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different form, somewhat S-shaped, concave, with wavy margin, about 

 15 mm. 1. Pod strap-shaped, slightly curved, somewhat swollen along the 

 margins, glabrous, black, many-seeded, 12-25(-35) cm. 1., about 1 cm. br. 

 The wood is used for firewood ; it is hard but not large enough for general 

 use ; it was formerly exported as a dye-wood. 



[C. siamea Lam. Encyc. i. 648 (1785); leaflets in 6-10('-14) 

 pairs, lanceolate-oblong to oblong-elliptical, apex rounded or 

 emarginate, mucronulate, glabrous on the upper surface, minutely 

 puberulous or glabra.te beneath, somewhat leathery, 3-7 cm. 1. ; 

 glands wanting. — Benth. in Trans. Linn. Soc. xxvii. 549 ; Bah. in 

 Hook. f. Fl. Br. Ind. ii. 264. C. florida Vahl Symh. Bot. Hi. 57 

 (1794); Griseh. op. cit. 208. C. gigantea Bertero ex DC. Prodr. 

 ii. 492 (Me Benth.). C. arborea Macf. Jam. i. 343 (1837). 



Macfadyen ; Wilson; March; Hope Gardens (cult.), Harris] — 

 E. Indies and Malaya ; introduced in the New World. 



A tree, 30 ft. high and more, puberulous on younger parts. Stipules 

 minute (Baker), very soon falling. Racemes corymbose, axillary and form- 

 ing a terminal panicle, 1*5-3 dm. 1., with numerous showy yellow flowers. 

 Bracteoles lanceolate-awl-shaped with lunate lobes about the middle, at 

 base of pedicels, about 6 mm. 1. Sepals greenish-yellow, subequal, 

 5-7 mm. 1. Petals stalked, not conspicuously veined, subequal, 12-16 mm. 1. 

 Pod strap-shaped, with swollen margins, nearly straight, puberulous or 

 glabrescent, 2Q(-25) cm. 1., 12-14 mm. br. 



This species has lately been planted along the streets of Kingston.] 



15. C. alata L. Sp. PI. 378 (1753) ; leaflets 7-8 (6-14) pairs, 

 large, oblong or obovate-oblong, very obtuse, 6-12 cm. 1. ; petiole 

 triangular; glands wanting. — Sw. Ohs. Bot. 162; Wright Mem. 198; 

 Descourt. Fl. Ant. vi. t. 443 ; Macf. Jam. i. 338 ; Griseh. op. cit. 

 209 ; Benth. in Fl. Bras. xv. pt. 2, 126 & Trans. Linn. Soc. xxvii.. 

 550; Urh. Symh. Ant. iv. 275. C. herpetica Jacq. Ohs. Bot. ii. 24, 

 t. 4:5, f. 2 (1767). C. siliquis qnadrialatis &c. Browne Hist. Jam. 

 224. Juglandis folio, fruticosa &c. Sloane Gat. 153 & Hist. ii. 59,. 

 /. 175, /. 2. Herpetica alata Baf. Sylva Tellur. 123 (1838) ; 

 Gooh & Coll. Gontrib. U.S. Nat. Herb. viii. pt. 2, 159, t. 39. 

 Specimen from Hort. Clifi". in Herb. Mus. Brit. 



Ringworm Shrub. 



In fl. Nov. -April ; Ferry, Sloatte Herb. vi. 15 ! Ferry and Sixteen Mile 

 Walk, Browne ; Swartz ; Ferry ; Sulphur River, near Bath ; Macfadyen ; 

 along river-banks, Wullschlaegel ; Port Royal ; Lucea ; Hitchcock ; August 

 Town River, 450 ft., Campbell ! Halfway Tree, Miss Wood ! Ferry River, 

 200 ft., Harris 1 Fl. Jam. 6296, 10,045.— Tropics. 



A s^rM6-4-10 ft. high, glabrous. Stipules obliquely dilated at the base, 

 acute or acuminate, 4-12 mm. 1. Racemes in the upper axils or at the 

 ends of branches, buds overlapping and forming a short cone but lengthen- 

 ing during flowering to 3 dm. and more. Bracteoles large, elliptical, 

 orange-coloured, enclosing the stalked flower-bud, 2-2*5 cm.l., deciduous. 

 Sepals orange-coloured, somewhat unequal, 13-14 mm. 1. Petals yellow- 

 orange, stalked, broader at the apex, veined, 15-20 mm. 1. Pod, before 

 opening, as it were 4-winged, by the development of a broad longitudinal 

 wing in the middle of each valve, 10-15 cm. 1., 1 -5 cm. br. Seeds 4-cornered,^ 

 compressed in the narrow transverse cells, about 7 mm. 1. 



