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Gex. Cuar. Trees ot shrubs, prickly or unatmed: leaves aba 
ruptly bipinnated: flowers in corymbose panicles: sepals 5, equal 
‘or unequal: petals 5, stipitate, the upper one shaped -differently 
from the rest: stamens distinct, much longer than the petals: fila» 
ments hairy at the base, ascending: style very long: legume un 
armed, ‘fldt-compressed, stveral-yeeded, intercepted intérnally be« 
tween the seeds: seeds obovate, compressed. 
(1) P. porcueRRma. (Linn.) 
. Ident. W.& A. prod. 1, p. 282.—Dee.. prod, TL. p. 484.== 
Roxb. fl. Ind. IT. p. 355. 
‘Syn. Ozesalpinia pulcherrima, Swart. . 
‘Engrac. Rheede Mal. Vi. t. 1.4+-Rumph. Amb. IV. t. 20. 
Bot. Mag. XXV. t. 995. 
Srec. Cuan. An armed shrub: leaflets cbovate-oblong; retuse 
or emarginate; calyx glabrous: sepals obtuse, unequal, lower one 
vaulted ; astivation imbricated: petals with long claws, fringed: 
flowers orange, variegated with crimson, or entirely yellow. 
Peninsula, flowering all the year. This is evidently a native 
of the East Indies, common im all gardens, but never found in a 
wild state, 
(2) P.guara. ( Linn.) 
Ident. W.% A. prod. I p. 282.=-Dec. prod. IE. pr 484. 
Roxb. fi. Ind. II. p. 355. ‘ 
Syn. Czsalpinia elata, Swarte. 
Srzc. Cuan. Tree, unarnved: Ieaflets Mnear, obtuse: valyx 
more or less pubescent, particularly inside : sepals coriaceous, equal, 
lanceolate, acute+ zestivation valvular: petals fringed: ovary vil- 
lous: flowers large, yellow. 2 
Coromandel. Malabar. Gucetat. Arcot. Flowering all the 
year. — 
GENUS LXXVI. WAGATEA. 
Deeandria Monegynia. Sex: Syst: 
Deriv. From Waga, the Mahratta name for a Tiger, alluding 
probably to its prehensile character. 
Gen. Cuan. Calyx coloured, 5-cleft to the middle; tube cups 
shaped ; segments imbricated in wstivation, lower one larger, con> 
‘eave: petals 5, equal, clawed, inserted on the top’ of the calyx« 
tube: stamens inserted with the petals and of equal length with 
them, all fertile; filaments hairy at the base, alternately shorter : 
ovary stalked, tomentose, 4—6-ovuled: style filiform, of equal 
length with the filaments and petals: stigma hollow, 2-lipped, 
fimbriated, upper lip half-orbicular, lower one larger, hooded : 
