Sloane Herb. vi. 19! 

 Barliam & R. Millar in Herb. Sloane! in woods, Broughtonl Wright I 

 Great Valley, Manchester, Purdie ! Prior; Wullschlaegel ; March ! Tweed- 

 side ; Mona" Estate ; near Troy, 2,000 ft. ; Luana Point, Peckham Woods, 

 Clarendon; Green Valley, St. Andrew; Harris ! Fl. Jam. 6010, 9443, 9823, 

 11,037, 12,391. Bahamas, Cuba, Grand Cayman, Hispaniola, Porto Rico, 

 Mexico, Polynesia, Malay Islands, East Indies. 



Shrub, branches trailing among other shrubs and climbing by help of 

 prickles, minutely puberulous-tornentose, much less prickly than C. bondu- 

 cella Fleming. Leaves very large, 3-6 dm. 1. ; rhachis with a few recurved 

 prickles ; pinnae in 2-8 pairs, 7-20 cm. 1. ; leaflets in 4-7 pairs, often with 

 2 hooked prickles at the base of each pair, ovate to elliptical, generally 

 very shortly acuminate, mucronate, base rounded, glabrous, generally 

 slightly leathery, 6-4 (7-2) cm. 1. Racemes usually paniculate, dense at 

 apex in bud, somewhat lax lower, with numerous yellow flowers, 

 l'5-3 dm. L, without prickles or sometimes with a few ; bracts lanceolate- 

 acuminate, 4-6 mm. 1. Calyx 8-9 mm. L, tomentose. Petals a little 



