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cisely those of our Mezoneurum cucullatum, that we are much disposed to 
ame if they do not belong to that plant, and the legumes to something dif- 
erent. 
869. (2) C. paniculata (Roxb.:) scandent: branches and petioles armed 
with numerous sharp recurved prickles: leaves bipinnated ; pine 3-4 pair ; 
leaflets 3-4 pair, ovate-lanceolate, somewhat coriaceous, glabrous, shining on 
the upper side, usually rusty-coloured beneath: flowers in terminal panicles ; 
pedicels about equal to or longer than the flower: calyx glabrous: legume 
obliquely oval, cuspidate, shortly tapering at the base into a kind of short 
stalk, compressed, a little tumid in the middle, glabrous: seed solitary, 
roundish, very thick but a little compressed.— Rob. hort. Bengh. p. 82 ; fl. 
Ind. 2. p. 364; in E. I. C. mus. tab. 1553; DC. prod. 2. p. 481; Wight! 
cat. n. 618.—Ceesalpinia, n. 157, Linn! in herb. Herm.; fl. Zeyl.—C. scan- 
dens, Koen.; herb. Madr.! ; Heyne in Roth, nov. sp. p. 209 ; DC. 1. c. p. 482; 
Wall.! L. n. 5829.—Guilandina paniculata, Lam. enc. meth. 1. p. 435 ; Spr. 
syst. 2. p. 827.—Rheed. Mal. 6. t. 19. Malabar. Travancore. 
This is n. 157 of the flora Zeylanica, a plant which appears to have puzzled 
Linneeus very much: in the first edition of the Sp. pl. p. 380, it is, along 
with Pluk. t. 2. f. 2, referred to C. crista ; but in the second edition (p. 545), 
the synonym of Plukenet is transferred to Guilandina Bondue, while that of 
the fl. Zeyl. is entirely omitted : in Linneeus’ own copy, however, of the Sp. 
pl, a mst. note has been made, wherein he unites the fl. Zeyl. synonym also 
to G. Bonduc, and this has been likewise done by Willdenow. The speci- 
men in Hermann's herbarium is without fruit.—Roth's description is accurate, 
except where he appears to have been deceived by the often rusty colour of 
the under side of the leaflets, and has described them pubescent. 
870. (3) D. Sappan (Linn.:)"arboreous, armed: pinne of the leaves 10-12 
pair; leaflets 10-12 pair, unequal sided, obliquely oval-oblong, emarginate, 
paler and minutely dotted on the under side: flowers in terminal panicles : 
calyx glabrous: legumes compressed, woody, glabrous, elliptic-obovate, 
obliquely truncated, cuspidate at the apex, 3-4-seeded.— Linn. sp. p. 544 ; 
DC. prod. 2. p. 482 ; Spr. syst. 2. p. 9344; Roxb. Cor. 1. t. 16 : fl. Ind. 2. 
p.957; Wall! L. n. 5838; Wight! cat. n. 619, 620.— Cresalpinia, n. 158, 
Linn.! in herb. Herm.! (without fruit) ; fl. Zeyl.—Rheed. Mal. 6. t. 2. 
871. (4) C. digyna (Rottl.:) scandent, armed with numerous small re- 
curved prickles: pinnæ of the leaves 7-10 pair ; leaflets 6-10 pair, linear- 
oblong, obtuse, glabrous: stipules subulate: racemes supra-axillary, simple, 
somewhat shorter than the leaves: pedicels long slender: legume oblong, ob- 
liquely pointed, very protuberant at the seeds, glabrous, 2-3-seeded.—Reottl.! 
in nov. act. nat. cur. Berol. 1803, p. 198. t. 3; DC. prod. 2. p. 482; Wall. ! 
L. n. 5839; Wight! cat. n. 616.—C. oleosperma, Roxb. fl. Ind. 2. p. 356.— 
Guilandina oleosperma, Roxb. in E. I. C. mus. tab. 59. — : 
here are óccasionally two ovaries in a flower, but this is so very inconstant 
and unnatural, that we had almost adopted in preference the much better 
name given by Roxburgh. ‘ From the seeds an oil is expressed, in some 
parts of the country, which is used to burn in lamps.” —RoxB. 
872. (5) C. mimosioides (Lam. :) scandent ; stem and branches armed with 
numerous straight prickles ; young parts coloured, armed with prickles and 
ndular hairs or bristles: pinne of the leaves 12-30 pair ; leaflets 8-16 pair, 
lear-oblong, obtuse, glabrous: common petiole armed with usually 3 
_ prickles at the insertion of each pair of pinnse, two of them on the under 
Side recurved, one on the upper bent upwards: sti] ules ensiform: racemes 
simple, leaf-opposed and terminal: legumes short, obliquely truncated, cus- 
idate, about a half longer than the breadth at the top, turgid, somewhat 
iy; $-aobded.-— Lom. enc. meth. 1: p. 487 5. W k 995. f. 2; DC. prod. 2. 
P. 482 ; Spr. syst. 2. p. 344; Wight ! cat. n. 614.—C. Simora, Ham. in Roxb. 
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