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seeds 2, large. Sagargota, Kachhi, Karbat. Common in hedges ; 

 most so in Guzerat, I think. 



(2) C. sepiaria. Spreading, smooth ; pinnae 6 to 10 pairs ; 

 leaflets 8 to 12 pairs, linear, oblong, obtuse; racemes large, erect; 

 calyx coloured ; pod linear, oblong, smooth, with a long abrupt 

 point, 4 to 8-seeded. Chillar. Common in the Deccan. It makes 

 an impenetrable fence. 



C. coriaria is the libi, or dividivi tree. 



2. Poinciana. Erect, unarmed trees, differing from the last in 

 having a valvate calyx of 5 equal segments. 



P. pidcherrima, the common gulmohar (gold-mohur tree) ; P. 

 regia, the royal gold-mohur : both well known. 



P. elata, sandesrd, is a much less ornamental species with white 

 flowers changing to yellow, and long dark filaments, H. calls it 

 truly wild in the W. Peninsula, but D. and Graham knew it only in 

 gardens. 



3. Cassia. Sometimes herbs ; flowers rather large, yellow ; 

 some of the stamens often imperfect or obsolete ; the petiole or 



midrib often with one or two conspicuous glands. 



C. fistula. Tree; leaflets 4 to 8 pairs, large, ovate, pointed, 

 smooth ; flowers in long drooping racemes ; pod quite cylindrical, 

 brown, smooth, one or two feet long. Bdtva, garmdla, chimkani. 

 The Ghauts and Konkan. Common throughout the forest tracts 

 of India. (Brandis.) This beautiful jungle tree is well known and 

 easily recognised by the likeness of its flowers to laburnum. 



(2) C. occidentalis. A large, smooth annual ; leaflets 3 to 5 

 pairs, ovate, lanceolate, acute ; flowers long-stalked ; pod long, thin, 

 nearly cylindric. Thorala tdkla, Kdsoda, Kasundro. Abundant in 

 waste places nearly everywhere, springing up very quickly in the 

 rains, generally with Tephrosia purpuria. It has a strong offensive 

 smell. 



(3) C. sophora. "i Closely allied to the last and with the same 



(4) C. tora. /native names, but shrubby; the pod in the 

 first more swollen, particularly towards the top, in the second very 

 long and slender, 4-sided, sharp-pointed. Very common, and both 

 found generally throughout India. H. 



(5) C. absits. A hairy plant, above a foot high ; leaflets 2 pairs, 

 unequal-sided ; flowers solitary or in a short raceme ; pod nearly 

 straight, strap -shaped, bristly. Chimar, chaksu. This is very 

 common both at Bandora and Dapoli, and I believe elsewhere, 



