( 'as dpinia] 



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Indigenous and naturalized throughout India and Burma. 

 ascending to 5,000 ft. in Jaunsar. Fl. February-June. An 

 excellent hedge plant. Ceylon, .Malay Archipelago. 7. C. 

 mimosoides, Lam. Western Peninsula, Burma. Denselj 

 clothed with prickles, bristles and glandular hairs, pinna- 

 10-30. leaflets 10-20 pair. Pod falcate, turgid, 1-2 in. long. 



8. C. pulcherrima, Sw. — Syn. Poinciana pulcher- 

 rima, Linn. 



A large, glabrous shrub, armed with a few scattered 

 prickles. Fl. large, orange or bright yellow, pedicels 

 more than twice the length of H. Filaments nearly 

 glabrous, twice the length of petals. Pods nearly 

 straight, linear oblong. Hat. 



< kmunonly planted in gardens and villages throughout India 

 and Burma. PI. nearly at all seasons. Home unknown, ha-. 



1 n found, apparently wild, by T. H. Aplin, in December 1887, 



in the Tape! Choung -valley, Shan States, 1,700-5,000 ft. 



C. Pods unarmed, rather 

 sutures much thickened. 



fleshv. iudehiscent. the 



Fi.;. 110. — Csesalpinia 

 sepiaria, Roxb. Fr. J. 



9. C. digyna. Rottler; Kurz F. Fl. i. 407. Vern. Su-let-thi, Bivrm. 



A large scandent, sparingly prickly shrub. Branches glabrous or slightly 



downy, pinnae 5-9 pair. Leaflets obtuse, pale beneath, 8-10 pair, J-i in. long. 



Fl. in simple axillary racemes, 8-1 '2 in. long : pedicels slender, 1 in. long; petals 



orbicular yellow, the upper streaked with red : filaments densely woolly in the 



ir half. Pod oblong, turgid, lj-2 in. long. Seeds 2-4. 



Assam, Bengal, Chittagong, Burma, Upper and Lower. Sambalpur, C. P. (Griffith), 

 Western Peninsula. Fl. July-October. — Ceylon, Mala] Peninsula and Archipelago. 

 TIm- p. "I- are supposed to l"- as valuable for tanning a- those "f C. coriaria, Willdeu '» . 



an unarmed tr t the West Indies and Central America, the Divi-divi of commerce. 



1". C. micropliyria, Ham. : Prain in Journ. As. Soc. B.Miir.. v.il. ii(i lSHX>.-i71. i<\ cinclido- 

 carpa,F\. Brit. End. ii. 171.) Sikkim, Western Bhutan, Assam, Silhet. Pinnae 10-12 

 pair. Leaflets 14-18 pair, rigid, glossy above, obliquely linear, J-f in. long. Fl. in large 

 compound panicles. Calyx glabrous. Pod 2-3 by 1 in. 11. C. tortuosa, Koxb. Tenas- 

 Berlm, Malay Peninsula. Differs chiefly by smaller leaflets and flowers in simple 

 racemes. 



2. PELTOPHORUM, Vogel : Fl. Brit. [nd. ii. 257. 

 Species 7. tropics of both hemispheres. 



P. ferrugineum, Benth. ; Trimen Handb. Ceylon, t. 32. 



A large unarmed evergreen tree. hranehlets rachis and midrib beneath ferru- 

 ginous-pubescent. Leaflets opposite, obliquely-oblong, obtuse, .l-i, 1 in. long. 

 Fl. large, yellow, on erect rusty-t nu' ni"-' panicles. Petals with long ferru- 

 ginous hairs on back, filaments with tufts of silky hair at base, stigma peltate. 

 Pod lint iudehiscent, 2 I in. long, a linn broad wing along each suture. 



Andamans. Fl. May. Ceylon, Malay Peninsula and Archipelago, North Australia. 



3. MEZONEURUM, Desf.; Fl. Brit. [nd. ii. 257. 



Large prickly climbers. Fl. yellow, zygomorphic Calyx oblique, segments 

 strongly imbricate, the lowest much larger than the others and hooded in bud. 

 Stamens 10, free, anthers uniform. Pod quite lint, with a broad papery wing 



along i he dorsal suture. Seeds few. Species 11, tropics of the old world. 



A. Pods L-seeded. Leaflets and calyx glabrous. 



1. M. cucullatum, W. e| A. Vern. Biskoprah, Oudh. 



A large straggling climber, stem covered with Btrong hooked prickles on 



