Occasional in some of the islands Seed and the root-bark are used to treat intermittent fevers. Seeds are useful to disperse swelling, restrain haemorrhage and keep offinfectious diseases. to
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Seed and the root-bark are used to treat intermittent fevers. Seeds are useful to disperse swelling, restrain haemorrhage and keep offinfectious diseases. to
Woody climbing shrubs; stems armed with recurved prickles. Leaves bipinnate, to 50 cm long; pinnae 4-5 pairs; × leaflets 5-8 pairs per pinna, 2-5 0.8-2.2 cm, ovate or elliptic-oblong, base rounded, apex obtuse, mucronate; petiole to 15 cm to long; stipules 0.8-1.7 cm long, foliaceous, lobed or pinnate. Racemes supra-axillary or terminal, many-flowered, to 15 cm long. Flowers to 1.5 cm across; pedicels 2-5 × mm long; bracts 6-8 1-2 mm, lanceolate, caducous. Calyx lobes 5, separate almost to the base, 5-8 mm long, oblong or obovate, pubescent. Petals yellow as long as the sepals, oblanceolate, reflexed; upper one smaller. Stamens 10; filaments villous. × Ovules 2. Pods 4.5-9 3.5-4.5 cm, elliptic, NARAHDISAS .N/OAF L., turgid, beaked, covered with straight, puberulent spines; seeds 1 or 2, 1-1.5 cm across, subglobose, greyish-white, glossy.