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a tree 30-40 feet high, on another that it is a climber 100-150 feet long. Of all three 

 gatherings of Var. ? stipularis it, is noted that the plant is a climber. 



SuBGEN. 3. CiNCLiDOCARPUS Bak. Pod rather fleshy, indehiscent, 

 naked on the faces, with thickened sutures. Petals broad. 



8. C^SALPiNiA DiGYNA Rottl. ex Willd. Nov. Act. Nat. Cur. IV, 

 198 t. 3. A climber with glabrous or slightly downy branches armed 

 with scattered prickles. Leaves 6-9 in. long, pinnae 8-9, 1 •5-2-5 in. 

 long increasing upwards, leaflets 16-20, close, membranous, oblong, 

 obtuse, sessile, base subequally rounded, •35--45 in. long, '25 in. wide, 

 medium-green and glabrous above, grejish and obscurely downy be- 

 neath ; stipules subulate, membranous, very early deciduous. Racemes 

 simple axillary, 8-12 in. long, 3 in. wide, pedicels distant slender hori- 

 zontal or slightly deflexed, 1 in. long, glabrous as is the main-rachis. 

 Calyx leathery, quite glabrous, '3 in. long. Corolla spreading, '75 in. 

 across, petals orbicular, -3 in. in diam., subequal, yellow except the upper 

 slightly streaked with red. Stamens little exserted, filaments greenish- 

 white, densely woolly in the lower half, declinate. Pod rather fleshy, 

 indehiscent, oblong, glabrous, with much thickened sutures, 1*5-2 in. 

 long, 1 in. across, turgid, torulose ; seeds 2-4, black, ovoid, "5 in. long, '4 

 in. wide. DC. Prodr. II, 482; Wall. Cat. 5839; W. & A. Prodr. 281; 

 Bak. in Flor. Brit: Ind. II, 256. C. oleosperma Roxb. flort. Beng. 32; 

 Fl. Ind. II, 356. G. Jlavicans Grab, in Wall. Cat. 5825. G. gracilis 

 Miq. rior. Ind. Bat. I, 110. Pterolobium lacerans Wall. Cat. 5841 

 letters F, H, and I ; not of R. Br. 



Malacca ; Griffith ! Penang ; Curtis 448 ! Tongkah ; Curtis' Col- 

 lectoi' 2862 ! Distrtb. India, Indo-China, Malay Archipelago. 



9. C^SALPiNiA TORTUOSA Roxb. Hort. Beng. 32. A stout subscan- 

 dent straggling shrub, with slightly downy spreading branches armed 

 with very strong prickles. Leaves 12-18 in. long, pinnae 30-40, 2*5-4 

 in. long, the proximal and distal rather shorter than those between, 

 leaflets 40-60, sessile, close, rigidly subcoriaceous, narrowly ligulate, 

 apex obtuse or rounded, base obliquely cuneate, •25-3 in. long, '1 in. 

 wide, dark-green, glabrous on both surfaces, shining above. Racemes 

 axillary, simple, erect, 15-18 in. long, 1*5 in. across, pedicels spred;ding, 

 •5 in. long, slender, glabrous as is the stout rachis, bracts very small 

 caducous. Calyx '5 in. long, leathery, quite glabrous, the lower segment 

 very deeply cucullate, '35 in. wide. Corolla spreading, '75 in. across, 

 petals bright-yellow with red streaks near base, all orbicular clawed, 

 •5 in. across except the upper only -25 in. iii diam. Stamens little- 

 exserted, declinate, green, densely woolly in lower half. Pod oblong, 

 twisted, indehiscent, glabrous, with much thickened sutures, 2-3 in. 

 long, 1 in. across, turgid, torulose; seeds 2-5, hard, smooth, dark-brown, 



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