Caesalpinia. decandria monogynia. 



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panicle, or compound raceme, and one or two simple, 

 single racemes from the axils next the panicle. Bractes 

 ovate-lanceolate, but dropping long before the flowers ex- 

 pand. Flowers numerous, pretty large, yellow and fra- 

 grant. Legume obliquely oval, smooth, cpmpressed, cus- 

 pidate. Seed solitary. 



12. C. tortuosa. R. 



Armed, subarboreous, with a long, weak, straggling 

 trunk, and branches. Leaves bipinnate ; pinncB and leaf- 

 lets numerous ; common petiole armed. Racemes axil- 

 lary. Legume from three to four-seeded, twisted, and 

 contracted between the seeds. 



This dreadfully armed species is a native of the Island 

 of Sumatra. From thence the seeds were sent by Dr. 

 Campbell, to the Botanic garden at Calcutta, in 1796. 

 Now, October 1800, the trees are about fifteen feet high, 

 with weak, slender trunks, and few still weaker subscaa- 

 dent branches, armed with numerous very sharp some- 

 ■what incurved, subulate prickles. It blossoms in October 

 and the seeds are ripe in February. 



Leaves bipinnate, a foot or more long. Pinnce from 

 fifteen to twenty pair, opposite. Leaflets from twenty to 

 forty pairs, opposite, tapering from the base to an obtuse 

 point, smooth, firm, and shining, about half an inch 

 long, and one-eighth of an inch broad. Petioles common, 

 keeled on the upperside, and armed with small recurved 

 prickles underneath. Racemes axillary, erect, solitary, 

 generally simple, subcylindric, rather longer than the 

 leaves. Flowers scattered, very numerous, large, yel- 

 low, slightly streaked with red near the base of the pe- 

 tals. Bractes minute, caducous. Calyx herethe lower 

 division is uncommonly large. Corol the two pairs of 

 lateral petals nearly equal, and almost round, the upper 

 one much smaller, deeply emarginate, coloured, hav- 

 ing a long claw. Filaments woolly, alternately smaller 



