410 XLVTII. LT:^'Tf.\rTN()S-T:. 



Leavrs 2-piniiate. 



Flowers in raeeiues or panicles. 

 Sepals imbricate. 



Pod not winged (except ^lifjlitly in C. scpiu.ria) fiO. C.KSALPmiA. 



Pod broadly winged along the upper suiure 61. Mezoneurum. 



Sepals valvate. 



Pod thin, flat fi2. Poinciaka. 



Pod turgid, moniliforni <'>3. Pakkinsonia. 



Plower- in elongate spikes G4. Wagatba. 



Leaves simply pinnate (sometime.-* 2-1'oliolate in CijnoDieiru). 

 Corolla with 5 perfect petals. 



Pod many-seeded ; seetls albuminous 05. Cassia. 



Pod 1 -seeded ; seeds exalbuminous GG. Cvnometea. 



Petals 0. 



Calyx-tube short ; ovary sessile. 2-ovulate G7. HARDwrcKiA. 



Calyx-tube elongate ; ovary stalked, oo -OTulate G8. Saraca. 



Petals 3 perfect, the other 3 reliuced to scales G9. Tamarindus. 



Leaves 1- (rarely by fission 2-) foliolate ; seeds more t)ian 1, albu- 

 minous 70. B.\UHi!<riA. 



Jjeaves 2 (or more) -foliolate ; seed 1, exalbuminous 6G. Cynometua. 



60. C-ffiSALPINIA, Linn. 



Trees or climbing shrubs, unarmed or armed. Leaves large, abruptly- 

 pinnate ; stipules various. Flowers yellow or red, in axillary or teroiiiial 

 laoemes or panicles. Calyx deeply cleft, with the disk confined to its 

 base ; segments 5, in)bi icate, the lowest concave or boat-shaped. Petals 

 distinctly clawed, orbicular (rarely oblong), spreading, imbricate, sub- 

 equal or the uppermost (the inner) smaller than the others. Stamens 

 10, frte, declinate; filaments often villous or glandular at the base: 

 anthers uniform, dehiscing longitudinally. 0\ary sessile or subsessile ; 

 ovules few ; style filiform, sometimes clavate at the ape.x ; stigma ter- 

 minal. Pod oblong or ligulate, flat or turgid, indehi.scent or delii-cent, 

 smooth or prickly. — Distrib. Tropics of both hemispheres ; species 

 about 40. 



Pod armed on ihe face with wiry prickles 1. V. Bonduadla. 



Pod not arined with prickles. 



Leaflets 2-3 pairs 2. C. Niuja. 



Leaflets 8-20 pairs. 

 Pod 3-8 seed, d. 



A small tree 3. C. Suppan. 



A climbiiig si, rub 4. C. fepiuria. 



Pod 2-seeded 5. C. mimosoides. 



1. Csesalpinia Bonducella, Fhmiin/, in Asiai. Res. v. 11 (ISIO) 

 p. 159. An extensive clin.ber; branches tiiiely grey-downy, armed with 

 hooked and straight hard yellow prickles. Leaves 1-2 ft. long; petioles 

 prickly ; stipules a pair of reduced pinnae at the base of the leaf each 

 furnished with a long mucronate point; pinnse G-8 pairs, 2-3 in. long, 

 with a pair of hooked stipulary spines at the base. Leaflets 6-9 pairs, 

 |-] I by 2-§ in., membranous, elliptic-oblong, obtuse, strongly mucro- 

 nate, glabrous above, more or less puberulous beueath; petiolules very- 

 short; stipels of short hooked spines. Plowers in dense (usually 

 spicate) long-peduncled tei-minal and supra-axillary racemes dense at 

 the top, lax downwards, 6-10 in. long ; pedicels very short in bud, 

 elongating to i i]i. in flower and ^ in. in fruit, brown-downy; bracts 

 squarrose, linear, acute, reaching | in. long, ftdvous-hairy. Caly-x 5- 



