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(4) C. mrmosomes. (Lam.) 
Ident. W.& A. prod. I. p. 281.Dee. prod. IL. p, 482. 
Syn. C. Simora, Roxb. jt. Ind. IL. p. 359. 
Engrav, Wight’s Icon. t. 292.-Rheede Mal. Vi. t. 8. 
Spec. Cuan. Climbing; stem and branches armed with straight 
prickles: young parts coloured, prickly and covered with glandulan 
hairs or bristles: pinne 12-30 pair: leaflets 8-16 ‘pair, linear-ob- 
‘long, obtuse, glabrous; common petiole usually with 3 prickles at 
the insertion of each pair of pinnz, 2 of them on the under side re- 
‘curved, one on the upper bent..upwards: stipules sword-shaped : 
racemes simple, leaf-opposed and terminal: legumes short, oblique- 
ly truncated, cuspidate, turgid, somewhat hairy, 2-seeded: flowers 
sulphur. 
Mysore. Malabar and Travancore. Mahim woods, Bombay. 
Flowerivg nearly the whole year. 
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(5) C, szviaria, (Rosb.) 
Ident. W. & A. prod, I. p. 282.—Roxb. fi. Ind. IT. p. 360, 
Syn. Reichardia decapetala, Roth. Dec. prod. 11. p. 484. 
Engrav. Wight's Icon. t. 37. 
Spec. Cuar. Climbing: -branches and petioles armed with short 
strong sharp recurved prickles: pinnae 6-10 pair: leaflets 8-12 
pir, linear-oblong, obtuse, slightly villous when young: petioles 
pubescent : stipules broad, semisagittate: racemes axillary, solitary : 
calyx coloured: segments ‘soon reflexed: legumes linear-oblong, 
glabrous, with a long cuspidate point, 4—8-seeded: flowers bright~ 
sulphur. , 
Mysore. Cunnawady. Flowering nearly all the year. 
(6) C. Nuea, (Ait. ) 
Ident. Don’s Mill. TL. p. 430.—Dec. prod, IL. p. 481. 
-Syn. Guilandina nuga, Linn. 
Engrav. Rumph. Amb. V. t. 50. 
Spec. Cuan. Shrub: pinne 3—4 pair: leaflets 2-3 pair, ovate, 
acute ; common petiole prickly beneath: panicles racemose : legume 
flat, short, with an incurved mucro at the apex: flowers yellow. 
South Mahratta country. 
GENUS LXXV. POINCIANA. 
Deeandria Monogynia. Ser: Sys?: 
Deriv. Called after Mons. de Ponci, formerly Governor of the 
Antilles. 
