Cmalpinia LEGUMIXOS.E 95 



and long trailing branches; branches clothed with grey or brown tomentum, 

 prickly. Leaves 2-3 dm. 1. ; leaflets small, oblong, apex rounded, mem- 

 branous, puberulous, glaucous beneath, 1-2 "5 cm. 1. ; rhachis with recurved 

 prickles. Racemes simple, stalked, with numerous pale yellow flowers, 

 1*5-3 dm. 1.; pedicels erect-spreading, about 2 or 3 times as long as the 

 calyx ; bracts ovate, acuminate, spreading, soon falling, 8-10 mm. 1. Calyx 

 9-12 mm. 1., broad saucer-shaped base persisting in the fruit. Petals 

 12 mm. 1. Stamens slightly longer than the petals; filaments densely 

 woolly below. Pod boat-shaped, with a long beak, persistent and opening 

 wide, 6-8-seeded, 7-10 cm. 1., 3 cm. br. . 



Makes an impenetrable fence.] 



3. C. pulcherrima Sw. Ohs. Bot. 166 (1791); erect shrub, 

 scarcely prickly; pinnae in 5-10 pairs; leaflets in 8-12 pairs. — 

 Griseb. op. cit. 205 ; BentJi. torn. cit. 67 ; Bak. torn. cit. 255 ; Urh. 

 Symh. Ant. ii. 282 & iv. 279. Frutex pavoninus &c. Breyn. Gent. 

 61, t. 22. Sena spuria. . .flore ex luteo et rubro specioso Sloans 

 Gat. 149 & Hist. ii. 49. Poinciana aculeata foliis bipinnatis 

 Browne Hist. Jam. 225. P. pulcherrima L. Sp. PI. 380 (1753) ; 

 Jacq. Sel Stirp. Amer. 122 & Ed. pict. t. 120 ; Bot. Mag. t. 995 ; 

 Macf. Jam. i. 331. Type in Herb. Linn. 



Barbados Pride, Flower Fence, Wild Senna, Spanish 

 Carnations. 



" Moist grounds and gullies by the Rio Cobra banks near the town of 

 St. Jago do la Vega, &c." Sloane Herb. vi. 25, 26, 27 ! Honstoun I Broughton ! 

 Macfadycn ; Lucea, Hitchcock ; Forus, Lloyd ; Hope Grounds, Harris ! 

 Fl. Jam. 8231, 8232. — Bahamas, West Indies, and tropical continental 

 America, universally cultivated in the tropics. 



Shrub or small tree, to 10 or 12 ft. high, glabrous, with only a few 

 scattered prickles on the branches. Leaves 1-3 dm. 1. and more ; leaflets 

 oblique-oblong, apex rounded, close together, 1-2 cm. 1. Racemes showj% 

 terminal, pyramidal, lax, lower pedicels 5-10 cm. 1., sometimes also 1 or 2 

 lateral racemes, with numerous very handsome r6d-orange or yellow 

 flowers. Calyx, sepals unequal, 10-16 mm. 1. Petals roundish, margin 

 crisped, passing into a claw, 2-2-5 cm. 1. Filaments red, about 3 times as 

 long as the petals. Pod nearly straight, flat, linear-oblong, somewhat 

 broader at the apex, mucronate, thin, 6-8-seeded, 8-11 cm, 1., 1*5-2 cm. br. 



4. C. vesiearia L. Sp. PI. 381 (1753) ; small tree, often 

 prickly ; pinnae in 2-3 pairs ; leaflets in 2 pairs. — L. Syst. ed. 10, 

 1018 & Sj). PI. ed. 2, 545; Urh. Symh. Ant. ii. 283. C. bijuga 

 Sic. Ohs. Bot. 166 (1791); Macf. Jam. i. 329; Griseh. op. cit. 205 

 (excl, syn. G. glandulosa Bert, and locality Haiti). Sena spuria 

 arborea spinosa. . .flore luteo &c. Sloane Gat. 149 & Hist. ii. 50, t. 

 181, /. 2, 3. Caesalpinia spinosa foliis minoribus &c. Browne Hist. 

 Jam. 227. Poinciana bijugata Jacq. Enum. PI. Garih. 20 (1760) 

 & Sel. Stirp. Amer. 123. Acacia Bancroftiana Bert, ex DG. Prodr. 

 ii. 473 (1825). Sloane's specimen is in Herb. Mus. Brit. A 

 specimen from Browne named in Solander's hand is in Herb. Linn. 



Indian Savin Tree, Bastard Nicarago, Jack Fish Wood. 

 Passage Fort, and along the road thence to St. Jago de la Vega, Sloane 

 Herb. vi. 40 ! Browne ! Wright 1 Shakspear 1 Bancroft 1 Macfadyen ; Wilson ! 



