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4. Albizzia. Large unarmed trees ; flowers in round heads ; 

 stamens indefinite, very long, united at the base ; pod long, thin, 

 strap-shaped. 



(1) A. lebhck. Flowers white, very fragrant ; heads long, stalked 

 or irregularly racemed ; pod nearly a foot long, smooth, straw- 

 coloured. Siras, farari. Common in the Konkan and elsewdiere. 



(2) A. stipulata. Stipules large, acute, reddish ; heads of flowers 

 in panicles, the long brush-like stamens pink in the upper half ; 

 pod reddish brown, smooth. Lallai, shembar. This very beautiful 

 flat-topped tree of the Ghauts and S. Konkan grows in perfection 

 at Matheran. It is as well to mention here the only tree belonging 

 to another order, which is likely to be taken for one of the Legu- 

 minosce. The order is Moringece, which contains only one genus 

 and 3 species, but botanists have found the greatest difficulty in 

 fixing the position it should occupy. Outwardly, however, it much 

 resembles Leguminosce. 



Moringa. Trees with soft wood ; leaves alternate ; petals 5, 

 unequal ; stamens 5 perfect and 5 imperfect ; capsule pod-like. 



31. pterygosperma. The horse-radish tree. Leaves verj^ large, 

 twice or thrice pinnate ; leaflets very small ; calyx as well as petals 

 white ; capsule a foot long, slender, 3-augled. Sheogd, shehla. 

 Generally cultivated. M. concanensis is very like this, but the leaves 

 and panicles larger ; the flowers yellowish, red-streaked and fragrant. 

 Sainjita, mun. Wild in the Konkan. 



The above list will be found, I think, to include all the leguminous 

 plants that are common or very noticeable iu the Bombay Presi- 

 dency, and a large proportion of them are very common. And if all 

 orders of plants could be as easily identified as the Leg nminosce t 

 we might expect Botany to become a much more popular study. 

 But I must repeat what I said in my first paper, that if any one 

 begins by getting up the common plants of a few of the larg*est 

 orders, he will by the time he knows them have got his eye so well 

 in, and know so much of botanical terms and principles, and 

 probably also will be so much interested in the work of identification, 

 that he will find no great difficulty in proceeding to the less easy 

 orders. 



