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Shrubs with Alternate Stipulate Compound Leaves, 



Pod Bearing, Leaflets Many. 



Petals Similar. 



Cassia Sopliera, 



Kasunda. 

 Leguminos^. 

 F. B. I, ii. 262. 

 The Plains. 



CassalPinia pulcher- 

 rima, 



shortly stalked clusters, forming branching terminal 

 racemes, bracts \ in. long, ovate, long pointed, white 

 tinged with pink, soon falling off, calyx 5-fid to the 

 base, lobes blunt, petals 5, broad, nearly equal 

 stamens 10, 3 upper without anthers, 2 lateral pairs 

 with small anthers, 3 lower longer and with larger 

 anthers, anthers brown, style incurved , pod 4-5 by 

 5 in., curved, cylindrical with slight contractions, 

 flattened, seeds 15-30, pale brown. A common weed 

 originally introduced from America, the seeds are 

 used by negroes as a substitute for coffee. 



like the last species, but larger with larger leaves 

 and more leaflets, petals scarcely veined, pods not 

 flattened, nor cylindrical with slight contractions, seeds 

 dark brown. 



see Trees, Alternate, Stipulate, Compound. 



Flowers in spikes or heads. 



Diclir ostac hy s 

 cinerea, 



Vertuli. 

 Legumjnos^. 

 F. B. I.ii. 288. 

 Delhi (Dutbie). 



large ; branches rigid thorny, branchlets many, 

 velvety terminating in spines ; leaves bipinnate, 1-2 

 ins. long, pinna3 16-20, stalked-glands at the base 

 of each pair, leaflets 24-30, minute, strap-shaped, 

 sessile, leathery yL-i in. long ; flowers minute, yellow 

 on spikes, shortly stalked, axillary, flowers at the 

 base of the spike with white, red or purple stami- 



nodes, I in. long ; pod 2-3 by ^- 

 dry, smooth. 



in., 6-10-seeded. 



Mimosa rubicauli.' 



ShiaJi kanta, ral. 



Leguminos^. 



F. B. I.ii. 291. 



The Plains to 4,000 ft. 



Valleys below Simla 



(Co]Iett\ 

 Rawalpindi. 

 Valleys below Murree. 



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large, branches reddish when young, straggling 

 slender, giooved, grey downy, armed with many 

 small, hooked spines ; leaves bipinnate, 6-9 ins., mid- 

 rib prickly, stipules awl-shaped, pinnfB 8-12, 1-2 ins. 

 long, bristle-like gland between each pair, leaflets 

 20-24, g^ in. long, linear-oblong ' with a recurved rigid 

 point ; flowers minute, reddish, turning to white in 

 heads, |-i in. broad, on short stalks in the axils of 



