Adenanthera. DECANDRIA MONOGYNIA. 371 
The coloured wood of this tree is used for a variety of | 
economical purposes. ‘The smooth, oval, bright scarlet 
coloured, hard seeds are strung ona thread and worn 
by the women round their necks in many parts of India, 
The wood yields a dye, and is employed by the Brah- 
mins after religious bathing in marking their foreheads; 
for which purpose it is obtained, by rubbing the wood on 
a wet stone. 
2. A. aculeata. R- 
Arboreous, prickly. Leaves bipinnate, smooth, Legumes 
cylindric, replete with a farinaceous substance, in whish 
_the seeds are found, 
Prosopis spicigera. Willd. 2: 547. R, Corom. pl. 1. N. 63. 
Somi. Wilford in Asiat. Res. 4. p. 363. Sir William 
Jones’s Sami of the same vol. page 307, is very differ- 
ent; viz. Mimosa farnesiana, a plant he never intended 
for Sami. 
Prosopis aculeata. Asiat. Res, 4. p. 405. 
Prosopis aculeata Kon. Mss. 
Teling. Chanee. 
This grows to the size ofa tree. It is a native of most 
Parts of the coast of Coromandel, chiefly on low lands 
at a considerable distance from the sea; it is also found 
in some parts of Hindoostan. It flowers apying. the cold 
and beginning of the hot seasons. 
Trunk tolerably erect. Bark deeply crack of a sits 
ash colour. Branches irregular, very numerous, forming 
a pretty large, very shady head. Prickles scattered over 
the small branches, in some trees wanting. Leaves alter- 
nate, generally bipinnate, from two to three inches long. 
_ Pinne from one to four, when in pairs, opposite, andhay- 
ing a gland between their insertions. Leaflets opposite, 
from seven to ten pair, obliquely lanceolate, smooth, en-— 
tire, about half. an inch long, and one-sixth broad,  Sti- 
| Pules none, Spikes axillary, several topethe i 
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