446 BENGAL PLANTS. ([Parkinsonia, 
286. Parkinsonia Linn. 
Small armed trees; leaves 2- -pinnate with a very short, spines- 
cent main-rachis ; pinne with much flattened rachis, even-pinnate; 
leaflets many, small; stipules spinescent; stipels 0. Flowers 
long-pedicelled in short, lax, axillary racemes; bracts small, 
caducous; bracteoles 0. Sepals 5, connate in a short, disk-lned 
tube; lobes slightly unequal, membranous, little imbricate. 
Petals 5, spreading, the uppermost inmost rather wider than the 
rest. Stamens 10, villous below; anthers a dehiscence 
longitudinal. Ovary dlicktty ee many-ovuled ; stipe free 
from disk; style filiform, infolded in bud; stigma terminal, 
minute. Fruit a linear, torulose esi opening late; — 
coriaceous or almost woody. Seeds oblong, elongated, album! 
nous; hilum almost apical. 
- PARKINSoNIA acuLEaTA Linn.; F. B. I, ii. 260; E. D. P. 822. 
Planted, but also as if wild in all the provinces. 
A large shrub. Vernac. Belati kikar. 
287. Poinciana Linn. 
all trees; leaves 2-pinnate; leaflets many, small; stipules 
small; stipels 0. Flowers showy, in terminal corymbs; 
, caducous ; bracteoles 0. Sepals 5, connate in a very short, 
disk-lined tube ; segments valvate, subequal. Petals 5, orbicular, 
imbricate, subean al or the uppermost innermost dis similar. y 
Stamens 10, declinate, free; filaments villous below; anthers 
penne eae leet ip DP. 1085. 
Planted in most of the provinces. T 
A medium-sized spreading tree. The Gold- Mobur ree 
This was introduced to India from Mauritius ; ; the general supf get 
that it is a native of Madagascar does not appear to be correct ; wh 
it came to Mauritius is not exactly known. 
288. Colvillea Boj. le 
Tall trees; leaves 2- -pinnate; leaflets many, small; sti : 
small; stipels 0. Flowers showy, in dense subpanic / 
