"302 L. LEGTJMiNOS^. (J.G.Baker.) [^Calliandra. 



Pod J ft. by 2 in., glabrous, 6-8-seeded, rather turgid, the sutures neither lobed nor 

 thickened. 



130. CAZiIiZANDRA, Benth. 



Shrubs or trees. Leaves bipinnate, with, small or large leaflets. Flowers in 

 globose heads, polygamous, 5-merous. Calyx campanulate, toothed. Corolla 

 ftinnel-shaped, deeply 5-cleft. Stamens indefinite, monadelphous at the base, 

 ■filajnents filiform much exserted ; anthers minute, not gland-crested. Ovary 

 «talked, many-ovtiled ; style filiform, stigma minute capitate. Pod strapr 

 shaped, slightly falcate, flat, rigidly coriaceous, the valves dehiscing with 

 elasticity, bordered by much-thickened sutures, continuous within, narrowed 

 gradually to a short stelk. — Distetb. Species 80, all the rest Tropical American. 



L C. Griffitliii, Benth. in Trans. lAnn. See. xxz. 537; spines minute, 

 Tbracte linear-lanceolate. 



Khasia Mts., Griffith. 



Branches slender, terete, glabrous. General and partial petioles very short, gland- 

 less. Leaves as in C. wmhrosa ; upper pair of leaflets eonnivent, oblong-lanceolate, 

 oblique, acuminate, 2-3 in. long, rigidly subcoriaceons, glabrous, strongly veined, lower 

 nearly sessile, \-\ in. Heads dense, on slender glabrous ascending peduncles 1-2 in. 

 .long, from the axils of developed leaves. Calyx ^ in., funnel-shaped ; teeth deltoid, 

 CoroUa funnel-shaped, glabrous, | in. ; teeth lanceolate. Pod unknown. 



2. C umbrosa, Benth. in Gen. Plant, i. 597 ; spines conspicuous, bracts 

 minute deltoid. Inga umbrosa. Wall. PI. Asiat. Bar. t. 124; Cat. 5273. 

 Albizzia umbrosa, Benth. in Sook. Land. Joum. Bot. iii. 86. 



SitHBT, Khasia Mts., CHrrrAGONG, and Penakg. 



A tree, with slender glabrous branchlets, sometimes furnished with small erecto- 

 •patent stipular spines. Leaves short ; pinnae 2, with a pair of large sessile oblique 

 •oblong acute rigidly subcoriaceons leaflets at the apex, and an odd much smaller one 

 below on the outer side, all with a gland on the rachis at the base. Flowers sessile, 

 in small dense globose heads on short ascending peduncles. CoroUa ^ in., yellow, 

 inodorous. Pod 6-9 in. by |-1 in. broad, smooth, finely veined, the valves with 

 elevated rounded thick raised edges. 



131. FXTKECOZiOBZUm, Mart. 



Erect trees. Leaves bipumate. Flotcers in globose heads, usually herma- 

 phrodite and pentamerous. Calyx campanulate or fimnel-shapedj shortly 

 ■toothed. CoroUa fimnel-shaped, the petals united below the middle. Stamens 

 monadelphous, much exserted; anthers not gland-crested. Ovary sessile or 

 stalked, many-ovxiled ; style filiform, stigma minute capitate. Pod strap- 

 s^haped, falcate or circinate, usually dehiscent and much twisted in a late stage, 

 -the sutures not thickened. — Disieib. Species about 100, cosmopolitan in the 

 Tropics, mostly American, only one African. 



SsEUXS I. ITng'uiscati. Stipules spinose. 



1. P. dolce, Benth. in Sook. Lond. Joum. 1844, 199 ; pinna and leaflets 

 •2,' heads in long narrow terminal panicles, flowers sessile, pod coriaceous. 



Bedd. Fl. Sylv.t 188. Mimosa dulcis, Boxb. Cor. PI. t. 99 ; Sort. Beng. 40; 

 . J7. /n<f. ii. 556. Inga dulcis, WiUd.; DC. Prodr. ii. 436; WdU. Cat. 5282; 



W. 8f A. Prodr. 268 ; Wight Ic. t. 198. 



