Ccesalpinia] XLV. LEaUMINOS^ 247 



Indigenous and naturalized throughout India and Burma, 

 ascending to 5,000 ft. in Jaunsar. Fl. February-June. An 

 excellent hedge plant. Ceylon, Malay Archipelago. 7. C. 

 mimosoides, Lam. Western Peninsula, Burma. Densel}^ 

 clothed with prickles, bristles and glandular hairs, pimi'i 

 10-30, leaflets 10-20 pair. Pod falcate, turgid, 1-2 in. long. 



8. C. pulcherrima, Sw.— Syn. Poinciana pidclier- 

 rhna^ Linn. 



A large, glabrous shrub, armed with a few scattered 

 prickles. Fl. large, orange or bright j^ellow, pedicels 

 more than twice the length of fl. Filaments nearly 

 glabrous, twice the length of petals. Pods nearly 

 straight, linear oblong, flat. 



Commonly planted in. gardens and villages throughout India 

 and Burma. Fl. nearly at all seasons. Home unknown, has 

 been found, apparently wild, by T. H. Aplin, in December 1887, 

 ii;i the Tapel Choung valley, Shan States, 1,700-5,000 ft. 



C. Pods unarmed, rather fleshy, indehiscent, the ^\«- l^O.-C^salpinia 

 , 1 i 1 • 1 T ' sepiaria, Koxb. Fr. A. 



sutures much thickened. ±^ ? 2 



9. C. digyna, Rottler ; Kurz F. Fl. i. 407. Vern. Sii-let-thi, Biirm. 



A large scandent, sparingly prickly shrub. Branches glabrous or slightly 

 downy, pinncfi 5-9 pair. Leaflets obtuse, pale beneath, 8-10 pair, {-.^ in. long, 

 n. in simple axillary racemes, 8-12 in. long ; pedicels slender, 1 in. long; petals 

 orbicular yellow, the upper streaked with red ; fllaments densely woolly in the 

 lower half. Pod oblong, turgid, l|-2 in. long. Seeds 2-4. 



Assam, Bengal, Chittagong, Burma, Upper and Lower. Sambalpur, C. P. (Griffith), 

 Western Peninsula. Fl. July-October.— Ceylon, Malay Peninsula and Archiioelago. 

 The pods are supposed to be as valuable for tanning as those of C. coriaria, Willdenow, 

 an unarmed tree of the West Indies and Central America, the Divi-divi of commerce. 

 10. C. microphylla, Ham. ; Prain in Journ. As. Soc. Beng., vol. 66 (1898), 471. (C. cijidido- 

 carpa, Fl. Brit. Ind. ii. 471.) Sikkim, Western Bhutan, Assam, Silhet. Pinnse 10-12 

 pair. Leaflets 14-18 pair, rigid, glossy above, obliquely linear, ^-| in. long. Fl. in large 

 compound panicles. Calyx glabrous. Pod 2-3 by 1 in. 11. C. tortuosa, Eoxb. Tenas- 

 serim, Malay Peninsula. Differs chiefly by smaller leaflets and flowers in simple 

 racemes. - 



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2. PELTOPHORUM, Yogel ; Fl. Brit. Ind. ii. 257. 



Species 7, tropics of both hemispheres. 



P. ferrugineum, Benth. ; Trimen Handb. Ceylon, t. 32. 



A large unarmed evergreen tree, branchlets rachis and midrib beneath ferru- 

 ginous-pubescent. Leaflets opposite, obliquely-oblong, obtuse, |-| in. long. 

 Fl. large, yellow, on erect rusty-tomentose panicles. Petals with long ferru- 

 ginous hairs on back, filaments with tufts of silky hair at base, stigma peltate. 

 Pod flat indehiscent, 2-4 in. long, a firm broad wing along each suture. 



Andamans. Fl. May. Ceylon, Malay Peninsula and Archipelago, North Australia. 



3. MEZONEURUM, Desf.; Fl. Brit. Ind. ii. 257. 



Large prickly climbers. Fl. yellow, zygomorphic. Calyx oblique, segments 

 strongly imbricate, the lowest much larger than the others and hooded in bud. 

 Stamens 10, free, anthers uniform. Pod quite flat, with a broad papery wing 

 along the dorsal suture. Seeds few. Species 11, tropics of the old world. 



A. Pods 1 -seeded. Leaflets and calyx glabrous. 



1. M. cucullatum, W. et A. Vern. JBiskoprah, Oudh. 



A large straggling climber, stem covered with strong hooked prickles on 



