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2. Shrubs or trees ; leaflets many, 7 or more pairs on each pinna. 

 3. Stamens several times as long as the petals ; pods about 2 cm wide. 



3. C. pulcherHma 

 3. Stamens not or but little longer than the petals; pods 3 to 4 cm wide. 



4. C.'.aappan 



1. C. crista L. (C. bu-nducella Flem.). Calumbibit (Tag.). 



A seandent woody vine reaching a length of - IQ m or more, the sterns^ 

 very spiny. Leaves bipinnate, oft'en nearly 1 m long, the rachis armed 

 with stout, sharp, recurved spines; pinnae usually about 10 pairs, about 

 20 cm long, with a pair of short sharp spines at the attachment of each 

 pair of leaflets. Leaflets about 10 pairs, oblong, obtuse or acute, somewhat 

 pubescent, 2 to 5 cm long. Racemes axillary, simple or panicled, dense 

 at the top. Flowers yellow, about 1 cm long. Pods 5 to -7 cm long, oblong, 

 inflated, covered with slender spines. S&eds largre, one or two, sbbglobose, 

 hard, gray, shining. 



In thickets especially near the sea, fl. Sept^an. ;. throughout the Philip- 

 pines near the seashore. Cosmopolitan in the tropics; 



2. C. nuga (L.) Ait. Sapinit (Tag;.). 



A glabrous, seandent shrub reaching a length of 10 m or more, the 

 branches armed with short, stout, hard, hooked prickles. Leaves bipin-. 

 nate, 20 to 30 cm long, the rachis armed with recurved spines beneath;' 

 pinnae 6 to 8, rather distant; leaflets 4 to 6 on each pinna, coriaceous, 

 shining, ovate to elliptic-ovate, acute, 2 to 5 cm long. Panicles terming, 

 ample, many-flowered. Flowers yellow, racemosely arranged, about 1 cm 

 in diameter. Stamens woolly at the base, slightly exserted. Pods 4 to 5 

 cm long, 2.5 to 3 cm wide, beaked, hard, indehiscent, containing a single 

 seed. (Fl. Filip. pi. 150.) 



In thickets near the seashore or within the influence of brackish iwater, 

 Pasay, fl. all the year; throughout the Philippines near the sea. Tropics 

 of the world. 



3. C. PULCHERRIMA (L.) Sw. Caballero (Sp.-Fil.). 



An erect, glabrous, sparingly Spiny shrub or small tree 1.5 to 8 m high. 

 Leaves bipinnate; pinnae 4 to 8 psiirs, '6 to 12 cm long; leaflets sessile, '2^ 

 to 11 pairs, obtuse, elliptic, 1 to 2 cm ' long. Racemes terminal, lax, the 

 pedicels long, slender. Flowers red and yellow, or yellow, about 4 cm in 

 diameter, the petals crisped, clawed; stamens long-exserted. Pods 5 to 9 

 cm long, 1.5 cm wide. (PL Filip. pi. 112.) 



Commonly cultivated for ornamental purposes, fl. all the year. A 

 native of tropical America, introduced here at an early date, and natural- 

 ized. Now everywhere in the tropics. 



4.' C. SAPPAN L. Sappang, Sibucao (Tag., Vis.). 



A small tree 3 to 5 m high, with scattered prickles. Leaves up to 50 

 cm long; pinnae about 20, opposite, 10 to 20 cm long; leaflets 20 to 30, 

 oblong to oblong-rhomboid, very oblique, attached at the lower corner, 

 apex usually retuse. Panicles often as long as the leaves, terminal. Flow- 

 ers yellow, 2 to 2.5 cm in diameter, the filaments densely woolly ijti thi 

 lower one-half. Pods oblong to oblong-obovate, hard, indehisCent, shining, 

 about 7 cm long, 3.5 to 4 cm wide, with a hard recurved beak at the upper 

 angle. (Fl. Filip. pi 121.) 



In thickets, San Pedro Macati, fl. Augl-Sept.; common and widely 

 distributed in the Philippines, but probably introduced. India and Malaya. 



