CALLIANDRA CYNOMETROIDES. (Nat. order Leguminosse ; Sub order Mimosese ; Tribe Ingese.) 



CALLIANDRA, Benih.— GEN. CHAR. Flowera polygamous or herniathrodite. Calyx campanulate 3-5-6-tootlied or rarely deeply parted, 

 eoi'ol infundibuliform or campanulate, petals 3-5-6 valvate and joined up to or above the middle. Stamens numerous (10-100) connate into a tube at the 

 base, long exserted, anthera minute, glandularly-hairy or glabrous, the pollen sticking together in 2-4 masses in each cell, ovary sessile or subsessile, 

 many-ovuled, style filiform, stigma terminal small capitate, legume linear straight or scarcely falcate, often narrowed at the base compressed flat, the 

 margins thickened and subterete 2-valved, the valves dehiscing elastically from the apes to the base and not twisting and without pulp inside. Seed 

 obovate or sub orbicular compressed, funicle short. Trees or shrubs, armed or unarmed, leaves bipinnate or rarely pinnate, flowers red or white on axillary 

 solitary peduncles or in terminal racemes. Benth. in Hook. Journ. of Bot, ii. 138. Anneslea, Salisb. Barod. Lond, t. 64, not Wall. 



CALLIANDRA CYNOMETROIDES. (Bedd.) A middling sized glabrous tree, trunk and boughs generally thorny afc 

 least when young, leaves abruptly pinnate, petioles 3-8 lines long, leaflets sessile 1 pair with a hollow gland between them at the apex 

 of the petiole on the upperside and a stipel on the under side, elliptic often very unequal sided subacute or obtusely pointed at the 

 apex, 3-4 inches long by 1-1| inches broad, penni veined and prominently reticulated, from membranaceous to sub-coriajeous, stipules 

 when present thorny short straight, peduncles axillary solitary 1-1. J inches long with 5-12 sessile flowers at the apex, calyx very small 

 3-toothed, petals 3 adnate for more than -§rds of their length, stamens numerous much exserted joined into a tube at the base and with 

 the corol more or less persistent in fruit, stigma small orbicular, legume flat coriaceous reticulated 4-5 inches long by about 8 lines broad, 

 the margins much thickened and terete, the apex with a prominent hook, seeds 5-6 brown rather shining, rhomboid in shape, funicle 

 conspicuous. 



This interesting tree has only lately been discovered on the Tinnevelly and Travancore mountains 25000 feet elevation (dense moist 

 forests about the Rosemallay Cofee Estate not far from Courtallum), in flower andripe fruit in November ; the limber appears to be very good as 

 in most of the family. The genus is a large one, but all Ike species are American, except one other (the C. umbrosa, Wall) which is found in 

 North India. The species here described differs from all in having pinnate instead of bipinnate leaves, and in its flowers being trimerous. Seed 

 has been supplied to the Bangalore, Calcutta, Madras and Ceylon Botanical Gardens, 



Analysis. 



1. Portion of a branch shewing the peduncles in bud. 



2. The thorny stipules. 



3. Apex of the petiole, front side shewing the hollow gland between tbe leaflets, 



4. Back view of the apex of the petiole, shewing ths stipel which is deciduous. 



5. A flower bud. 



6. A full flower shewing the'uumerous much exserted stamens, 



7. Corol opened, petals 3, joined for more than frds of their length. 



8. Stamen tube opened, filaments connate into a tube at the base, ovary on a very short stipe. 



9. Anther, front view. 



10. Anther, back view. 



11. Ovary cut vertically shewing 5 ovules. 



12. Portion of a legume after it has burst, shewing 2 of the rhomboid seeds attached by their fuuicles. 



13. A seed cut through vertically. (Drawn from living specimens.) 



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