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on account of the confusion in nomenclature that such a course of procedure 
will entail. Delonix is here adopted for the present genus, as under no rules at 
present in force can Poinciana be retained for it. 
27. CAESALPINIA Linn. 
Pods armed with abundant wiry prickles; petals narrow; scandent spiny shrubs 
(§ GUILANDINA). 
Leaves with large foliaceous stipules; leaflets mostly less than 2.5 cm in length; 
pods 5 to 7 cm long 1. G. crista 
Leaves without stipules; leaflets 3 to 5 cm long; pods about 10 cm long. 
2. C. glabra 
Pods unarmed; petals broad. 
Leaflets coriaceous, few, 2 or 3 pairs on each pinna, 2 to 6 cm long, acute; pods 
short, the seeds solitary, rarely 2 (§ nugabia).. 3. C. nuga 
Leaflets membranaceous or subcoriaceous, many, 8 or more pairs on each pinna, 
mostly less than 2 cm long, rounded; pods with from 5 to 8 seeds. 
Petals distinctly clawed; stamens long-exserted, several times as long, as the 
petals; pods about 2 cm wide (§ caesalpinaeia ) 4. G. pulcherrima 
Petals not or but slightly clawed ; stamens short, not or but slightly exserted 
(§ SAPPANIA). 
An erect tree ; stipules none ; pods 3 to 4 cm wide ; with a stout spreading 
beak at the upper angle of the obtuse apex 5. G. sappan 
Scandent spiny shrubs; pods oblong or linear-oblong, less than 3 cm in 
width; stipules present, deciduous 6. G. sepiaria 
1. Caesalpinia crista Linn. Sp. PI. (1753) 380, (excl. syn. FI. Zeyl. 157, pro 
parte, Herm. zeyl. 12), non ed. 2 (1762) 544, nec aliorum; Urban Symb. Antill. 2 
(1900) 269. 
Guilandina bonduc Linn. 1. C.-381, non ed. 2 (1762) 545. 
Guilandina bonducella Linn. 1. c. ed. 2 (1762) 545; Blanco FI. Filip. (1837) 
343, ed. 2 (1845) 239, ed. 3, 2: 81. 
Caesalpinia bonducella Flem. As. Res. 11 (1810) 159; Baker in Hook. f. FI. 
Brit. Ind. 2 (1878) 254; F.-Vill. Nov. App. (1880) 69; Prain ex King in Journ. 
As. Soc. Beng. 66= (1897) 226. 
Guilandina crista Small FI. Southeast. U. S. (1903) 591; W. F. Wight ex 
Safford in Contr. U. S. Nat. Herb. 9 (1905) 288. 
Luzon, Province of Union, Elmer 5723, Fenix 11: Province of Pangasinan, 
Bur. Sci. 4969 Ramos: Province of Bataan, Williams 332, Elmer 7002, Merrill 
3284 ■ Mindobo, For. Bur. 5535 Merritt. Cebu, Barrow 8. Mindanao, District 
of Davao, DeVore & Hoover 155, Copeland 345. 
Native names: Calambibit (widely used) ; dauer (Union); bangbang (Cebu); 
dalagdag (Mindoro) ; dalugdug ex Blanco. 
Widely distributed in the Philippines near the' seashore ; cosmopolitan in the 
tropics of the world. 
The synonymy of this species is rather complicated, but it has been cleared up 
by Urban. 30 The first citation given by Linnaeus is to his Flora Zevlanica no. 
157, but this is only in part (Pluk. aim. 4. t. 2. f. 2) referable to the present 
species, the reference to Herm. zeyl. 12 being an error, for Trimen 31 calls attention 
to the fact' that the specimen in Hermann’s Herbarium is Caesalpinia nuga ( L. ) 
Ait., and not G. crista. Guilandina bonduc and G. bonducella Linn., as cited above, 
are certainly identical with C. crista Linn. 
30 Symb. Antill. 2 (1900) 269-271. 
31 FI. Ceyl. 2 (1894) 99. 
