Cesalpinia, | LEGUMINOSR. 405 
albumen.—Shrubs, often scandent, rarely trees, with or without 
peickles, the leaves = bipinnate. Flowers often showy, i 
simple or panicled racem 
+ Stamens as long or a 1 longer than the petals. Seeds 
>see albumen. Scandent prickly shrubs, rarely small 
.¢ "Pods rigidly or thinly coriaceous, dehiscent or not. 
O P 
-valves smoo 
tT Seeds flat- -compressed ; = 2-valved, a oer 
leafiets large . C, nuga. 
+ t Seeds hardly comp ek Leaflets small, 
gest aioe leaflets unequally shies, retuse; pods 
° . . C. sappan. 
Seactees sens leaflets ovate, acute ‘pods Qvalved « C. sepiaria, 
O OP glandular-hirsute, 
+ Po hinate. Seeds shied globular. 
The branchlets, etc., more or less brown or tawny pu ubescent; sti- . 
pules C. Bonduca, 
t Pods slandular- “hirsute, at least when not fully 
ripe. oblong. 
All parts gk or less — -paberalots and prickly C. mimosoides. 
X X Pods fleshy-coriaceous, torose, with thickened su- 
tures, indehiscen 
Panicle shortly tomentose and pri Sune moet. se 5 te thio 
Panicle smooth and unarmed - C. digyna. 
* Stamens very long a slender. Seeds albuminous. 
Erect unarmed shrub, rat glabrous - C. pulcherrima. 
1. C. nuga, Ait—Soo-kowk.—A large cated prickly shrub, 
all parts quite glabrous 5 aout abruptly bipinnate, 4-24 = ‘Tong, 
with 2-5 pairs of pinnz, the rachises all prickly ; leaflets 
pairs, ovate-oblong to elliptical, very shortly and Mental we 
nate or apiculate, 1-2 in. long, entire, coriaceous, smooth, glossy 
above, beneath pale-coloured and opaque; flowers middling-sized, 
yellow (the standard often red-tinged), on 3-4 lin. long pedicels, 
orming a rather slender glabrous raceme in the axils of the leaves 
or the racemes collected in a terminal panicle ; calyx glabrous ; pods 
Bisa rent in the re all along the coast from Arracan 
down to Tenasserim and the Andamans.—Fl. May-Octob. 
2. C. sa L.; Bedd. Sylv. Madr. 90, t. 13, £. 1.—TZeing- 
nyet.—A jen ts bushy “thorny tree @5—304842), the young shoots 
puberulous ; ; leaves abruptly bipinnate, 13-24 ft. long, with 10 to 
13 pairs of pinne, the rachises thorn: a and eee og: leaflets 
