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terminal and supra-axillary simple or panicled, rather lax thronglioiit, 

 6-12 in. long; pedicels '2 (in fruit 'S) in. long, with membranous 

 lanceolate deciduous bracts "2 in. long, finely brown-pubescent as are the 

 pedicels and main-rachis. Calyx •2-'25 in. long, closely downy, light- 

 green, tinged with pink. Petah oblanceolate, little exserted, yellow. 

 Stamens silky, declinate. Pod rather distinctly stipitate, oblong, 5 in. 

 loug, 25 in. wide, sparsely strongly aculeate externally. Seeds usually 

 4, oblong, -5 in. across. Roxb. Flor. Ind. II, 362 ; Bak. in Flor. Brit. 

 Ind. II, 255. Guilandina Bonduc Linn. Sp. PI. 381 ; DC. Piodr. II, 

 480; Wall. Cat. 5806; W. & A. Prodr. 280 in part; Miq. Flor. Ind. 

 Bat. I, 113 in part. 



NiCOBARS ; King's Collector! Penang ; Wallich 5806! Pahang ; 

 Bidley 2650! Perak; Scortechini 1062! Kunstler 7147! Wray 3089! 

 DiSTRiB. Cosmopolitan in the tropics. 



SuBGEN. 2. EuCJiSALPiNiA. Po£? dry, unarmed, valvcs thin ; petals 

 broad. 



§ 1. ITuGARiA DC. Leaflets few coriaceous shining ; pe^aZ^ short- 

 clawed ; stamens not far exserted ; seeds J, rarely 2. 



3. C^SALPiNiA NuGA Ait. Hort. Kew. Ill, 32. A very extensive 

 littoral climber, with glabrous green branches armed with very strong, 

 short, hard, dark, hooked prickles. Leaves 6-12 in. long, pinnae 6-8, 

 rather remote, subequal, 2-3 in. long, leaflets 4 or (oftener) 6, rigidly 

 coriaceous, dark-green and shining above, ovate, acute or very rarely 

 obtuse, base slightly unequally rounded or sometimes cuneate, l-2'5 in. 

 long, "5-1 in. wide, quite glabrous on both surfaces ; petiolules '15 in. 

 long. Racemes in a terminal panicle extending into the axils of the 

 uppermost leaves, 10-15 in. long, 6-8 in. across, individual racemes 2'5-3 

 in. long; pedicels '3 (in fruit "5) in. long, with small ovate-lanceolate 

 deciduous bracts 'I in. long. Calyx •25-3 in. long, leathery, quite glab- 

 rous. > Corolla *5 in. across, fragrant, petals yellow, orbicular except the 

 rather smaller ovate-acute upper blotched with red. Stamens densely 

 woolly at base, declinate. Pod 2 in. long, 1*35 in wide, oblong, beaked, 

 hard, slightly turgid, indehiscent. /S'eeeZ solitary, black, 1 in. long, '75 in. 

 wide. DC. Prodr. II, 481 ; Miq. Flor. Ind. Bat. T, 108 ; Bak. in Flor. 

 Brit. Ind. II, 255. Csesal'pinia panictdata De«f. Cat. ed. 2, 210 ; Roxb. 

 Hort. Beng. 32 ; DC. Prodr. II, 481 ; Roxb. Flor. Ind. II, 364 ; W. & 

 A. Prodr. 281 ; Wight, Ic. t, 36. G. sumatrana Wall. Cat. 5831 B, C, 

 not of Roxb. C. hijuga Wall. Cat. 5833, not of Sw. G. scandens 

 Koenig in Roth, Nov. Sp. 289 ; DC. Prodr. II, 482 ; Wall. Cat. 5829. 

 Guilandina Nuga Linn. Sp. PL ed. II, 545. Nuga sylvamm Rumph. 

 Herb. Amboin. Y, t 50. 



Andamans; very common on all the coasts and near muddy creeks. 



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