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somewhat longer prickly and glandular-pubescent slender pedicels, 
forming long, rather stiff, glandular-pubescent, prickly racemes in 
the axils of the leaves and terminal; calyx glandular-pubescent ; 
filaments ecg paar 3 pods unequally aed almost faleate-oblong, 
ineurved-pointed, more or less turgid, 14-23 in. long, usually 2-seeded, 
the valves hin coriaceous, rigid, brown, especially while young 
asa ; seeds oblong, not compressed, smooth, glossy dark- 
rown. 
Has.—Pegu, about Tounghoo, in shrubberies—FI. Fr. March-Apr. the — 
SS. = Lat. Arg. 
6. C. tortuosa, Roxb.—A large prickly scandent shrub, the 
young shoots rusty puberulous; leaves abruptly bipinnate, 1-1} 
ft. long, with 15 to 20 pairs of pinne, the rachises minutely rusty 
tomentose and prickly ; leaflets in 20-40 pairs, almost falcate-linear 
to oblong, epeely & rounded at the base, blunt or almost retuse, 
e 
centre, on slender about 4 in. long icels, ane simple more 
| or ae! prickly and minutely faberdons abroeseait racemes in the 
axi the leaves; calyx and corolla glabrous; filaments rusty- 
Scie: ; pods linear-oblong, torose, considerably twisted, coriaceous, 
smooth. 
Has.—Tenasserim.—Fl. Octob. 
7. C. digyna, Rottl—Soon-/et-thai.—A large scandent prickly 
shrub, the branchlets minutely puberulous or velvety ; leaves ab- 
ruptly bipinnate, 3-3 ft. long, with 5-9 pairs of pinne, the rachis 
sessile, ts up to 4 an in. long, ce. sokcc tes ranous, sg 
coloured beneath ; flowers peda oak yellow (the petals often 
reddish at the base) , on very slender about an inch long pedicels, 
forming rather long glabrous racemes in the axils of the leaves; 
ols and corolla glabrous; filaments white (when dry tawny), : 
oolly ; ovary — pods 1-2 in. long, Eletrons, torulose, 
chong -lanoedate 3-seeded, coriaceous and tardily dehiscing in 
alves; seeds oblang, not compressed, black. 
ap iesekie nag gee mee Tvrigsceres Ava and Martaban down to Tenas- 
d villages and Pts choungs in open 
sient or Faly-Oc pues Te des ties saat pte o= Dil. 
C. pulcherrima, Sw.; Brand. For. Fl. 157.—Doung-sop.— 
A i erect shrub, unarmed, all parts quite glabrous; leaves 
abruptly bipinnate, i. 1 ft. long, with 5-7 pairs of pinnae, the 
rachises unarmed and more or less pruinous; leaflets in 6-12 pairs, 
_ oblong to elliptically oblong, somewhat unequal, very shortly _ 
