Adenanthera. decandria monogynia. 371 



The coloured wood of this tree is used for a variety of 

 economical purposes. The smooth, oval, bright scarlet 

 coloured, hard seeds are strung on a thread and worn 

 by the women round their necks in many parts of India. 

 The wood yields a dye, and is employed by the Brah- 

 mins after religious bathing in marking their foreheads; 

 for which purpose it is obtained, by rubbing the wood on 

 a wet stone. 



2. A. aculeata R- 



Arboreous, prickly. Leaves bipinnate, smooth? Legumes 

 cylindric, replete with a farinaceous substance, in which 

 the seeds are found. 



Prosopis spicigera. Willd. 2. 547. R. Corom.pl. 1. N. 63. 



Somi, Wilford in Asiat. Res, 4, p. 3G3. Sir William 

 Jones's Sami of the same vol. page 307, is very differ- 

 ent ; viz. Mimosa farnesiana, a plant he never intended 

 for Sami. 



Prosopis aculeata. Asiat. Res, 4. p. 405. 



Prosopis aculeata Kon. Mss. 



Teling. Chanee. 



This grows to the size of a tree. It is a native of most 

 parts of the coast of Coromandel, chiefly on low lands 

 at a considerable distance from the sea ; it is also found 

 in some parts of Hindoostan. It flowers during the cold 

 and beginning of the hot seasons. 



Trunk tolerably erect. Bark deeply cracked, of a dirty 

 ash colour. Branches irregular, very numerous, forming 

 a pretty large, very shady head. PricHes scattered over 

 the small branches, in some trees wanting. Leaves alter- 

 nate, generally bipinnate, from two to three inches long. 

 PinncB from one to four, when in pairs, opposite, and hav- 

 ing a gland between their insertions. Leaflets opposite, 

 from seven to ten pair, obliquely lanceolate, smooth, en- 

 tire, about half an inch long, and one-sixth broad. Sti- 

 pules none. Spikes axillary, several together, filiform,^ 



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