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Young shoots appresged puberulous ; leaflets 7-11, more or less oblong, notched or 



blunt, f, D. cultrata. 



Bracteoles black, short and broad, present during flowering. 



Leaflets blunt or more or less notched with a mucro, D. glauca. 



Leaflets acuminate, D. ovata. 



* * Stamens united into 2 separate sheaths. Flowers tohite or purple. 



Pods velvety. 



Leaves bluntish acuminate ; panicle lax, puberulous ; flowers purple, D. cana. 



O Pods quite glabrous. 



X Leaflets apiciilate, acute or acuminate, rather large. 



Leaflets retuse-apiculate ; panicles lax, puberulous ; flowers white or purplish, . ..D. purpurea. 

 Leaflets acute or shortly acuminate ; panicles tomentose, conglomerate ; calyx glabrous ; 



flowers white, J), glomeriflora. 



X X Leaflets blunt or retuse, rather small. 



Panicle rather lax ; pedicels short or very short ; flowers purple ? ; leaves drying 

 black, D. nigrescens. 



Panicles lax ; pedicels slender ; flowers, white, or purplish outside, leaves not nigres- 

 cent, y D. paniculata. 



DREPANOCARPUS. 



Panicles rusty pubescent ; corolla glabrous, ripe pods thick and fleshy, D. reni/ormis, 



PTEROCARPUS. 



Pods about an inch across, also when young almost glabrous ; calyx more glabrous ; leaflets 

 thin chartaceous, P. Tndicus. 



Pods about 1| to 2 in. across, when young densely velvety-pubescent ; calyx rusty-pubescent ; 

 leaflets coriaceous, P. macrocarpus. 



tERRIS. 



Only tree ; leaflets almost acute with a mucro, D. robusta. 



POMGAMIA -Only tree, P, mitis, 



SOPHORA. 



All parts shortly and softly pubescent, 8. tomentosa, 



ARILLARlAi Only species, ,A, robusta. 



CAESALPINIA. 



Leaflets unequally oblong, retuse. Seeds hardly compressed, C. sappan. 



PELTOPHORUM. 



Pedicels only 2-3 lin. long ; pods with coriaceous wings, P./errugineum. 



POINCIANA. 



Calyx smooth; petals very large, waved, usually crimson, P. regia. 



PARKIMSONIA Only species P. aculeata. 



CASSIA. 



* Filaments of the lower 3 stamens very long and arcuate, the others short or imperfect. 



Pods terete, long, indehiscent. Seeds horizontal, transverse. 

 Racemes drooping, during flowering destitute of bracts. 



All fuUgrown parts glabrous ; flowers yellow C. Fistula. 



Racemes more or less erect the bracts persistent. Floiuers pale or intensely 

 pink-coloured. {Longer filaments node-like thickened at middle.) 



Leaflets shortly acuminate, C. nodosa. 



Leaflets pubescent, retuse or blunt, C. renigera. 



* * Perfect anthers 7 or 10, opening by terminal pores or slits. Pods comjyressed or 



more or less terete, opening along the one or both sutures. 



Pods compressed and ojlen flat, not elastically ojiening. Seeds with aflliform 

 funiele. 



All fuUgrown parts glabrous, C. Siamea. 



All parts pubescent ; stipules large, lunate-reniform, rather persistent, G- auriculata. 



All parts pubescent ; stipules deciduous, C. Timor iensis, 



8AUHINIA. 



* Calyx spathaceous. Stamens 10, 7 or more of them sterile. 



