856 DECANDRiA MONOGYNIA. Caesalpitiia. 



Caesalpinia elata. Willd. 2. p. 532. 

 A native of Coromandel, where it blossoms during the 

 dry season. 



Trunk erect, though rarely straight, often as thick as a 

 man's body. ^arA: pretty smooth, ash-coloured. Branches 

 numerous, spreading much, the general height of full 

 grown trees from twenty to thirty feet. Leaves alternate, 

 bipinnate, about six inches long. Pinnce from six to 

 seven pair, opposite. Leaflets from ten to twenty pair, 

 sessile, opposite, linear, smooth ; about four lines long, 

 and one in breadth. Petioles common, grooved on the 

 upper side, smooth, and without glands. Stipules mi- 

 nute, subulate. Racemes terminal, coryrabiforra, simple, 

 few-flowered. Flowers large, very gaudy, inodorous, 

 yellow^ Bractes small, one-flowered, caducous. Calyx 

 divided to its fleshy base, into five, equal, lanceolate 

 segments, which are villous on the inside. Petals five, 

 inserted on the fleshy base of the calyx, of which the up- 

 per one is smaller, and deeper coloured, all nearly 

 round, and much curled round the edge. Filaments ten, 

 equal, ascending, -afterwards recurved, twice the length 

 of the petals, thick and villous at the base, inserted on 

 the calyx, within the petals. Anthers incumbent. Germ 

 sessile, linear, villous, one-celled, with from fifteen to 

 twenty ovula attached to the upper suture. Style as long 

 as the filament.s, for some time after the flower expands 

 modestly, recurved from the filaments, which have then 

 a diflerent direction, afterwards ascending, when the fila- 

 ments become declinate. Stigma small, turbinate. 



CAESALPINIA. Schreh gen. n. 703. 



Calyx, base permanent ; border five-parted, and deci- 

 duous. Corol irregular, (ive-petalled, the upper one 

 smaller. Filaments woollv. Anthers all the ten fertile, 

 and open om their sides. 



