370 
(1). P. Roxsuncun. (G. Don, } 
‘Hent, Don's Mill II. p. 397. 
Syn. Mimosa biglobosa, Roxb. ft. Ind. IY. p. 551. 
Srec, Cuar. Tree: pinnz 20-24 pair: leaflets very numerous, 
linear, obtuse, somewhat falcate, with glands between the last 3-5 
pair of pins: spikes terminal: heads of flowers cup-shaped, ver~ 
million colour,; legumes flat, turgid at the. seeds, 12-20-seeded,. 
Assam, Silhet. Flowering in December. 
GENUS LXXITE GUILANDINA. 
Deeandria Monogynia. Ser: Syst: 
Deriv. Called after Guilandinus or Wieland, a Prussian tra 
veller. 
Gen. Cxar. Trees or shrubs with hooked prickles on the stem, 
- and petioles: leaves abruptly bipinnated : flawers dispused im. race~ 
mose spikes: bracts elongated :. sepals 5, combined: at the base into. 
a short urceolate tube: petals 5, sessile :, laments villous: at the 
base: legume ovate, compressed, somewhat ventricose, 2-valved, 
4-2-seeded, covered with straight prickles: seeds bony, shining, 
nearly globose, 
—. &® G, Boxnuc. (Linn. ) 
Ident. W. & A. prod. I. p. 280.—Deec. prod. EE. p. 480. 
Syn. G. Bondugcella, Einn.—Cesalpinia, Flem. in As. Regs. 
AL. p. 159.—Roxb. f. Ind. TE. p. 357. : 
Engrav. Pluk. t. 2. £, 2.=Rheede Mal. II. t. 22.-Rumph. 
Amb. VY. t. 48, 49. f, 1. 
Spec. Car. Scandent, shrub: leaflets oyal on ovate, 3-8 pair, 
more or less pubescent, with 1-2 smal] recurved: prickles: between, 
them on the under side: flowers largish, sulphur. 
Coromandel: Bombay. Travancore. Bengal. Assam. Flow- 
ering in the.rainy season. One of the seeds of! this plant pounded 
into a paste with 3 or 4 peppercorgs and taken from three to. four 
times a day in a decoction of Chirayta, is, an excellent febrifuge, 
The seeds are intensely bitter. and powerfully tonic. The plank 
is well adapted for: making hedges, . 
GENUS LXXIv. CSALPINEA. 
Diadelphia Deeandria, Sex: Syst: 
Deriy. In honor of Andreas Czsalpinus, Chief Physician to 
Pope Clement VIII., the first, writer on Systematic Botany, 
