Oassia.] L. leguminosj;. (J. G. Baker,) 267 



DOUBTFUL SPECIES. 



C. JAVANIOA, ii»».; DC. Frodr. ii. 490, Wall. Cat. 5309 (0; Bacillus, Gaertn.; 

 Moxb. FL Ind. ii. 337. Wt. loones, t. 252) differs from C. nodosa by its smaller and 

 more ottuse leaflets. It is sometimes cultivated within our limits and is 'wild in the 

 Malay isles. A plant gathered by Griffith near Prome is either a variety with leaflets 

 densely pubescent beneath or a new species. The inflorescence of both this and the 

 Malay ^lant corresponds with that of G, nodosa. 



104. CYZTOnXETRA, Linn. 



Erect unarmed trees. Leaves with few coriaceous odd-pinnate leaflets. 

 Flowers copious, minute, in axillary corymbs or racemes. Cal\,x with a very 

 short tube and subbasal disk ; divisions 4-5, oblong, imbricated. Petals 5, 

 oblanceolate, equal, not exserted. Stamens 10, or in C. polyandra indefinite, 

 filaments erect, free, filiform, exserted ; anthers small, oblong, versatile, dehis- 

 cing longitudinally. Ovary sessile or short-stalked, 2-ovuIed ; style filiform, 

 stigma capitate. Pod turgid, oblique-oblong, with very thick indehiscent 

 usually rugose tough somewhat fleshy valves. Seed exalbuminous, central, 

 fiUing up lite cavity. — Disieib. Species 20, spread everywhere in the tropics. 



Stjbgen. 1. Eucynometra. Stamens 10. 



1. C. ramiflora, Linn. ; DC. Prodr. ii. 609 ; leaflets 2-4, racemes 

 usually solitary corymbose axillary from the branchlets, pod turgid rugose, 

 W. k -^^ Prodr. 293 ; Da/a. ^ Gibs. Bomh. Fl. 83 ; Bedd. Fl. Sylv. t. 315. 0. 

 cauliflora, Wall. Cat. 5816, ex parte. 



Wbsteen Peninsula and Ceylon. — Distkib. Malay isles, Philippines, N. Aus- 

 tralia. 



Leaflets 1 -jugate and 2-jugate mixed or often all 1 -jugate, subsessile, if 2-jugate 

 (var. heterophylla, Thwaites) the upper much the largest, oblong, subacute very 

 oblique, 3-6 in. long ; "petiole J— 1 J in. Racemes few-flowered, corymbose, sessile 

 from the axils of the leaves of the branchlets, with the primary axis not produced^ 

 rarely geminate ; outer scales ovate, ^-^ in. ; pedicels \-^ in. Sepals ^ in. Puds 

 turgid, very rugose, 4-1 in. long, subsessile. 



Vae. mimosoides. Wall. Cat. 5817, sp. ; leaflets all bijugate not so unequal as in 

 the bijugate form of the type much smaller 1-3 in. long more obtuse and thicker, 

 flowers and pod smaller, the latter pointed and very deeply wrinkled. G. bijugaj 

 Miq^. Flor. Ind. Bat. i. 78. — Western Peninsula, Pegu, Tenasserim. 



2. C travancorica, Bedd. Fl. Sylv. t. 316 ; leaflets 2, flowers in sessile 

 corymbs from the branchlets, pod flat smooth. 



South Teavancoee and in the Caenatio near Tinnevelly, alt. 2-4000 ft., Heddomei 

 Petioles i— i in. ; leaflets always unijugHte, oblique oblong-lanceolate, subacute, 

 glabrous, 2-3 in. long. Eaeemes solitary, copious, rounded, few-flowered, with the 

 central axis not at all produced ; bracts | in., deltoid ; pedicels erecto-patent, ^-^ in. 

 Sepals i in., flnally reflexed. Filaments twice the length of the sepals. Pod flat, 

 smooth, firm, semicircular, sessile, 1-lj- in. long. f 



3. C. insequifolia, A. Gray Bat. U.S. Expl. Expedit. 473 ; leaflets 

 4-6, flowers in very dense oblong sessile solitary or geminate racemes from the 

 branchlets, pod flat smooth. 



Malacca, Maingay.—Disvws. Philippines, Cuming, 1297- 

 ■ Leaflets subcoriaceous, rigid, glabrous, oblique, obovate-oblong, subequal, ii our 

 specimens 2-3 in. long. Flowers in very dense oblong sessile cone-like racemes, 1^-2 

 in. long, the central axis produced ; outer bracts round-cordate, obtuse, ^ in. ; pediceU 



