54 MERRILL. 
v ' 2. Caesalpinia glabra (Mill.) comb. nov. 
Guilandina glabra Mill. Gard. Diet. ed. 8. (1768) no. 3. 
Caesalpinia bonduc Roxb. Hort. Beng. (1814) 32, FI. Ind. 2 (1832) 362; 
Baker in FI. Brit. Ind. 2 (1878) 255; F.-Vill. Nov. App. (1880) 69; Urban Symb. 
Antill. 2 (1900) 272, non Guilandina bonduc Linn. Sp. PI. (1753) 381. 
Guilandina bonduc Linn. Sp. PI. ed. 2 (1762) 545, pro parte, non ed. 1 (1753) 
381. 
Caesalpinia crista Perk. Frag. FI. Philip. (1904) 15, non Linn. 
Guilandina bonduc var. majus DC. Prodr. 2 (1825) 480. 
Guilandina major Small FI. Southeast. U. S. (1903) 591. 
Palawan, Merrill 81$, Bur. Sci. 228 Bermejos. Mindanao, Lake Lanao, Mrs. 
Clemens 7 55, 863, 1182: District of Davao, Copeland s. n. One of the specimens 
from Lake Lanao (Clemens 863) has comparatively few and weak spines on the 
pod, but I do not consider it specifically distinct from the more common form 
with stout spines. 
Cosmopolitan in the tropics. 
I consider the specific name bonduc to be invalid in the genus, as the species 
as originally described under Guilandina is a synonym of C. crista Linn. What is 
apparently the earliest valid name is here adopted. 
3. Caesalpinia nuga (Linn.) Ait. Hor-t. Kdw. ed. 2, 3 (1811) 32; Baker in 
Hook. f. FI. Brit. Ind. 2 (1878) 255; F.-Vill. Nov. App. (1880) 69; Naves in 
Blanco FI. Filip, ed. 3, pi. 150. 
Guilandina nuga Linn. Sp. PI. ed. 2 (1762) 546; Blanco FI. Filip. (1837) 344, 
ed. 2 (1845) 240, ed. 3, 2: 81. 
Caesalpinia laevigata Perr. Mem. Linn. Soc. Paris 3 (1824) 104. 
Luzon, Province of Cagayan, Bur. Sci. 71)18 Ramos: Province of Pangasinan, 
Bur. Sci. 4879 Ramos: Province of Zambales, Hallier, s. n., For. Bur. 5909 
Curran: Province of Bulacan, McGregor 96: Manila, Marave 68: Province of 
Bataan, For. Bur. 2272 Meyer, For. Bur. 1952, 2492 Borden, Elmer 7009, Whitford 
1264 ■ Province of Tayabas, Whitford 84 2, in part: Province of Camarines, Ahern 
252. Polillo, Bur. Sci. 9139 Robinson. Lubang, Merrill 962. Mindoro, Merrill 
1294, 1225, 3341, For. Bur. 5517 Merritt. Palawan, Bur. Sci. 610 Foxworthy. 
Panay, Copelcmd 108. Negros, For. Bur. 7330 Everett. Mindanao, Province 
of Surigao, Bolster 367: District of Davao, Williams 2740. 
Native names : Sapnit, sapinit, or sagmit, in most provinces ; sometimes camat- 
cabag ; in Mindoro sometimes calauimt; bacaig (Polillo). 
Widely distributed in the Philippines along the seashore; throughout the 
tropics of the world in littoral districts. 
4. Caesalpinia pulcherrima (Linn.) Sw. Obs. (1791) 166; Baker in Hook, 
f. FI. Brit. Ind. 2 (1878) 255; F.-Vill. Nov. App. (1880) 69; Naves in Blanco 
FI. Filip, ed. 3, pi. 112. 
Poinciana pulcherrima Linn.* Sp. PI. (1753) 380; Blanco FI. Filip. (1837) 
333, ed. 2 (1845) 232, ed. 3, 2: 69; W. F. Wight ex Safford in Contr. U. S. Nat. 
Herb. 9 (1905) 358. 
Amost universally known in the Philippines by the Spanish name “caballero,” 
rarely as “ maravilla according to Blanco sometimes “flores” or “rosas,” all 
names of Spanish origin. Undoubtedly originating in tropical America; now 
widely distributed in the tropics of the world. It is extensively cultivated, and 
also spontaneous in the Philippines, and is represented by numerous specimens 
from all parts of the Archipelago, from the Batanes Islands to Palawan and 
southern Mindanao. 
