Mimosa. polyandria monogynia. 549 



Teling. Nella renj^a. 



Tain. Shokram. 



A middling sized tree, a native of Coromandel. 



14. M. fructicosa. R. 



Shrubby, smooth. Leaves bipinnate; pinna i^rom eight 

 to ten pair; halets from ten to twenty pair, sub-falcate, 

 minute, a o^land towar.l the base of the common petiole. 

 Stipules minute, subulate. 



From China it has been introduced into the Botanic 

 garden at Calcutta, underthe Chinese name Tham-yeaong- 

 ton. 



15. M. stipulacea. R. 



Leaves bipinnate; pinnce from ten to twenty pair; leaf- 

 lets numerovLs, scymitar- shaped ; stipules and bractes se- 

 micordate. Panicles terminal; spikes pedicelied. globu- 

 lar; corollets monodelphous. Legume linear, leafy, from 

 six to twelve-seeded. 



Beng. Amlooki. 



A native of the mountains north of Bengal. It flowers 

 during the hot season, and is probably the largest of the 

 genus; fi)r I have seen a young (say twenty years old) tree 

 which measured thirteen feet in circumference, five feet 

 above ground ; one in the Botanic garden, planted by 

 myse'.f was forty-eight and a half inches in circumference 

 four feet above the ground, when only seven years old. 



16. M. microphylla. R. 



Sub-arboreous, Leaves bipinnate ; pinnce from ten to 

 fifteen pair ; leaflets from three to five pair, obliquely- 

 linear. Panicles terminal; corollets monodelphous. Le- 

 gumes thin, few-seeded. 



Tetooleeya, the vernacular name in Silliet where it 

 grows to the height of twelve feet. Flowering time. May 

 and June; the seed ripens in March and April. 



