96 leguminos^e. [Ormoda. 



valves. Seeds shining, scarlet, or scarlet and black, rarely brown-red, the 

 radicle very short. — Trees. Leaves pinnate, the leaflets usually opposite, with 

 a terminal odd one. Flowers in terminal panicles, or rarely in simple racemes, 

 in the upper axils. 



A gen.us of several species, distributed over the hilly districts of tropical Asia and tro- 

 pical America. 



Whole plant glabrous 1.0. emarginata. 



Under side of leaves, panicles, and pods woolly or cottony .... 2. . pachycarpa. 



1. O. emarginata, Benth. in Kew Journ. Bot. iv. 77. A tree, glabrous 

 in all its parts. Leaflets 3 or 5, obovate-oblong, very obtuse or emarginate, 

 1^ to 2 in. long or sometimes near 3 in., rather coriaceous, shining, pinnately 

 and reticulately veined. Flowers 4 to 5 lines long, in small panicles in the 

 upper axils. Pod flattened, thickly coriaceous, about 9 lines broad, from 1 in. 

 long when 1 -seeded to \\ or 2 in. when 2 or 3 seeds ripen. Seeds scarlet. — ■ 

 Layia emarginata, Hook, and Am. Bot. Beech. 183, t. 38. 



Common in the Happy Valley woods and other parts of the island, Champion and others. 



2. O. pachycarpa, Champ, in Kew Journ. Bot. iv. 76. A tree, the 

 young branches, petioles, under side of the leaflets, panicles, calyxes, and pods 

 thickly covered with a whitish cottony wool. Leaflets usually 7, obovate-ob- 

 long, the larger ones near 6 in. long. Panicles terminal, 6 in. long, the flowers 

 sessile in pairs along their branches. Calyx 4 to 4^ lines long, the petals 

 scarcely longer. Ovary very villous, with three ovules, and the peculiar style 

 of the genus. Pod hard, turgid, 1 in. long when 1 -seeded, 2 in. when 2- 

 seeded, and near 1 in. broad. Seed rather larger than a tamarind, shining, 

 of a brownish-red. 



In woods, Champion, whose specimens were in fruit only, but flowering specimens were 

 gathered by Reeves, near Canton. It has not been received from elsewhere. 



SUBORDER II. CiESALPINIEiE. 



Petals imbricate in aestivation, the upper one innermost, and the two lower 

 outside, either nearly equal or unequal, and occasionally all wanting, except 

 the upper one. Stamens usually 10, and* all free, but sometimes, in genera 

 not Chinese, fewer, or monadelphous, or indefinite. Kadicle usually straight. 

 Leaves pinnate or bipinnate, rarely reduced to 2 or 1 leaflet. 



30. GUILANDINA, Linn. 



Sepals 5, shortly united at the base, nearly equal or the lowest rather larger 

 and more concave. Petals 5, nearly equal, sessile. Stamens 10, free, all fertile. 

 Ovary sessile, with 2 ovules. Pod ovate, compressed, covered with straight 

 prickles, opening in 2 thickly coriaceous valves. Seeds hard, ovoid or globular. 

 — Leaves twice pinnate. 



A genus of 2 species, dispersed over the tropical regions of the New and the Old World. 



1. G. Bonducella, Linn. Spec. PI. 545. A shrub, with loose spreading 

 or climbing branches, pubescent or villous in all its parts, and with numerous 

 hooked prickles, especially on the petioles. Leaves abruptly bipinnate, the 

 common petiole 1 to 1| ft. long, the pinnae in 4 to 6 pairs, each 4 to 6 in. 

 long. Leaflets in 8 to 12 pairs, oblong, f to 1 in. long or rarely nearly 



