Pomaria
(named after Pomar, physician to Philip III. of Spain). ORD. Leguminosae. A genus comprising five or six species of greenhouse, unarmed trees or shrubs, more or less black-dotted, mostly extra-tropical South American, and now included, by Bentham and Hooker, under Caesalpinia. Calyx segments entire or at length loosely glandulose-fimbriate. Pods oblong or lanceolate, oblique or falcate, glandulose. Leaflets usually small, coriaceous. For culture of P. glandulosa, the only species introduced, see Caesalpinia.
P. glandulosa (glandular). fl. yellow, disposed in axillary racemes; petals five, shortly unguiculate. May. l. abruptly bipinnate; stipules pinnatifid. h. 2ft. New Spain, 1826. The branches, calyx, and corolla, are glandular.