. Indian trees : an account of trees, shrubs, woody climbers, bamboos, and palms indigenous or commonly cultivated in the British Indian Empire. Trees. Ccesalpinia] XLV. LEaUMINOS^ 247 Indigenous and naturalized throughout India and Burma, ascending to 5,000 ft. in Jaunsar. Fl. February-June. An excellent hedge plant. Ceylon, Malay Archipelago. 7. C. mimosoides, Lam. Western Peninsula, Burma. Densel}^ clothed with prickles, bristles and glandular hairs, pimi'i 10-30, leaflets 10-20 pair. Pod falcate, turgid, 1-2 in. long. 8. C. pulcherrima, Sw.—Syn. Poinciana pidclier- rhna^ Linn. A large, gla
. Indian trees : an account of trees, shrubs, woody climbers, bamboos, and palms indigenous or commonly cultivated in the British Indian Empire. Trees. Ccesalpinia] XLV. LEaUMINOS^ 247 Indigenous and naturalized throughout India and Burma, ascending to 5,000 ft. in Jaunsar. Fl. February-June. An excellent hedge plant. Ceylon, Malay Archipelago. 7. C. mimosoides, Lam. Western Peninsula, Burma. Densel}^ clothed with prickles, bristles and glandular hairs, pimi'i 10-30, leaflets 10-20 pair. Pod falcate, turgid, 1-2 in. long. 8. C. pulcherrima, Sw.—Syn. Poinciana pidclier- rhna^ Linn. A large, glabrous shrub, armed with a few scattered prickles. Fl. large, orange or bright j^ellow, pedicels more than twice the length of fl. Filaments nearly glabrous, twice the length of petals. Pods nearly straight, linear oblong, flat. Commonly planted and villages throughout India and Burma. Fl. nearly at all seasons. Home unknown, has been found, apparently wild, by T. H. Aplin, in December 1887, ii;i the Tapel Choung valley, Shan States, 1,700-5,000 ft. C. Pods unarmed, rather fleshy, indehiscent, the ^\«-l^^salpinia , 1 i 1 • 1 T ' sepiaria, Koxb. Fr. A. sutures much thickened. ±^ ? 2 9. C. digyna, Rottler; Kurz F. Fl. i. 407. Vern. Sii-let-thi, Biirm. A large scandent, sparingly prickly shrub. Branches glabrous or slightly downy, pinncfi 5-9 pair. Leaflets obtuse, pale beneath, 8-10 pair, {-.^ in. long, n. in simple axillary racemes, 8-12 in. long ; pedicels slender, 1 in. long; petals orbicular yellow, the upper streaked with red; fllaments densely woolly in the lower half. Pod oblong, turgid, l|-2 in. long. Seeds 2-4. Assam, Bengal, Chittagong, Burma, Upper and Lower. Sambalpur, C. P. (Griffith), Western Peninsula. Fl. July-October.—Ceylon, Malay Peninsula and Archiioelago. The pods are supposed to be as valuable for tanning as those of C. coriaria, Willdenow, an unarmed tree of the West Indies and Central America, the Divi-divi of commerce. 10. C. microph
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