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Stipules large, upper petal smaller than the others, 

 pod narrowly winged along ventral suture, ob- 

 liquely round-pointed with straight beak ... 6. C. sepiaria. 

 Petals oblong (subequal), flowers only *3 in. across, 

 (pod wingless, broadly blunt-pointed with straight 

 beak) ... ... ... ... ... 7. C. parviflora. 



Pod somewhat fleshy, thick-valved with wide sutures 



(ClNCLIDOCARPUs) : 



Leaflets oblong ; racemes lax, pedicels much exceeding 



calyx ... ... ... ... ... 8. C. digyna. 



Leaflets ligulate, racemes denser, pedicels hardly exceed- 

 ing calyx ... ... ... ... ... 9. G. tortuosa. 



Subgen. 1. Guilandina Bak. Pod dry, armed on the face with 

 abundant wiry prickles ; petals narrow. 



1. C^salpinia Bonducella Fleming, Asiat. Research. XI, 159. 

 A climber, often very extensive, with finely grey-downy branches 

 armed with many small hard falcate yellow prickles. Leaves 1 to 2 

 feet long, with a pair of reduced pinnae (or compound stipules) at their 

 base; pinnae 12-16, 2-3 in. long, slightly lengthening upwards, leaflets 

 12-18, membranous, rather pale-green, ovate or elliptic, base slightly 

 unequally rounded, apex cuneate or rounded mucronulate, '5-1 in. long, 

 \3-'6 in. wide, glabrous above, slightly puberulous beneath, more closely 

 on the margins, petiolules very short ; lobes of compound stipnles sub- 

 orbicular. Hacemes terminal and slightly supra-axillary, simple or 

 panicled, dense at top, laxer downwards, 6-10 in. long; pedicels '2 in. 

 (in fruit '3 in.) long, with squarrose reflexed lanceolate deciduous bracts 

 •25-3 in. long, finely brown-downy as are the pedicels and main-rachis. ' 

 Calyx - 25-'3 in. long, closely downy. Petals oblanceolate, little cxserted, 

 yellow except the broader shorter ovate-acute upper with reddish base. 

 Stamens densely grey-silky, declinate. Pcd short-stalked, oblong, 2-3 in. 

 long, 1*75 in. wide, densely strongly aculeate externally. Seeds usually 

 2, oblong, lead coloured, *5 in. across. Roxb. Flor. Ind. II, 357 ; Bak. 

 in Flor. Brit. Ind. II, 254. Guilavdina Bonducella Linn. Sp. PI. 381; 

 Wall. Cat. 5803. G. Bonduc W. & A. Prodr. 280 in part; Miq. Flor. Ind. 

 Bat. I, 113 in part. 



Andamans ; common on the coasts. Penang ; Curtis 99 ! Distrib. 

 Cosmopolitan in the tropics. 



2. CiESALPiNTA Bonduc Roxb. Hort. Beng. 32. A large shrubby 

 creeper often very extensive, with sparingly pubescent branches armed 

 with rather strong falcate brown prickles. Leaves 1-2 feet long, without 

 stipules ; pinnae 8-16, 5-8 in. lone, slightly lengthening upwards, leaflets 

 12-14, papery, ovate, base subequally rounded, apex cuneate mucro- 

 nate, 1*6-2 in. long, '75-1 in. wide, dark-green shining glabrous above, 

 rather closely puberulous beneath, petiolules 08 in. long. Racemes 



