Caesalpinia.| LEGUMINOSAE. 109 
a deeper cleft. Petals pale yellow. Standard scarcely eed almost 
1‘ long; the suberect wings and keel-petals nearly as long. mens as 
long, the anthers short ovoid. Ovary silky-pubescent, pretis filiform, 
straight. Pod long-stipitate, straight, beaked, 4—6’ long, about 4’ wide, 
Pay 4- Sino deeply constricted between the seeds, indehiscent. Seeds 
4— oid, light brown or yellow, 4“ long, the punctiform hilum near 
the wit Radicle very short and curved; cotyledons plano-convex. — 
Edwardsia chrysophylla, Salisb. in Linn, Transact. 9, p. 302, tab. 26; Ker. 
Bot. Reg. tab. 738; Gray, Bot. U.S. E. E. p . 459. 
Hawaii! Maui! Kauai! Forms, together with synoran percpnicers yo Raillardia 
struthioloides, the highest belt of hawt on the lee side 8000—10000 ft. 
It descends howeve er as far as 2000 ft. and even cede Bad then becomes aunty hese 
lower forms are nearly glabrate and bear smaller res ers. Nat. me: «Mamani». 
Its hard and durable wood is much valued ds tones pos 
Cultivated species belonging to this tribe are: pana tomentosa, Virgilia aurea. 
SUBORDER I, CAESALPINIEAE. 
Petals all free, imbricate in aestivation, the upper one innermost and 
the two lower outside, either nearly equal, or unequal, and occasionally 
sometimes fewer, or monadelphous, or indefinite.. Radicle usually straight. 
Leaves ee or bipinnate, se reduced to 2 or 1 leaflets. 
and shrubs be g to this Suborder boas are more or less general in 
Ho gen 
Of tree: longin: 
seiivation nak do not fall under ae r wi ing , have to be men ~~ ned: the 
T: i ic hich eek ttlements, species 
amarind tree, Soenrenawe Indi 
of Bauhinia, as B. acuminata, tomento, variegata, — gad ae etc., “Haematozylon 
Campechianum (the Eeeeu ee), Poinciana regia, Saraca Indic 
ere also must be given a rhe to the anomalous Phat pes Forst., or Tahitian 
Chestnut, the Ivi or Mapé. 
20. CAESALPINIA, L. 
Sepals 5, shortly united at the base, nearly equal, or the lower one 
larger and concave. Petals 5, nearly equal, or the upper one the smallest, 
the two lowest outer ones the largest. Stamens 10, free, all fertile, the 
filaments often hairy. Ovary with 2 or more ovules. Pod flattened, ovate, 
oblong, lanceolate or falcate, opening in 2 valves. Seeds ovoid, globose 
or flattened. — Trees or shrubs, often climbing and pri rickly. Leaves 
bipinnate. Mewes yellow or red, generally showy, racemose in the axils 
of the upper leaves, or paniculate and terminal. 
About 38 species, dispersed over the tropical regions of both Worlds. 
1. C. Bonducella, Fleming, Asiat. Res. XI, 159. — A tall spreading 
shrub, not climbing, the branches glabrous and with numerou s hooked 
prickles which are scattered indiscriminately, chiefly over the petioles, 
the pinnae in 4—6 pairs, each 4—6' ‘being baad in, 6-38 ve 
