Ccesalpinia.~\ L. LEGUMINOS^. (J. G. Baker.) 257 



calyx. Cinclidocarpus nitidus, Zoll. 8f Moritz. Nat. Geneesk. iii. 74. C. mi- 

 crophylla, Hamttt. in Wall. Cat. 5826. 0. tortuosa, Wall. Cat. 5827 D. 



ASSAM and SILHET. DISTRIB. Java. 



Obscurely downy. Prickles scattered, uniform. Leaves a foot or more long ; 

 pinnae 20-24 ; leaflets close, sessile, obtuse, ligulate, caducous, |-f in. by -1 in., glossy 

 above. Panicles often as long as the leaves, with finely downy rachises and pedicels. 

 Calyx f-| in. Petals round with a claw, bright yellow. Stamens little exserted. Pod 

 oblong, indehiscent, 23 in. by 1 in., glabrous, 3 4-seeded. 



10. C. tortuosa, Roxb. Hart. Beng. 32 ; Fl Ind. ii. 365 ; leaflets 

 40-60 rigidly subcoriaceous, racemes simple,, pedicels erecto-patent as long as the 

 calyx. Wall. Cat. 5827 A, B, 0. 



TENASSERIM, Wallich. DISTRIB. Malay isles. 



Branches slightly downy. Prickles small, scattered, uniform. Leaves 1-1^ ft. 

 long; pinnee 30-40; leaflets close, glossy, sessile, narrow ligulate, obtuse, - in. by 

 i in., just like those of the last in shape and texture. Racemes as long as the leaves. 

 Calyx f in., glabrous. Pod just like those of the two preceding. 



97. FEX.TOPHORUIK, VogeL 



Tall unarmed trees. Leaves abruptly bipinnate. Flowers showy, yellow, in 

 axillary and panicled terminal racemes. Calyx with the disk confined to the 

 base ; teeth subequal, very deep, imbricate. Petals oblong or roundish, imbri- 

 cated, spreading. Stamens 10, free, declinate ; filaments with a dense tuft of 

 hairs at the base; anthers uniform, linear-oblong. Ovary sessile, free, few- 

 ovuled ; style long, filiform, incurved, stigma large peltate. Pod oblong, flat, 

 thin, hard, indehiscent, with a firm broad wing on each suture. DISTRIB. 

 Species 6, cosmopolitan in the Tropics. 



1. P. ferruglneum, Benth. Fl. Austral, ii. 279 ; flowering pedicels at 

 most as long as the calyx. Oeesalpinia ferruginea, Miq. Flor. Ind. Bat. i. 111. 

 0. arborea, Miq. loc. cit. 112. 0. Glenniei, Thwaites Enum. 414. 0. inerinis, 

 Roxb. Fl. Ind. ii. 367. Poinciana Roxburghii, G. Don Gen,. Syst. ii. 433. 



SINGAPORE, MALACCA, ANDAMANS, and CEYLON. DISTRIB. Malay isles, N. Aus- 

 tralia. 



Young branches clothed with thin bright reddish-brown tomentum. Leaves dis- 

 tinctly petioled, ^-1 ft. long; pinnse opposite, 16-20, - ft. long; leaflets 20-30, 

 close, ligulate-oblong, sessile, obtuse, unequal-sided, -| in. long, rigidly subcoriace- 

 ous, slightly tomentose below. Branches of the panicle numerous, stiffly erecto-patent, 

 conspicuously ferrugineo-tomentose, as is also the calyx ; bracts minute, lanceolate, 

 caducous. Calyx | in. deep. Pod 1 -4-seeded, rigid, glabrous, 2-4 in. by 1 in., narrowed 

 to both ends, closely longitudinally veined. 



2. P. dasyrachis, Kurz MSS. ; flowering pedicels 3-4 times as long 

 as the calyx. Ceesalpinia dasyrachis, Miq. Flor. Ind. Bat. Suppl. 292. 0. 

 Finlaysoniana, Grah. in Wall. Cat. 5971. 



MALACCA, Griffith, Maingay. DISTRIB. Java, Sumatra. 



Very near P. ferruaineum, with which it agrees in vestiture and leaves. Flower- 

 jacemes 6-9 in. by 3 in. ; lower pedicels patent or rather reflexed, 1-1^ in. long ; 

 bracts linear, subpersistent, | in. long. Flowers rather larger. Pod the same shape 

 but rather larger, thinner and not reticulately veined. 



98. ItXEZONEURUIVX, Desf. 



Robust woody prickly climbers. Leaves abruptly bipinnate. Flowers in 

 ample panicled racemes. Calyx very oblique, usually deeply cleft, with the disk 



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