Botanical Name - Poinciana

----- Poinciana, Linn . ; F. B. I. II - 260.

----- Erect unarmed trees. Leaves tripinnate. Flowers large in corymbose racemes. Calyx deeply cleft, with the disk a little above the base, the segments nearly equal, oblanceolate, valvate. Petals orbicular, clawed, spreading, margin of blade crisped. Stamens 10, free, much exserted. Ovary sub-sessile, many ovuled; style very long, filiform. Pod flat, thin, dehiscent, ligulate.