71. 



NATURAL HISTORY OF PLANTS. 



are much exserted. This section includes some dozen unarmed 

 species. 1 



Under the name of Guilandina 2 (Fr., Bondncs or Cniqiiiers) a special 

 genus has been made of two prickly climbing species of Ccesalpinia, 

 with swollen pods, whose thin pericarp thickly covered with prickles 

 contains only a few large grey or yellow seeds with very hard coats. 

 The two species of this section 3 are found on the sea coast in all 

 warm countries. 



In Pomaria 4 the calyx, fruit, and most of the vegetative organs 

 are covered with more or less prominent glands instead of prickles. 

 In all other respects the five or six American species 5 of this section 

 resemble Casalpinaria. Ergthrosfemon 6 has been placed alone in a 

 neighbouring section because its pod is less glandular, and its stamens 

 have red, much-exserted filaments, as in C. pulclierrima. It is a 

 plant from temperate and South America, 7 which flowers well in our 

 gardens. 



Nugaria? on the contrary, consists of prickly climbers like Guilan- 

 dina ; but forms a distinct section because the pod is unarmed and 

 the breadth of the seed exceeds its length. It includes two species 9 

 from Asia and Australia. In all the foregoing sections the pod 

 dehisces at maturity by two longitudinal clefts. 



In all the remaining species of Ccesalpinia the dehiscence is incom- 

 plete or very tardy, or the fruit is indehiscent. The sutures may 

 be thickened, as occurs in CindidocarpHS™ a section containing three 

 or four species of prickly climbing shrubs from tropical Asia, re- 

 sembling Nugaria. In Libidibia" (the Divi-divi Trees ; Fr., Libidibis), 

 which contains five American species, 10 the sutures of the pod are 



1 DC, Mem. Legum., 11, t. 23, fig. Ill; 

 Prodr., ii. 484. — Reichb., Gart. Mag., t. 93.— 

 Bubm., Fl. Ind., 133. 



2 L., Gen., n. 517.— J., Gen., 350.— GiEETN., 

 Fruct., ii. t. 148. — Lame., Diet., i. 434 (part.) ; 

 III., t. 336.— DC, Prodr., ii. 480— Spach, 

 Suit, a Buffon, i. 98.— Bonduc Plum., Nov. 

 Gen., 25. 



3 Rumph., Kerb. Amboin., t. 48, 49. — Ait., 

 Kort. Kew., iii. 32. 



4 Cav., Icon., v. 1, t. 402. — Endl., Gen., n. 

 6771. — Cladotrichium Vog., in Linncea, xi. 401. 



5 DC, Prodr., ii. 485.— Clos, ap. C. Gat, 

 Fl. Chil., ii. 223. 



s Kl., ap. Lixk Kl. & Ott., Icon., i. 97, t. 39. 

 ' C. Gilliesii. — Poinciana Gilliesii Hooe., 



Pot. Misc., i. t. 31; Pot. Mag., t. 406.— 

 Lindl. & Paxt., Mag., i. t. 28. 



8 DC, Mem. Legum., xiii. ; Prodr., ii. 481, 

 sect.? i. — Ticanto Adans., loc. cit., 319. 



9 Buem., Fl. Ind.,99.—B.vyiYU.,Kerb.Am- 

 loin., v. t. 50. — Ait., Kort. Kew., iii. 32. — 

 Wight, Icon., t. 36.— Bentii., 17. Kongk., 97. 



10 Zoll., in Nat. Gen. Arch., iii. 74, 81.— 

 Miq., Fl. Ind.-Bat., i. p. 1, 110.— Wight, Icon., 

 t. 37. 



11 Libidibia DC, op. cit., 483, sect, iv.— 

 Cham., in Lkmcea, v. 192. 



12 K., Mimos., t. 45.— W. Spec, ii. 432.— 

 Jacq., Amer., 123, t. 175, fig. 36.— Boitfl., 

 PI. Mquin., t. 137.— Kaest., Fl. Columb., t. 

 101, 129. 



