196 ILLUSTRATIONS OF INDIAN BOTANY. 
The genus Cynometra affords the fruit known and much esteemed in the eastern Islands 
under the name of Nam-nam (C. cauliflora ) but which is scarcely known in this country, | 
where, though described as a native plant, { suspect it is introduced. It is growing in the spice 
gardens of Courtallum but I have never met with it wild. ‘Those I saw are introduced, 
C. ramifiora is certainly a native of Ceylon, from which I have been favoured with fine speci- 
mens by Colonel Walker, it seems equally a native of Malabar as it is figured by Rheede. 
"he last genus of this sub-order to which J shall allude is Bauhinia, a genus named in” 
honor of the brothers John and Caspar Bauhin, two celebrated Botanists of the last century, 
and considered by Linneus most appropriately dedicated to them on account of the two lobed” 
B. racemosa { parvaflora Roxb.) a rather common shrub or small tree in I ndia, yields a thick” 
bark of which matchlock-men make their matches. 
A. (B. racemosa, Vahl. and Roxb. not Lam.) 
for various purposes, plates, package, &c. ‘he 
8 eaten raw, when ripe the taste is like that of cashew-nut nguina is another” 
extensive creeper remarkable for having its stem and branches compressed, that is several inches 
by the natives of Silhet to be a charm against” 
Here I conclude my very imperfect sketch of this sub 
- containing 
many both valuable and curions plaints! order remarkable for con g 
Sub-order Mimosgar. ree 
' ie 
This is a large sub-order, consisting principally of tropic i few excep- 
tions, confined to the warmer regions mig a ae the in ost onl esdnag eg ra 
The species are either trees, shrubs or herbaceous plants 
or prickles. The leaves are alternate, abruptly pinnate, ‘ 
opposite, often remarkably sensitive, shrinkin 
canst faanally hypogynous ‘ e calyx, sometimes distinct, — 
nein aes > gstivation valvular or rarely imbricative. Stamens inserted — 
» OF several times as many as the pet wey 
along the lobes of. the cotyledons : cotyledons ; 
osperm usually flexuose or twisted. 
ae Wiis 4 ly 
This sub-order is very dis eding ones, especially in the character of 
its flowers, which are here regular, usual}. 
the Hedysareae, in Inga and Adenanth ‘ 
ne Aveaysareae, in Inga at era they are long and as 
wo hg evant the want of which character, combined with ia eer oF Nareswend§ 
= huge emt a bg: of referring ‘ylocarpa to that genus 
ak rena ~ ae _ oe : speci characters, in most they are linear 
proporti the species of hisenaey Aes? cmp contracted between the seed. A large 
Indian species ( Desmanthus natans\ ic mos He a 
PANS bs aaah 63 enus 3) 18 almost ¢ antly — 
implies, or growing on the muddy ee Sy wate Ate ie 
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