Pongamia.^ 
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1. P. glabra, Vent.; DC. Prod. ii. 416. A large robust climber 
with glabrous branches and leaves. Leaflets 5-7, the side ones 
opposite, subcoriaceous, 2-4 in. long, oblong or acute, pointed, stalked. 
Flowers in lax simple racemes 3-6 in. long on the end of the branches 
or from the axils ; pedicels 2-4-nate, spreading, silky, with a pair of 
minute bracteoles at the middle. Calyx ^ in. long. Corolla reddish, 
silky, 3-4 times as long as the calyx. Pod 1J-2 in. long, \ in. 
thick, sublignose, glabrous, with a short decurved point. Robinia 
mitis, Linn. Graledupa indica, Lam. 
Seychelles, not uncommon in the shore-marshes of Mahe, Horne , 482 ! Common 
in Tropical Asia ; not African. 
* Hoematoxylon campeachianum , Linn. ; DC. Prod. ii. 485 ; Hayne 
Arzn. ix. t. 44, the tree that yields Logwood, a native of Central 
America, is half-wild in Rodriguez round Mathurin and in Mauritius 
on the lower part of the Pouce range, and used for hedges. It is a 
much-branched tree 15-20 feet high with a smooth bark, abruptly 
pinnate leaves with 3-4 pairs of small obovate obtuse rigid veined 
leaflets, fragrant flowers in copious dense axillary racemes, calyx with 
a short cup and 5 subequal Ungulate lobes, 5 bright yellow small 
equal oblanceolate petals, 10 free stamens with filaments hairy at the 
base and a flat thin nearly sessile membranous pod narrowed to both 
ends splitting not by the sutures but the middle of the valves. Bois de 
Campeche. 
* Parkinsonia aculeata , Linn. ; DC. Prod. ii. 485, a native of 
America, now spread everywhere in the tropics, is often seen in 
Mauritius in hedges. It is a glabrous shrub, 6-10 feet high, armed 
with sharp woody spines which represent the primary axils of a 
bipinnate leaf, and bear 2-6 crowded pinnse, which are often a foot 
long, with a flattened rachis and very numerous minute obovate 
leaflets. The flowers are in lax racemes, with a membranous calyx 
cleft nearly to the base into obtuse valvate lobes, large yellow obovate- 
unguiculate subequal petals, 10 free stamens and a 1-6-seeded dry 
moniliform pod, which finally splits open. Genet epineux. 
* C-3SSALPIT7IA, Linn. 
Calyx deeply cleft, with 5 imbricated lobes, the lowest the largest, 
cucullate. Petals spreading, obovate-unguiculate, the uppermost the 
smallest of the five. Stamens 10, free, declinate ; anthers oblong, 
uniform, versatile. Ovary nearly sessile, with several ovules; style 
filiform ; stigma capitate. Pod few-seeded, variable, oblong, dehiscent 
or indehiscent. — Robust woody prickly climbers with very large 
bipinnate leaves, abruptly pinnate pinnse and copious flowers in 
axillary racemes. Distrib. Round the world in the tropics. 
Species 40 
Pod dehiscing, the valves armed with dense prickles . . * C. Bonducella. 
Pod indehiscent, the valves unarmed. 
