406 LEGUMINOSE. [ Casalpinia. 
falcate-oblong, acuminate, about 2 in. long, 2-valved, the valves 
rather flat, smooth ; seeds compressed. 
Has.—Frequent in Tenasserim ; Pegu, above Rangoon.—Fl. Aug. 
a —A red dye-wood called sappan-wood, an important article of 
comm 
3. C.s sepiaria, R Roxb.; Brand. For. Fl. 156.—Soo-hyin-b0.—A 
large thorny scandent shrub, the branchlets rusty or tawny puberu- 
of pinne, the rachis prickly and minutely puberulous; leaflets in 
8 to 10 pairs, oblong to linear-oblong, almost sessile, blunt, 4 to 2 
in. long, slightly appressed pubescent on both sides, in a dried state 
canescent beneath ; flowers showy, yellow, on stiff about an inch long 
tawny or greyish velvety pedicels, forming a tawny or greyish 
velvety somewhat prickly raceme in the axils of the leaves and at 
the end of the branchlets; calyx petaloid, yellow, velvety; petals 
miontely puberulous outside ; filaments white-woolly ; pods oblong, 
e, terminating in a long lateral stylose acumen, rather com- 
pressed, with somewhat thickened borders, transversely nerved, 
about 2 in. long, the valves firmly coriaceous, brown, glabrous; 
seeds 4-8, obovate-oblong, brown and variegated, not compressed. 
Has.—Burma (no locality). 
4. C. Bonduca, Roxb. ; Brand. For. Fl. 156.—Kadlein,—A large 
scandent spite shrub, all parts more or less thinly brown or fawny 
unfre in the leaf- hed Pro. d Masine 
ban down t to nanan ee ry th £ Katlaan ning oh fom mee 
ee mimosoides, Lamk.—A large prickly scandent shrub, the 
= rae a glandular-puberulous and prickly ; leaves abruptly 
= ate, 1 to 3 ft. long, with 12-24 pairs of pinnz, the rachis 
