Botanical Name - Caesalpinia

----- Caesalpinia, Linn. ; F. B. I., II - 254.

----- Trees, shrubs or woody climbers armed with prickles Leaves large, abruptly pinnate, rarely unifoliolate. Flowers showy, yellow, in copious axillary racemes. Calyx of 5 more or less connate sepals, often lined in their lower portion by a disk which bears petals and stamens. Petals 5 or less, imbricate in bud, usually orbicular with a distinct claw, the uppermost smaller than the others. Stamens ten or fewer, free or more or less connate ; anthers versatile. Ovary sessile or sub-sessile, few-ovuled ; style filiform sometimes clubbed at the top. Pod oblong or ligulate, armed or smooth.