92 FLOKA OF JAMAICA Cxsaljainia 



32. C^SALPINIA L. 



Shrubs or small trees. Leaves abruptly bipinnate (or with 

 an odd pinna in G. coriaria). Racemes axillary or paniculate at 

 the ends of branches. Calyx 5-cleft ; segments imbricate, nearly 

 equal. Stamens generally villose or glandular at the base. 

 Ovules few. Pod 2-valved or not splitting open, of various 

 forms, with blunt margins, not winged. Seeds without endo- 

 sperm. 



Species about 130, widely dispersed through the tropics. 



Pods prickly. 



Seeds yellow 1. C. Bondtic. 



Seeds grey 2. C . londucelVa. 



Pods smooth. 

 Leaves abruptly pinnate. 

 Pinnae in 5-10 pairs ; leaflets in 8-12 pairs. 



[Climber, very prickly C. sepiaria."] 



Erect shrub, scarcely prickly 3. C. pulclierrima. 



Pinnae in 2-3 pairs ; leaflets in 2 pairs ; 



small tree 4. C.vesicaria. 



Leaves with an odd pinna ; small tree 5. C. coriaria. 



§ 1. Pods covered with long straight prickles. 



1. C. Bonduc Boxb. Hort. Beng. 32 (1814) ; stipules wanting ; 

 bracts erect at first in bud, later spreading, soon falling ; seeds 

 yellow. — Bak. in HooJc.f. Fl. Brit. Ind. ii. 255; BentJi. in Fl. Bras. 

 XV. pt. 2, 66 ; Urh. Symb. Ant. ii. 272 & iv. 278. Lobus echinatus 

 fructu flavo &c. Sloane Cat. 144 & Hist. ii. 40. Frutex globu- 

 lorum Bumph. Amboin. v. 89, t. 48. Guilandina Bonduc L. Sp. 

 PI. 381 (1753) (in part) & ed. 2, 545 (1762) (excl. sy n. PZm^.) ; 

 Griseb. Fl. Br. W. Ind. 204 (excl. syn.). G. glabra Griseb. op. 

 fit. 205 (1860) (excl. locality Martinique) (non Mill). 



Nickar Tree, Yellow Nickar, Bonduc. 



" Among shrubs in the savannas everywhere," Sloane Herb. vi. 19 ! 

 Barham & R. Millar in Herb. Sloane ! in woods, Brougliton ! Wright ! 

 Great Valley, Manchester, Pwdie 1 Prim-; Wullschlaegel ; March I Tweed- 

 side ; Mona Estate ; near Troy, 2,000 ft. ; Luana Point, Peckham Woods, 

 Clarendon ; Green Valley, St. Andrew ; Harris 1 Fl. Jam. 6010, 9443, 9823, 

 11,037, 12,391.— Bahamas, Cuba, Grand Cayman, Hispaniola, Porto Rico, 

 Mexico, Polynesia, Malay Islands, East Indies. 



Shrub, branches trailing among other shrubs and climbing by help of 

 prickles, minutely puberulous-tomentose, much less prickly than C. bondii- 

 cella Fleming. Leaves very large, 3-6 dm. 1. ; rhachis with a few recurved 

 prickles ; pinnae in 2-8 pairs, 7-20 cm. 1. ; leaflets in 4-7 pairs, often with 

 2 hooked prickles at the base of each pair, ovate to elliptical, generally 

 very shortly acuminate, mucronate, base rounded, glabrous, generally 

 slightly leathery, 6-4 (7-2) cm. 1. Racemes usually paniculate, dense at 

 apex in bud, somewhat lax lower, with numerous yellow flowers, 

 1-5-3 dm. 1., without prickles or sometimes with a few ; bracts lanceolate- 

 acuminate, 4-6 mm. 1. Calyx 8-9 mm. 1., tomentose. Petals a little 



