Caesalpinia. decandria monogynia. 367 



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ovate, two-lobed. Germ obliquely ovate. Style the length 

 of the stamina. Stigma simple. Legume oblong, thin, with 

 a broad membranaceous margin along the upper edge, 

 this wing is about one-third the breadth of the whole 

 and united to the seed-bearing body of the legume by a 

 suture which is somewhat elevated like the nerve of a 

 leaf. Seeds from one to three or four, small, ovate, com- 

 pressed, coloured and smooth. 



14. C. inermis. R. 



Unarmed. Leaves bipinnate ; pinn<s as far as ten pair ; 

 leaflets as far as twenty. Panicles terminal, ferruginous. 

 Pefa?s base of the filaments, and germ very woolly. 



A native of the Moluccas. The legume not seen. 



15. C. lacerans. R. 



Shrubby, scandent, dreadfully armed. Leaves bipin- 

 nate. CaZyces coloured like the corol. Le^wmes unarm- 

 ed, winged, one-seeded. 



Teling. Walekadooda. A large climbing species, most 

 completely armed. It is common in wild, woody, uncul- 

 tivated places, and flowers during the first part of the wet 

 season. 



Stem and longer branches climbing, woody, covered 

 with scabrous, ash-coloured bark ; the smaller branches 

 less so, and armed with innumerable, large, strong, sharp, 

 recurved prickles ; the tender shoots purple. Leaves alter- 

 nate, abruptly bipinnate, from five to six inches long 

 and three broad. Pinnce opposite, from four to eight pair. 

 Leaflets opposite, from four to eight pair, oval, entire, 

 smooth, half an inch long and a quarter of an inch broad. 

 Petioles common, smooth, armed with a pair of recurved 

 prickles below each pair of pinnee, and a single erect 

 one opposite to them on the upper side. Racemes axil- 

 lary, and only from the extreme leaves, which gives them 

 the appearance of a large terminal leafly panicle. Flowers 



