Mysorethorn

Biancaea sepiaria (Roxb.) Todaro, Hort. Bot. Panorm. 4. 1876
Caesalpinia sepiaria Roxb. Hort. Beng. 32. 1814. Biancaea scandens Todaro. Nuovi Gen. 22. 1860.
A much-branched, very prickly, vine-like shrub 3 m. high, or less, the young twigs and foliage puberulent. Petiole stout, tapering into the rachis, which is very slender above; stipules half-sagittate, early deciduous; leaves 1-5 dm. long; pinnae 4-10 pairs, short-stalked; leaflets 7-12 pairs, thin, oblong, rather dark green above, pale green beneath, 8-20 mm. long, rounded or refuse at the apex, obtuse at the base, very short-stalked; racemes axillary and terminal, puberulent, usually many-flowered; flowers deflexed at anthesis; pedicels 1.5-3 cm. long; calyx about 1.5 cm. long, puberulent; petals suborbicular, about 1.5 cm. broad; filaments about as long as the petals; filaments densely woolly below; legume oblong, compressed, glabrous, unarmed, 5-8 cm. long, 2-2.5 cm. wide, abruptly long-beaked, 6-8-seeded; seeds oblong-ovoid, black and variegated, nearly 1 cm. long, 5-6 mm. thick.
Type locality: Bengal, India.
Distribution: Jamaica; Cuba to Grenada. Native of the East Indies.