Ccesalpi7iia^\ Legummosce. 99 



Also in India, Malaya, Polynesia, and the W. Indies. 

 The root has a reputation as a tonic medicine. 



C. Bonducclla, Flem. (Gui/andina, L.). There are specimens of this 

 in Hermann's Herb., and it is n. 156 of Fl. Zeylan. Moon also (Cat. 34) 

 gives it for Kalutara. It is common in nearly all Tropical countries, and 

 probably occurs here, but I have not met with it. Distinguished from 

 C. Bonduc by its smaller leaflets and the possession of stipules ; and 

 figured in Rumph. Herb. Amb. v. t. 49, and in Bentl. and Trim. Med. 

 PL t. 85. 



2. C. Huga,* Ait. Hort. Kew. ed. 2, iii. 32 (181 1). Diya-wawul- 

 £tiya, S. 



Fl. Zeyl. n. 157, C. pam'culata, Roxb., Moon Cat. 34; Thw. Enum. 

 95. C. P. 1525. 



Fl. B. Ind. ii. 255. Wight, Ic. t. 36 (C. panicidatd). 



A large woody climber, bark rough, fibrous, yellowish- 

 grey, young branches glabrous, dark green, distantly set with 

 extremely sharp hooked black prickles which are persistent 

 and become ultimately raised on a mamilliform corky base ; 

 1. large, main rachis about 5 in., pinnae 2 pair, all smooth 

 and polished, cylindrical, with very small, sharp, hooked 

 prickles beneath at the insertion of the lflts., lflts. 4 larely 6 

 (2 or 3 pair) distinctly stalked, distant, 2-2^ in., ovate-oval, 

 obtuse, glabrous, paler beneath; fl. on rather long ped., racemes 

 or panicles terminal and axillary, buds globular; cal. glabrous, 

 segm. very obtuse; fil. hairy in lower half; pod 2\-2\ in. by 

 1^ in. wide, flattened, tapering at base to very short stalk, 

 sharply beaked, glabrous, dark brown, leathery r woody, slowly 

 dehiscent ; seed solitary, oval-rotund, compressed, over f in., 

 smooth, purplish-brown. 



Low country up to 3000 ft.; rather common. Fl. August; yellow, 

 sweet-scented. 



Also throughout the Eastern Tropics. 



The specimen in Hermann's Herbarium is a very bad one, but certainly 

 C. Nuga; it was first called by Linnaeus Casalpinia Crista in Sp. PL 

 380, and afterwards, in Mant. ii. 378, referred to G. Bonduc, and he did 

 not recognise it as his G. Nuga. 



C. Sappan, L., Pattangi, S., the ' Sappan Wood,' is a very ancient 

 introduction to Ceylon, and is frequently met with in a semi-wild state, 

 or planted as a fence. There are specimens in Hermann's Plerb. (Fl. Zeyl. 

 n. 158), and it was formerly much cultivated as a dye-wood, and exported 

 to a large amount, but is now little grown. It is native to India and 

 Malaya, and is figured in Bedd. FL Sylv. t. 90. 



C. pulcherrima, Sw. (Poinciana, L.), the ' Peacock-flower,' is very 

 common in native gardens. It is found throughout the Tropics, but not 

 known in the wild state. There are specimens in Hermann's Herb. (Fl. 

 Zeyl- n. 159;- 



* Nugce silvarum is Rumphius' name for this in Herb. Amboin. v. 

 p. 94, t. y>. 



