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pore and Moradabad, whence it follows the course of commerce down the Ganges, 
and meets that from Nepal, so that both may be exported from Calcutta. Another 
astringent product of a plant of this tribe is procurable in the bazars of India, and this, 
is remarkable, as only known by the old name akakia ; it is described by Persian 
authors, as it was by Dioscorides and Avicenna, as being the expressed juice of the 
fruit of the tree which yields gum-arabic, Sumugh arabee. 
The denseness and tenacity of the timber afforded by some of the species is consider- 
able, that of A. arabica and farnesiana being used for making wheels and tent-pegs ; that 
of other species attains a large size, as of A. kalkora and A. speciosa; the latter is dark- 
coloured and close-enough grained for making furniture. A. elata, xylocarpa, Sundra, odo- 
ratissima, stipulacea, and cinerea, all yield it of good quality. 
Some of the species of this tribe are remarkable for the seeds being covered with 
edible fleshy pulp, as Acacia Keringa and Inga dulcis, in India; also, I. faeculifera 
and Mimosa fagifolia in America; while the saponaceous legumes of Acacia concinna 
form a considerable article of commerce, and the seeds of Entada Pursatha, called gela, 
are used by the natives for washing the hair. The bark of some species, as of A. ferru- 
~ ginea and leucophea, added to jaggery water, is distilled as an intoxicating liquor. The 
seeds of Parkia Africana (Inga biglobosa, Palis. de Beauv.) well known as produced 
by the doura-tree, are roasted in Africa as coffee ; so, in India, Dr. Roxburgh’s Mimosa 
pedunculata, which he approximated to his I. biglobosa, thinking the latter identical 
with the African species, is eaten by the Malays, who are fond of the seeds, as well 
as of the mealy matter which surrounds them; the former tasting like garlic. | 
The Czsaprnex, or LomenTACEA, distinguished by Mr. Brown as comprehending 
“all the genera having perigynous stamina, a corplla whose estivation is not valvular, 
and which, though generally irregular, is never papilionaceous. To these characters 
may be.added the straight embryo, in which they agree with J/Zimosee, but differ from 
all the Papilionacea, except Arachis and Cercis.” 
The Cesalpinee, like the Mimosee, chiefly inhabit the warm parts, both of the new 
and of the old world, with a like extension to both the north and the south, but with an 
addition in the former direction of one or two species in the south of Europe. Several 
genera are peculiar to either the old or the new world, and a few are common to both. 
Of the former, those which exist in or are confined to India, are Humboldtia, Hard- 
wickia, Jonesia, Cynometra, and Meszoneurum ; but none of these extend beyond the 
southern parts. Amherstia nobilis, the most splendid of the many magnificent objects 
of the vegetable kingdom, was found by Mr. Crawford and Dr.Wallich growing close to 
a kind of monastery, near Martaban, about 17° of N. latitude. Some splendid dried spe- 
cimens have since been sent to Dr. Lindley by Mr. Griffith from the woods near Pogoon. 
The genera Guilandina, Cesalpinia, Poinciana, Tamarindus, Cassia, Bauhinia, and 
Outea, are common to India and America, and all, with the exception of the last, which 
is only found in the Calcutta Garden (Lin. Trans. vy. 12), occur in every part of India. 
Of these, such species as Tamarindus indica, Cassia fistula, Poinciana pulcherrima, 
Guilandina 
