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2. Cacsalpinia bijuga. Indian savin Tree. 
Glabrous prickly or subunarmed, leaflets duplicatc- 
bij ugate more or less obcordate, racemes panicled, 
flowers shortly pedicelled. 
Senna spuria arborea spinosa, Sloatie, II. t. 181. f. 2. 3. — 
Acacia gloriosa Jamaicensis, l J lum. Aim. — Poinciana bijuga, 
Jacq. Am. 123. — (kesalpinia bijuga, Swartz , Ohs. 1G6. 
HAI3. Common in dry savannahs. 
FL. October — December. 
A tree 15-20 feet in height, erect : branches round, glabrous : 
prickles axillary, solitary, or in pairs one on each side of the 
base of the petiole, or sometimes awanting. Pinna? 2-paired ; 
each pinna of two pair of leaflets : leaflets shortly petiolulated, 
somewhat difformed and unerjuilateral, narrowing towards the 
base, broad and rounded and occasionally emarginate at the 
apex, and hence obovate and more or less obcordate, an inch 
in length : common petiole about 2 inches in length. Flowers 
showy, yellow, numerous, shortly pedicelled, arranged in a 
terminal panicled raceme. Calycine sepals 5, concrete at the 
base to form a subpersistent cupula, unequal ; four of them 
oblong, obtuse, petaloid, yellow ; the fifth longer, concave, 
greenish. Petals 5, rather longer than the sepals, unequal ; 4 
of them shortly clawed, with the claws hirsute with white 
hairs, oblong ; the fifth broad and hirsute at the base, hooded, 
obtuse, yellow spotted with orange. Stamens equal in length 
to the petals ; filaments hirsute for the greater part of their 
length : anthers ovate. Ovary linear, hispid : style erect, 
hirsute : stigma simple. Legume an inch and a half in length, 
and half an inch in breadth, glabrous, thickened along the su- 
tures, 3-seeded, ventricose at the situation of the seeds, so 
that when the pod is ripe they rattle. Seeds subquadrate, 
compressed, smooth, shining, black. 
All parts of this tree give out, when bruised, a strong bal- 
samic scent. The pods have some resemblance to those of 
C. coriaria, and might, I have no doubt, be employed for simi- 
lar useful purposes. The tree, when in blossom, has a very 
beautiful appearance on the dry parched savannahs, from the 
bright yellow of the flowers contrasting with the deep green 
of the leaves. 
3. # Caesalpinia Crista. Oval-leaved Brasiletto. 
Prickly very glabrous, pinnae 1-3-paired, leaflets 
obovate generally obcordate, racemes simple, pedicels 
3 times longer than the flower, petals shorter than 
the calyx. 
Ca?salpinia polyphylla aculeis horrida, Plum. Gen . 26. t. 68. 
— C. crista, Linn. Sp. 544. 
