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2. Shrubs or trees; leaflets many, 7 or more pairs on each pinna. 
3. Stamens several times as long as the petals; pods about 2 cm wide. 
3. C. pulcherrima 
3. Stamens not or but little longer than the petals; pods 3 to 4 em wide. 
4. C. sappan 
1. C. crista L. (C. bonducella Flem.). Calumbibit (Tag.). 
A scandent woody vine reaching a length of 10 m or more, the stems 
very spiny. Leaves bipinnate, often nearly 1 m long, the rachis armed 
with stout, sharp, recurved spines; pinnae usually about 10 pairs, about 
20 cm long, with a pair of short sharp spines at the attachment of each 
pair of leaflets. Leaflets about 10 pairs, oblong, obtuse or acute, somewhat 
pubescent, 2 to 5 cm long. Racemes axillary, simple or panicled, dense 
at the top. Flowers yellow, about 1 cm long. Pods 5 to 7 em long, oblong, 
inflated, covered with slender spines. Seeds large, one or two, PUbEigpore, 
hard, gray, shining. 
In thickets especially near the sea, fl. Sept._Jan.; throughout the Philip- 
pines near the seashore. Cosmopolitan in the fropies 
2. C. nuga (L.) Ait. Sapinit (Tag.). 
A glabrous, scandent shrub reaching a length of 10 m or more, the 
branches armed with short, stout, hard, hooked prickles. Leaves bipin- 
nate, 20 to 30 cm long, the rachis armed with recurved spines beneath; 
pinnae 6 to 8, rather distant; leaflets 4 to 6 on each pinna, coriaceous, 
shining, ovate to elliptic-ovate, acute, 2 to 5 cm long. Panicles terminal, 
ample, many-flowered. Flowers yellow, racemosely arranged, about 1 cm 
in diameter. Stamens woolly at the base, slightly exserted. Pods 4 to 5 
em long, 2.5 to 8 cm wide, beaked, hard, indehiscent, containing a single 
seed. (FI. Filip. pl. 150.) 
In thickets near the seashore or within the influence of brackish water, 
Pasay, fl. all the year; throughout the Philippines near the sea. Tropics 
of the world. 
3. C. PULCHERRIMA (L.) Sw. Caballero (Sp.-Fil.). 
An erect, glabrous, sparingly spiny shrub or small tree 1.5 to 8 m high. 
Leaves bipinnate; pinnae 4 to 8 pairs, 6 to 12 cm long; leaflets sessile, 7 
to 11 pairs, obtuse, elliptic, 1 to 2 em long. Racemes terminal, lax, the 
pedicels long, slender. Flowers red and yellow, or yellow, about 4 cm in 
diameter, the petals crisped, clawed; stamens long-exserted. Pods 5 to 9 
em long, 1.5 em wide. (FI. Filip. pl. 112.) 
Commonly cultivated for ornamental purposes, fi. all the year. A 
native of tropical America, introduced here at an early date, and natural- 
ized. Now everywhere in the tropics. 
4, C. SAPPAN L. Sappang, Sibucao (Tag., Vis.). 
A small tree 3 to 5 m high, with scattered prickles. Leaves up to 50 
em long; pinnae about 20, opposite, 10 to 20 cm long; leaflets 20 to 30, 
oblong to oblong-rhomboid, very oblique, attached at the lower corner, 
apex usually retuse. Panicles often as long as the leaves, terminal. Flow- 
ers yellow, 2 to 2.5 cm in diameter, the filaments densely woolly in the 
lower one-half. Pods oblong to oblong-obovate, hard, indehiscent, shining, 
about 7 cm long, 3.5 to 4 em wide, with a hard recurved beak at the upper 
angle. (FI. Filip. pl. 121.) 
In thickets, San Pedro Macati, fl. Aug.—Sept.; common and widely 
distributed in the Philippines, but probably introduced. India and Malaya. 
