Ciesa1_pini<i LE< lU.MIXOS.i: 95 



and long trailing branches; branches clothed \vitli grey or brown tomentuin, 

 prickly. Tjcurc* 2-3 dm. 1. ; leatle .ill, oblong, apex rounded, mem- 



branous, puberulous, glaucous beneath, 1 2'5 cm. 1. ; rhachis with recurved 

 prickles. /,''/<,;, x -imple, stalked, with numerous pale yellow flowers, 

 l -5-0 dm. 1. : pedicels erect-spreading, about 2 or 3 timr- a> Loi :ln- 



calyx; bracts ovate, acuminate, spreading, soon falling, 8 lomm.l. Ca 

 '.) 12 mm. 1., in-. -ad -;mc> T-shaped base persisting in the fruit. 

 12 mm. 1. StcoHi'ns >lix'htly longer than the petals; filament 

 woolly below. Pod i>at->ha|>rd, with a long beak, persistent and opening 

 wide, f, --seeded, 7-10 cm. 1., 3 cm. br. 

 Make> an impenetrable fen-- 



''>. C. puleherrima titu. Ob*. Bot. 160 (1791); erect shrub. 

 scarcely prickly ; pinna 1 in -~>-10 pairs; leaflets in ^ 12 pairs. - 



op. <-it. I'D.") ; llmtli. turn. dt. 67 ; BU. im. <//. 255 ; Urb. 

 Ant. il. 2>2 A- iv. 271*. Frutex pavoniiius Arc. Jln-ijii. <'<'<it. 

 61, /. 'I'l. Sena spuria. . .flore ex luteo et rubro speciosu Sl<><in> 

 <'<it. 149 et Hist. it. 49. Poinciana aculeata foliis bipinrmiis 

 Brotcnr Hist. -Jn.nl. L* !'.">. P. puleherrima L. 8p. PI. 380 (17">3) : 

 Jacq. SeL Stirj>. Amer. IL'L' ,V: E<1. p/'rt. i. 120; Bot. May. t. 

 Jam. i. 331. Type in Herb. Linn. 



Barbados Pride, Flower Fence, Wild Senna, Spanish 

 Carnatioii>. 



" Moist grounds and gullies by the Rio Cobra banks near the town of 

 St. Jago do la Vega, &c." Sloane Herb. vi. 25, '2Q, 27 ! Houstoun ! Brougliton I 

 Macfadyen ; Lucea, Hitchcock; Porus, Lloyd; Hope Grounds, Harris'. 

 il. Jam. 8231, 8232. Bahamas, \Ve^t Indies, and tropical continental 

 America, universally cultivated in the tropics. 



Slimb or small tree, to 10 or 12 ft. high, glabrous, with only a few 

 scattered prickles on the branches. Leaves 1-3 dm. 1. and more ; leaflets 

 oblique-oblong, apex rounded, close together, 1-2 cm. 1. I\<tccni> * showy, 

 terminal, pyramidal, lax, lower pedicels 5-10 cm. L, sometime- also 1 

 lateral racemes, with numerous very handsome red-orange or yellow 

 flowers. Caly,i\ sepals unequal, 10-16 mm. 1. Petals roundish, margin 

 crisped, passing into a claw, 2-2*5 cm. 1. Filaments red, about 3 times as 

 long as the petals. Pod nearly straight, flat, linear-oblon.L;, -"mewhat 

 broader at the apex, mucronate, thin, 6-8-seeded, S-ll cm. L, 1-.0-2 cm. br. 



4. C. vesiearia L. Sp. PL 381 (1753); small tree, often 

 prickly ; pinna 1 in '1 "> pairs ; leatlets in 2 pairs. -L. Sy*f. ><L !<'. 

 1018 & Sp. I'l. ed. 2, 545; Urb. Symb. Ant. ii. 283. C. bijuga 

 ,SV. o/,x. Bt. 16i (1791) j M",-f. Jam. i ;}2: : Griseb. op. ci<. 205 



(excl. syn. C. 'jltiHiliiIoxa Bert, and locality Haiti). S.-na ^puria 

 arbon-a spinn-a. . .tl<rc lutco kc.Sl"nr Cut. !!'.' A- llixt. ii. "ii. /. 

 1 ' s 1 . /'. 2. .">. Csesalpinia spinosa foliis minoribus <fea Brn-,i>- II/*t. 

 .hint. 227. Poinciana Itiju^ata Jacij. Eiuiui. 1*1. ('<t,-ili. 2(> (17''tH' 

 A- Stl.Stirj,. Ani'i-. 12.">. Acacia Bancroft ian a B< rt. .<])('. rr,l,-. 

 it. 4~."> (1*25;. Sloanc's spociincn is in llcrli. .Mus. P>rit. A 

 specimen from Bmwnr namcil in Solander's hand is in ILerl). Linn. 



Indian Sa\in Tree, Bastard Xicara-o, .1 Fish V. 



Passage Fort, and along tl d them , la Vc. 



H.-rb. vi. -lo ! ' W / '! Shakspear\ J:a net-oft'. M yen; \\'il* 



