ENUMERATION OF PHILIPPINE LEGUMINOSAE. 53 



on account of the confusion in nomenclature that such a course of procedure 

 will entail. Delonix is here adopted for the present genus, as vmder no rules at 

 present in force can Poinciana be retained for it. 



27. CAESALPINIA Linn. 

 Pods armed with abundant wiry prickles; petals narrow; scandent spiny shrubs 



( § GUILANDINA ) . 



Leaves with large foliaceous stipules ; leaflets mostly less than 2.5 cm in length ; 



pods 5 to 7 cm long *— 1. C crista 



Leaves without stipules; leaflets 3 to 5 cm long; pods about 10 cm long. 



2. C. glabra 

 Pods unarmed; petals broad. 



Leaflets coriaceous, few, 2 or 3 pairs on each pinna, 2 to 6 cm long, acute; pods 



short, the seeds solitary, rarely 2 (§ nugaria) 3. C. nuga 



Leaflets membranaceous or subcoriaceovis, many, 8 or more pairs on each pinna, 

 mostly less than 2 cm long, rounded; pods with from 5 to 8 seeds. 

 Petals distinctly clawed; stamens long-exserted, several times as long as the 



petals; pods about 2 cm wide (§ caesalpinabia ) 4. C. pulcherrima 



Petals not or but slightly clawed; stamens short, not or but slightly exserted 

 ( § SAPPANIA ) . 

 An erect tree; stipules none; pods 3 to 4 cm wide; with a stout spreading 



beak at the upper angle of the obtuse apex 5. C. sappan 



Scandent spiny shrubs; pods oblong or linear-oblong, less than 3 cm in 



width; stipules present, deciduous 6. G. sepiaria 



1. Caesalpinia crista Linn. Sp. PI. (1753) 380, (excl. syn. Fl. Zeyl. 157, pro 

 parte, Herm. zeyl. 12), non ed. 2 (1762) 544, nee aliorum; Urban Symb. Antill. 2 

 (1900) 269. 



Guilandina honduc Linn. 1. c. 381, non ed. 2 (1762) 545. 



Guilandina honducella Linn. 1. c. ed. 2 (1762) 545; Blanco Fl. Filip. (1837) 

 343, ed. 2 (1845) 239, ed. 3, 2: 81. 



Caesalpinia honducella Flem. As. Res. 11 (1810) 159; Baker in Hook. f. Fl. 

 Brit. Ind. 2 (1878) 254; F.-Vill. Nov. App. (1880) 69; Prain ex King in Journ. 

 As. Soc. Beng. 66= (1897) 226. 



Guilandina crista Small Fl. Southeast. U. S. (1903) 591; W. F. Wight ex 

 Sailcrd in Contr. U. S. Nat. Herb. 9 (1905) 288. 



Luzon, Province of Union, Elmer 5723, Fenix 11: Province of Pangasinan, 

 Bur. Sci. 4969 Ramos: Province of Bataan, Williams 332, Elmer 7002, MerriU 

 3284. MiNDORO, For. Bur. 5535 Merritt. Cebu, Barrow S. Mindanao, Distrirl, 

 of Davao, DeVore d Hoover 155, Copeland 345. 



Native names: Calambibit (widely used) ; dauer (Union) ; bangbang (Cebu) ; 

 dalagdag (Mindoro) ; dalugdug ex Blanco. 



Widely distributed in the Philippines near the seashore; cosmopolitan in the 

 tropics of the world. 



The synonj-my of this species is rather complicated, but it has been cleared up 

 by Urban.^ The first citation given by Linnaeus is to his Flora Zeylanica no. 

 157, but this is only in part {Pluk. aim. 4. t. 2. f. 2) referable to the present 

 species, the reference to Herm. zeyl. 12 being an error, for Trimen ^' calls attention 

 to the fact that the specimen in Hermann's Herbarium is Caesalpinia nuga (L.) 

 Ait., and not C. crista. Guilandina bonduc and G. honducella Linn., as cited above, 

 are certainly identical with C. crista Linn. 



""Symb. Antill. 2 (1900) 269-271. 

 =^F1. Ceyl. 2 (1894) 99. 



