LEGUMINOSA-CHISALPINIEZ. 73 
side of the flower. In the species nearest to that under considera- 
tion, belonging to the section Sappania,' the fruit forms a straight 
or sickle-shaped pod, with two glabrous coriaceous valves, finally 
Casalpinia Sappan. 
Fie. 46. Fid. 48. 
Flower (2). Longitudinal section of flower. 
separating to free several exalbuminous seeds, with rather long 
funicles, thick coats, and fleshy embryos. All these species are 
shrubs (usually climbing) or prickly trees 
(fig. 45), whose alternate bipinnate leaves Casalpinia Sappan. 
possess numerous little unsymmetrical 
leaflets and lateral caducous stipules. The 
flowers form axillary or terminal racemes, 
each flower axillary to its bract. This sec- 
tion only includes three species, natives of 
the warmer parts of Asia.’ 
The section Cesalpinaria® is, on the con- 
trary, American; but its species are very 
close to the last. They are unarmed, some- 
times with large leaflets, and possess an 
: 3 Fie. 47. 
oblong or lanceolate oblique or falciform Disevam, 
pod, which in C. echinata‘ is covered with 
prickles. In C. insignis’ and pulcherrima,’ the long staminal filaments 
1 DC., op.cit., 482, sect. iii. (part.).— Campecia 4 Lamx., Dict., i. 484; IIL, t. 836. 
Apans., loc, cit.—Biancea Topan., Nov. Gen., 21, 5 Poinciana insignis K., loe. cit. 
2 Roxs., Plant. Coromand., t. 16.—W1GHT, 6 Sw., Obs., 166.—GaeEty., Fruct., ii. t. 
Icon., t. 37, 892. 150.—Bot. Mag., t. 995.—Poinciana pulcher- 
3 B. H., Gen., 566, 4.—Poinciana K., Mimos., rima Auctt. 
t, 44.—Matnp., Bot. t. 151 (nec L.). 
