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LEGTJMINOSiE. 
[Ccesalpina . 
Pod turgid, veined, f inch broad * C. sepiaria. 
Pod flat, smooth, | inch broad * C. Sapp an. 
* C. Bonducella, Fleming, Asiat. Bes. xi. 159 (Gfuilandina Bondu- 
cella, Linn. DC. Prod., ii. 480; Gr. Bonduc, Bojer, Hort. Maur. 117), 
spread everywhere in the tropics, is often seen in Mauritius about 
plantations, and is common in many parts of Mahe and in Bodriguez. 
It is a shrubby climber, armed with very copious firm prickles, very 
large bipinnate leaves with 6-8 pinnae, each with 8-10 pairs of oblong 
membranous downy leaflets an inch long, flowers in dense peduncled 
axillary racemes with a downy rachis, squarrose persistent acute 
bracts, yellow flowers | inch long, and a short-stalked rigid oblong 
pod 2-3 in. long with the yalves armed all over with unequal straight 
prickles. Cadoque. 
* C. sepiaria , Boxb. FI. Ind. ii. 360, common in Tropical Asia, is 
often used in Mauritius for hedges, and is in Dr. Balfour’s Rodriguez 
collection from Anse Baleine. It is a shrubby climber with pilose 
branches armed with copious small hooked prickles, bipinnate leaves a 
foot long, with 6-10 pairs of stalked pinnae, 8-12-jugate small close 
oblong membranous leaflets \-l inch long, long simple peduncled 
racemes, middle-sized bright yellow flowers, densely pilose filaments 
and a hard turgid veined oblong pod 3-4 inches long with thick sutures 
and 4-8 seeds. Sappan liane. Mysore thorn. Cassie. 
* C. Sappan, Linn. ; DC. Prod. ii. 482, a native of Tropical Asia, 
is now naturalised through Mauritius. It is a shrubby climber, armed 
with few small prickles, branchlets clothed with short ferruginous hairs, 
bipinnate leaves a foot or more long with 8-12-pairs of pinnae, 10-15- 
jugate close articulated membranous leaflets square on the inner, 
rounded on the outer edge, ample panicles often as long as the leaves, 
middle-sized bright yellow flowers, densely pilose filaments and a 
woody indehiscent flattish brown oblong pod 3 inches long with a 
short recurved beak. Bois Sappin or Sappan. 
20. TBACHYLOBIUM, Hayne. 
Calyx-tube very short ; sepals 4, broad, much imbricated. Petals 
5, two lower or all reduced to mere scales. Stamens 10, free from the 
base of the ovary ; filaments filiform, pilose ; anthers uniform. Ovary 
short-stalked ; ovules few ; style filiform ; stigma minute. Pod oblong, 
large, rigid, rough, indehiscent. — Apparently one species only, clearly 
a native of Madagascar, now widely spread in Tropical Asia and 
Africa. 
1. T. verrucosum, Lam. III. t. 330 jig. 2 {as a Hymencea) . A tall 
unarmed tree, with terete branches. Leaves short-petioled, consisting 
of a single pair of oblique oblong rigidly coriaceous glabrous pointed 
leaflets, 2-3 in. long, cuneate at the base on the inner, rounded on 
the outer side. Flowers in an ample corymbose panicle, the lower 
branches of which often spring from the axils of the leaves ; branchlets 
pilose. Calyx-limb ^ in. long ; segments oblong, obtuse, tomentose on 
