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( Guilaudka.] XL. leguminos^* 



277 



ccmk Bay, Dallachj ; Low Island, Ilenne (the latter specimen a leaf only, and therefore 

 doubtful). A\idely spread and often very common, especially near the sea, in tropical Asia, 

 Atnca and America. It is usuaUy confounded with G. Bonduc, Linn., which is a much 

 rarer plaat, although equally found, indigenous or introduced, in East India, in the Archipe- 

 ^0 and m the A^est Indies. It is nearly glabrous, has usually larger leaflets, no stipules ; 

 Itie bracts arc erect, not recurved, and the seeds are said to be yellow, not ^rey. It remaius 

 to be ascertamed how fir these differences are constant. 



75. C^SALPINIA, Linn: 



Sepals 5, shortly united at the base, much imbricated, the lowest one larger 

 and concave. Petals 5, spreading, rather unequal, the n^jper inner one the 

 smallest, the 3 lowest outer oues the largest. Stamens 10, free-; anthers 

 muform, ovate. Ovary with 2 or more ovules ; style subulate, with a small 

 stigma. Pod flattened, obliquely ovate, oblong or broadly hnear-falcate, with- 

 out prickles, 2-valved. Seeds thick or flattened, with a very small hilum ; 

 albumen none ;_ radicle short, straight.— Shrubs trees or woody climbers, 

 otten armed with scattered recurved prickles. Leaves abruptly bipinnate. 

 blowers yellow, in racemes, eitlier single in the upper axils or forming ter- 

 minal panicles. Filaments more or less hairy at the base. 



A considerable gcuus, sprcaJ over the tropical regions of the New and the Dld^'urld. 

 ^ Austrahaii species are both of them common Asidlic oneS; 



Glabrous. Pinnae 2 to 4 pairs. Leaflets 2 or 3 pairs, ovate, rather acute. 



I'od ovate, 1-seeded . - . ■ . I', a nuga. 



i^ul>escent or tomentose. Pinnfe 6 to 8 pairs. Leaflets 8 to 12 pairs; 



Oblong, very obtuse. Pod oblong, 6 to S-secded 2. C. svjpiana. 



!■ C. nugaj Ait. ;■ DC. Prod. ii. 481. A woody climber, glabrous in all 

 'IS parts, armed with a few scattered recui-ved prickles, especially on the 

 petioles. _ Pinnce 2, 3, or 4 pairs ; leaflets 2 or' 3 pairs to each pinna, ovate, 

 » to 2 in. long, usually rather acute, but occasionally obtuse, coriaceous and 

 shming. Racemes 4 to 8 in. Idwg, forming large terminal panicles. Pedicels 

 siendef.. Lowest sepal about 5 lines long, the others shoiler. Petals scarcely 

 esceedmg the lowest s(?pal. Ovary with 2 ovtilcs. Pod oblimiely ovill, acu- 

 "i.mate, flat, with coriaceous valves: Seed usually solitarv, flat, broad.— C.j?a- 

 «''^«fo/«, Desf. ; DC. Prod. ii. 481 ; Wight, Ic. t. 36. ' 



i}>3^^v^^^^^^- I^'iniard Islands, M'GUlivmv. Generally distributed over E. India and 

 «« Archipelago, cxtcuJing to S. China. 



2. C. feepiaria, Hoxb. ,- JF. and Am. Prod. 282. A' woody climber, the 



ranches petioles ami racemes more or less tomentose or pubescent and armed 



. "J>"fnerous scattered recurved prickles. Pinnae 6 to 10 pairs ; leaflets 8 



^ \^ pnirs, oblong, very obtuse, rarelj exceeding \ in. in lengtli, pubescent 



saV-H f ^ ^^hen young, often glabrous when old. Stipules broad and semi- 



oittate, but very deciduous, or sometimes none. Flowers numerous, yel- 

 calv ^^ '''^^^''"'•^' ^"'^ terminal racemes of 5 or 6 in. Pedicels longer than the 

 lon'"^" tT'"'"^^^ ^"^^^^ acute, very deciduous. Lowest sepal about 5 hues 

 2 f o -^^^ a^oiit 6 lines. Ovary with several ovules. Pod oblong-linear, 

 Doi f ?• '°"^' ""^ "^^I'lv 1 ill- broad, rounded at the end, with a long narrow 

 ^ t' .' glabrous. Seeds 6 to 8, ovoid, thick, the hilura very small at one end. 



"•gK Ic. t.37. 



Queensland. Near Brisbane, Ilenne. An E. Indian species, much planted for hedges, 



