67 SALIX TETRASPERMA. 
Germ long-pedicel’d. 
Style length of the capsule. 
Stigmas two, spreading. 
Capsule heart-shape, opening from the apex, one-cell’d, four- 
seeded. | 
Seeds oblong, involved in much fine white cotton, which does not 
adhere to them, but is inserted with them into the bottom of 
the capsule. | 
This is the only species of Salix I have found in India. It is a 
middle sized tree, a native of the banks of rivulets and moist places 
far among the mountains. Flowers in the cold season. 
‘98. GOUANIA TILLAFOLIA. 
Lamarck encyclop. 3. p.5. Vahl symb. 3. p. 101. 
Penky-tiga of the Telingas. 
Tendrils simple, small, generally from the lower part of the racemes. 
Leaves alternate, petioled, hearted, slightly saw’d or notch’d, 
smooth ; two to four inches long. 
Racemes terminal, and from the exterior axills, long, filiform. 
Flowers numerous, small. 
Bractes minute. 
Perianth above, five-parted, as in Rhamnus. 
Corol as in Rhamnus. 
Nectary : the saucer-form part is here augmented by five emarginated 
spreading horns. 
Filaments inserted into the margin of the nectary, alternate with its 
horns. 
Germ below, three-sided. 
Style three-cleft. 
Capsule dry, triangular, three-cell’d, three-valved. 
Seeds one in each cell. 
Is a large climbing woody shrub, a native of the Circar mountains. 
99. MIMOSA DULCIS. 
Trunk ill shaped. 
Branches numerous, somewhat twiggy; young shoots winding, and 
often reflected. 
Thorns stipulary, suberect, sharp, but not long. 
Leaves alternate, twice-double. Leaflets obliquely oblong, smooth, 
pointed, about an inch long. Peliole and Petiolets end in a sharp 
Bark ash-colour’d, pretty smooth. 
point. 
Panicles terminal, thin, oblong, composed of diverging racemes of 
short pedicel’d, small, globular, heads of white corollets. 
Filaments numerous, united below into a tube. 
Legume swell’d, particularly at the seeds, twisted like a screw, a 
little downy, the valves themselves thin, almost membrana- 
ceous; when ripe, they open naturally, and expose to view 
MIMOSA DULCIS. 68 
much rose-colour’d, firm, lobated, fleshy pulp, in which the 
black shining seeds are hid. 
This is not a native of the coast of Coromandel, probably not of 
India; it has been introduced from the Philippine Islands, for the 
sake of the pulp which fills the legumes. In our gardens it grows 
quickly toa tree: arich sandy soil suits it best. Flowering time 
the cold season. 
I cannot as yet say any thing about the wood of this tree ; its 
bark is astringent, like that of the rest. 
The fleshy pulp of the legumes is reckoned wholesome; it is 
sweet, but insipid, and dryish; however, as the tree grows easily 
and very quickly, I conceive it well worth being reared for fences, 
instead of many less useful bushes and trees. The fruit would assist 
the poor in times of scarcity, and the gum, wood, and bark may 
also turn to account. ; 
The Spaniards at Manilla, I am informed, rear many of the trees 
for the sake of the pulp of the legumes, which they call Sappan- 
fruit. 
100. MIMOSA XYLOCARPA. 
Conda-Tanghervo of the Telingas. 
Trunk straight. Bark brown, pretty smooth. 
Branches numerous. 
Leaves scattered about the extremities of the branchlets, they con- 
sist of one pair of feathers upon a common petiole. Leaflets 
opposite, without a terminal odd one, from two to four pair ; 
and with a single one below the pairs upon the outside; they 
are entire, oblong, smooth on both sides; the exterior pair are 
largest, and they are about five inches long, and two broad ; 
those below are little more than half that size. 
Petiole common, short, with a large brown gland between the fea- 
thers ; partial petiole round, with a similar gland between 
each pair of leaflets. 
Stipules lanced. 
Peduncles axillary, two to four, two to three inches long, each end- 
ing in a globular head of fragrant florets. 
Filaments ten, distinct, inserted into the bottom of the tube of the 
corol. 
Legume broad-sickle-form, exceedingly hard and heavy, outside co- 
vered with brown farina, about six inches long, and three broad. 
Seeds about ten, brown, smooth, each about as largeasa kidney bean. 
This is one of the largest species of the whole Genus that I am 
acquainted with. So far as I know, it is a native of the mountainous 
parts of the Circars only ; casts its leaves during the cold season ; 
flowering time the beginning of the hot season. 
The wood of the tree is of a chocolate-colour towards the centre ; 
the natives esteem it much, and use it for a great many purposes, 
where hard, durable, tough timber is required: for plough-heads 
it is particularly in request; the Telingas always employing the 
hardest and most durable wood, as they seldom use iron in their 
ploughs. 
ERRATA.—Preface. Page 2, lines 12 and 18, for 1766, read 1776. 
From page 1, to page 49, passim, for Bract, read Bracte. 
Page 3, line 19, for there, read where—line 4 from bottom, for Hight, read slight. 
Page 25, line 35; page 58, line 33; page 63, line 19, for /engthways, read lengthwise. 
