256 L. LEGUMINOSJI. (J. G. Baker.) \_Ccesalpinia. 



6. C. sepiaria, Roxb. Hort. Beng. 32 ; FL Ind. ii. 360 ; downy, plunge' 

 12-20, leaflets 16-24 small oblong, stamens little exserted, pod oblong-ligulate 

 subturgid veined 4-8-seeded. Wall. Cat. 5834, excl. H. ; TV. $ A. Prodr. 282 ; 

 Wight Ic. t. 37 ; Dalz. $ Gibs. Bomb. FL 80. 0. ferox, Hassk. PI. Jnv. liar. 

 400. C. japonica, Sieb. $ Zucc. FL Jap. 9. 0. crista, Thunb. FL Jap. 179, non 

 Linn. Reichardia decapetala, Roth ; DC. Prodr. ii. 484. Biancfea scandens, 

 Todaro Hort. Bot. Panorm. 4, t. 1. 



HIMALAYAS to CEYLON and AVA, ascending to 4000 ft. in the North-West. Drs- 

 TBIB. Malay isles, China, Japan and introduced in Tropical America. 



Branches more or less densely coated with grey or brown pubescence. Prickles 

 small, copious, hooked, pale brown. Leaves f-1 ft. long ; pinnse distinctly stalked ; 

 leaflets membranous, very obtuse, -1 in. long, green and glabrous above, glaucous 

 and slightly pubescent beneath. Racemes simple, distinctly-peduncled, ^1 ft. long ; 

 pedicels rigidly erecto-patent, twice the length of the calyx. Calyx ^^ in., more or 

 less pubescent. Corolla \ in., bright yellow. Filaments densely woolly" in the lower 

 half. Pod 3-5 in. by above 1 in., sublignose, glabrous, rather recurved, with the upper 

 suture dilated into a narrow Derris-like wing, subindehiscent. 



7. C. mimosoides, Lam. III. t. 335, fig. 2; downy, pinnae 20-60, leaflets 

 20-40 oblong very small, stamens little exserted, pod recurved oblong very 

 turgid 2-seeded. DC. Prodr. ii. 482 ; W. $ A. Prodr. 281 ; Wight. Ic. t. 392 ; 

 Dalz. Sf Gibs. Bomb. FL 80. 0. Sirnora, Ham. in Roxb. Hort. Beng. 32 ; FL Ind. 

 ii. 359. 0. resupinata, Roxb. Hort. Beng. 32 ; FL Ind. ii. 362. 0. horrida, 

 Wall. Cat. 5836. 0. arniata, Grah. in Wall. Cat. 5840. Biancjea mimosoides, 

 Todaro Hort. Bot. Panorm. 3. 



BIRMA at Chappedong, Wallich. WESTERN PENINSULA. CEYLON. 



Branches armed with copious irregular small prickles, passing down gradually 

 into aciculi, bristles and hairs. Leaves 1-lj ft. long, much narrower than in the other 

 species ; leaflets sessile, membranous, sensitive, glabrous, ^ f in. long. Racemes lax, 

 simple, 1-2 ft. long, the rachis densely prickly and like the rigidly erecto-patent 

 prickles very rough with hard raised points ; pedicels 2-3 times the length of the 

 calyx. Calyx - f in., more or less downy. Petals broad, bright yellow, scarcely ex 

 serted. Filaments densely woolly in the lower half. Pod under 2 in. long, more 

 turgid than in the other species, half an inch thick, narrowed to the base, hard, sub 

 indehiscent, clothed with minute deciduous bristles, truncate at the end with a short 

 recurved beak, the sutures not at all thickened. 



SUBGEN. 3. Cinclidocarpus (Z. & M.). Pod rather fleshy, indehiscent, 

 naked on the faces, the sutures much thickened. Petals broad. 



8. C. digyna, Rottl. ; DC. Prodr. ii. 482 ; leaflets 16-20 membranous, 

 pedicels spreading 2-4 times the length of the calyx. Wall. Cat. 5839 ; W. $ 

 A. Prodr. 281. 0. oleosperma, Roxb. Hort. Beng. 32 ; FL Ind. ii. 356. 0. 

 flavicans, Grah. in Wall. Cat. 5825. 0. gracilis, Miq. Flor. Ind. Bat. i. 110. 

 Pterolobium lacerans, Wall. Cat. 5841, F. & I. 



EASTERN HIMALAYAS, EASTERN and WESTERN PENINSULAS, and CEYLON. 

 DISTRIB. Malay isles. 



Branches glabrous or slightly downy ; prickles scattered, uniform. Leaves -f ft. 

 long ; leaflets close, oblong, obtuse, sessile, - in. long, dark green and glabrous 

 above, grey and glabrescent or obscurely downy beneath. Racemes peduncled, simple, 

 equalling or exceeding the leaves; pedicels ^-1 in., slender, glabrous, spreading hori- 

 zontally or rather denexed. Calyx glabrous, \-\ in. Stamens little exserted, woolly. 

 Pod oblong, glabrous, 1^-2 in. long, 2-4-seeded, turgid, torulose. 



9. C. cinclidocarpa, Miq. Flor. Ind. Bat. i. 110 ; leaflets 28-36 rigidly 

 subcoriaceous, racemes copiously panicled, pedicels erecto-patent as long as the 



