Cesalpinia. | Leguminose. 89 
Kumburu (seeds), Kumburu-vel (plant), S. 
The name C. crista Linn. is sometimes used for this plant and 
antedates C. Bonducella, but the first citation is Hermann’s plant 
which is C. Nuga which the name also antedates. 
Trimen’s description is mostly this which seems to be the common 
plant; but read: 
Stipules foliaceous, usually with 2 leaflets, caducous; 
leaflets oblong-elliptic; pods 24-23 in.; seeds usually 2. 
Low country; especially near the sea coasts, rather common, 
scrambling over trees and bushes. Small-pox Island, Jaffna; Dedi- 
wela; Kalutara; Puttalam. 
Called ‘‘ Fever Nut ”’ in India. 
Also throughout the Tropics. 
1a. ©. Bondue Roxb. FI. Ind. IJ, p. 362 (1832), excl. syn. G. 
Bonduc. Linn.; Baker in FI. Brit. Ind. II, p. 255 (1878); Trimen FI. 
Ceyl. II, p. 98 (1894) pp. ?Urban Symb. Antill. II, p. 272 (1900); ?Faw- 
cett & Rendle Fl. Jamaica IV, 2, p. 92 (1920); Petch in Ann. Perad. IX, 
p. 229 (1925). Guilandina Bonducella Linn. Sp. Pl., ed. 2, p. 545 
(1762) pp.; Lour. Fl. Cochinch. p. 265 (1790); Moon Cat. p. 34 (1824). 
G. Bonduc var. majus DC Prodr. II, p. 480 (1825). G. Bonduc 
Wight & Arnott, Prodr. p. 280 (1834) pp. Cesalpinia Jayabo Maza, 
in An. Soc. Esp. Hist. Nat. XIX, p. 234 (1890); Merrill, Interp. 
Rumph. p. 261 (1917); Gamble, Fl. Madr. p. 394 (1919). C. glabra 
Merrill, in Phill. Journ. Sc. Bot. V, p. 54 (1910) non G. glabra Mill. 
Guilandina major Small, Fl. S.E.U.S. p. 591 (1903). HKalu-vavul- 
etiya, S, (Moon), Kumburu-vel, S. (Thwaites). 
As the last species, but stipules wanting; leaflets elliptic, 
acuminate, mucronate; infl. less dense, with straight bracts; 
fls. sessile (in bud); pods large, 4-5 in. long, 2 in. broad, 
oblong, compressed; spines more scattered; seeds about 4, 
cblong-ellipsoid. 
Low country in boggy places (Moon); rather rare? Kalutara 
(Moon); Peradeniya (Thwaites); Nalande. 
Also in S. India and Malaya. 
The specimen collected by Thwaites is this species, but no doubt he 
confused them, hence his S$. name. I doubt if the American plant is 
this species, it sounds much nearer C. Bonducella. 
Page 99.— 
C. PULCHERRIMA Sw. Obs. Bot. p. 166 (1791). 
Wild near stream at Alutoya, near Habarana. 
Page 100.—For C. sepiaria Roxb. read: 
3. ©. decapetala (Roth). Reichardia decapetala Roth, Nov. Sp. 
p. 212 (1821). C. sepiaria Roxb. Hort. Beng. p. 32 (1814) nomen; FI. 
Ind. II, p. 360 (1824). 
Fage to1.—For Peltophorum ferrugineum Bth. read: 
P. inerme Naves, in Blanco FI. Filip. ed. 3, t. 335 ex F. Vill. 
Novis. App. p. 69 (1880). Cesalpinia inermis Roxb. Fl. Ind. II, 
Part If. 
