CAESALPINIA (in honour of Andreas Caesalpinus, a celebrated Italian botanist, 1519--1603). Brasiletto. ORD. Leguminosoe. An ornamental genus of stove evergreen trees or shrubs, not much grown, on account of the space required and the time the species take to flower. Flowers yellow or red, produced in racemes, having a top-shaped calyx, divided at the end into five parts, the lowest larger than the others; petals five, unequal-stalked, upper one shortest; stamens ten. A mixture of loam and leaf mould suits them best. Cuttings are somewhat difficult to root, but sometimes will succeed if taken off from the mother plant in a growing state and planted in sand, with a hand glass placed over them, in heat. CAESALPINIA alternifolia (alternate-leaved). fl. orange, clustered. l. alternate, very elegant, compound. Central America, 1868. CAESALPINIA brasiliensis (Brazilian). Brazil Wood. fl. orange; racemes rather panicled. l. with seven to nine pairs of pinnae, each pinna bearing about fifteen or sixteen pairs of oval-oblong, obtuse, glabrous leaflets. Brazil, 1739. Plant unarmed. CAESALPINIA crista (crest). A synonym of CAESALPINIA japonica. CAESALPINIA japonica (Japanese). fl. whitish, terminal, racemose, drooping; peduncles alternate, filiform, horizontal, one-flowered. May and June. l. pinnate; leaflets sub-sessile, oblong, very obtuse, entire, equilateral, glabrous. Stem 6ft. high, arborescent. Japan. (G. M. 21st July, 1888, p. 445.) SYN. CAESALPINIA crista. CAESALPINIA Sappan (Sappan). fl. yellow, panicled. l. with ten to twelve pairs of pinnae, each pinna bearing ten to twelve pairs of unequalsided, obliquely oval-oblong leaflets, which are emarginate at the apex. h. 40ft. Tropical Asia, 1773. This tree furnishes the Sappan-wood of commerce. CAESALPINIA sepiaria (hedge). fl. yellow. April. l. compound; pinnae with about ten pairs of pinnules. h. 60ft. India, 1857. SYN. Biancea scandens.