4. Sasaca.] 42. C^SAZPINIACEJB. [5. Tamabindtts 



4. Saraca, L. 



1. S. indica, %• Husangid-ba, K. • Asoka, Beng, 



A strikingly beautiful tree when in flower with dense 

 corymbs 3-4" broad of a brilliant orange-scarlet, each flower 

 with 3-8 exserted stamens. The flowers are well set off by 

 the dark-green pari-pinnate leaves of 6-12 large acuminate 

 leaflets attaining 9* by 2|". 



Indigenous in the valleys of Singbhum along watercourses, esp. in the 

 raviDes of Porahat. There used to be some fine specimens near Kendbai 

 village in^ the Leda forest. Fls. March-April. Fr. Sept. and seeda 

 germinate in Dec. Evergreen. The new leaves are red and drooping. 

 Rarely exceeding 30 ft. with a low dense crown. L. sub-sessile. Lfit's* 

 oblong or oblong-lanceolate acute (or obtuse, F.BL). Sepals scarlet £-£". 

 Petals 0. Ovary many-ovuled stipitate. Pod 4-lu v by 1%-%', 4-8 seeded. 



" When this tree is in full blossom,' I do not think the whole vegetable 

 kingdom affords a more beautiful object," Rostb. 



5. Tamarindus, L. 



1. T. Indica, I. Jojo, K. ; Jojos S. ; Tetar, Kharw. , 

 Imli, Amli, H. The Tamarind, 



A very large and very handsome tree with abruptly 

 pinnate leaves with 10-20 prs. of small close oblong obtuse or 

 retuse leaflets, about |" long, and small red and yellow flowers 

 in lax racemes, only the three upper petals and three stamens 

 fully developed. 



Commonly planted in the villages and sometimes found in the forest 

 on old deserted village sites, but it suffers much from fires. Naturalized 

 among granite rocks near Kuru. Fls. April-June also in October.* Fr. 

 Dec-April. Evergreen. 



Pod curved fleshy and fibrous, with a brittle thin epicarp. 



Gleditflchia sinensis, Lamk.> is a tree commonly planted on rail- 

 way platforms. It has the trunks and branches armed with copiously 

 branched thorns, 1-2-pinnat* leaves, and small greenish flowers in 

 dense spikes. 



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