274 BOMBAY NATURAL HISTORY SOCIETY. 



but is not given by D. Everywhere in the tropics of the Old 

 World. H. 



(6) C. pumila. A low or procumbent plant, with 10 to 30 pairs 

 of leaflets, very small and unequal- sided ; flowers above the axils ; 

 pod flat, linear. Sarmal. Common generally. C. glauca. A tree 

 with a heavy sme]l, karud, is commonly cultivated. 



4. Saraca. Corolla none ; calyx coloured, long-tubed, with 

 4 unequal segments ; stamens 3 to 8, long, exserted. 



8. Indica. A small tree ; leaflets 3 to 6 pairs ; flowers in large round 

 heads, orange-coloured, changing to red bracts, &c, coloured; pod 

 broad, flat, leathery. Ashoka, jaso7idi. Konkan and Ghauts, not 

 very common. This was the tree formerly and appropriately called 

 Jonesia ashoka, the name of the illustrious Sir William Jones being 

 thus joined to the Sanscrit name. No one would from the flower 

 guess that it belonged to the Leguminosce. 



5. Tamarindus. Petals 3, the upper hooded ; stamens 3, mona- 

 delphous ; pod pulpy within. 



T. Indica. Tamarind tree. Leaflets very numerous, obtuse ; 

 flowers few together, in lax racemes ; pod thick, more or less curved. 

 Chinch, amli. H. calls it a doubtful native. The flowers of this 

 also are unlike the order. 



6. Bauhinia. Flowers showy ; petals generally clawed ; stamens 

 sometimes imperfect ; leaves simple, deeply 2-lobed. 



B. racemosa. A small crooked tree ; flowers in racemes, yellow or 

 white ; calyx spathulate, split on one side ; pod woody, thick. Apta, 

 dsandra. Common in most parts. There are two or three other 

 species, either wild or planted, and they are all easily recognised by, 

 the leaves, which are almost unique in shape, being almost round, 

 but divided into two lobes from the top, the division extending 

 sometimes nearly to the petiole, sometimes only a short way down. 



SUB-ORDER III.— MIMOSE^J. 



Leaves (in all here given) bi-pinnate ; flowers very small but 

 many together ; petals equal. 



Note. — There is a great resemblance in the flowers of the many 

 species of this sub-order, so that any one who knows any of the 

 acacias would probably recognize any of the species here given as 

 belongiug to the same family ; but it should be mentioned that the 

 tree commonly called the acacia in England, Bobenia pseudo-acacia, 



