The Collaborative International Dictionary
Caesalpinia formerly Poinciana pulcherrima
Poinciana \Poin`ci*a"na\, n. [NL. Named after M. de Poinci, a governor of the French West Indies.] (Bot.) A prickly tropical shrub ( C[ae]salpinia, formerly Poinciana, pulcherrima), with bipinnate leaves, and racemes of showy orange-red flowers with long crimson filaments.
Note: The genus Poinciana is kept up for three trees of Eastern Africa, the Mascarene Islands, and India.