302 L. LEGUMINOSJE. (J. G. Baker.) [Calliandra. 



Pod ft. by 2 in., glabrous, 6-8-seeded, rather turgid, the sutures neither lobed nor 

 thickened. 



130. CAXiXiXANDRA, Benth. 



Shrubs or trees. Leaves bipinnate, with small or large leaflets. Flowers in 

 .globose heads, polygamous, 6-merous. Calyx campanulate, toothed. Corolla 

 funnel-shaped, deeply 5-cleft. Stamens indefinite, monadelphous at the base, 

 filaments filiform much exserted ; anthers minute, not gland-crested. Ovary 

 stalked, many-ovuled ; style filiform, stigma minute capitate. Pod strap- 

 shaped, slightly falcate, flat, rigidly coriaceous, the valves dehiscing with 

 elasticity, bordered by much-thickened sutures, continuous within, narrowed 

 gradually to a short stalk. DISTRIB. Species 80, all the rest Tropical American. 



1. C. Griffith!!, Benth. in Trans. Linn. Soc. xxx. 537; spines minute, 

 bracts linear-lanceolate. 



KHASIAMTS., Griffith. 



Branches slender, terete, glabrous. General and partial petioles very short, gland- 

 less. Leaves as in C. umbrosa ; upper pair of leaflets connivent, oblong-lanceolate, 

 oblique, acuminate, 2-3 in. long, rigidly subcoriaceous, glabrous, strongly veined, lower 

 nearly sessile, \- ^ in. Heads dense, on slender glabrous ascending peduncles 1-2 in. 

 long, from the axils of developed leaves. Calyx in., funnel-shaped ; teeth deltoid. 

 Corolla funnel-shaped, glabrous, f in. ; teeth lanceolate. Pod unknown. 



2. C. umbrosa, Benth. in Gen. Plant, i. 597; spines conspicuous, bracts 

 minute deltoid. Inga umbrosa, Wall. PI. Asiat. Rar. t. 124; Cat. 5273. 

 Albizzia umbrosa, Benth. in Hook. Lond. Journ. Bot. iii. 86. 



SILHET, KHASIA MTS., CHITTAGONG, and PENANG. 



A tree, with slender glabrous branchlets, sometimes furnished with small erecto- 

 patent stipular spines. Leaves short ; pinnae 2, with a pair of large sessile oblique 

 oblong acute rigidly subcoriaceous leaflets at the apex, and an odd much smaller one 

 ^below on the outer side, all with a gland on the rachis at the base. Flowers sessile, 

 in small dense globose heads on short ascending peduncles. Corolla in., yellow, 

 inodorous. Pod 6-9 in. by f-1 in. broad, smooth, finely veined, the valves with 

 elevated rounded thick raised edges. 



131. PZTKECOZiOBZUM, Mart. 



Erect trees. Leaves bipinnate. Floivers in globose heads, usually herma- 

 phrodite and pentamerous. Calyx campanulate or funnel-shaped, shortly 

 toothed. Corolla funnel-shaped, the petals united below the middle. Stamens 

 monadelphous, much exserted; anthers not gland-crested. Ovary sessile or 

 stalked, many-ovuled; style filiform, stigma minute capitate. Pod strap- 

 shaped, falcate or circinate, usually dehiscent and much twisted in a late stage, 

 the sutures not thickened. DISTRIB. Species about 100, cosmopolitan in the 

 Tropics, mostly American, only one African. 



SERIES I. TTnguiscat!. Stipules spinose. 



1. P. dulce, Benth. in Hook. Lond. Journ. 1844, 199 ; pinnae and leaflets 



2," heads in long narrow terminal panicles, flowers sessile, pod coriaceous. 



Bedd. Fl. Sylv. t. 188. Mimosa dulcis, Roxl. Cor. PI. t. 99 ; Hort . Beng. 40 ; 



.Fl. Ind. ii. 656. Inga dulcis, WiUd.\ DC. Prodr. ii. 436; Wall Cat. 5282: 



W. $ A. Prodr, 268; Wight Ic. t. 198. 



