13. Eettheina.] 43. PAPIL10NACEM. 



many-ovuled. Pod linear more or less tomlose, stipitate, 

 dehiscent. 



I.E. suberosa, Roxb. Piri, K. ;, Bnrn Marar, 8. ; Pha- 

 rar, Eharw. 



A small very prickly tree with thick corky bark, leaves 

 covered with white-brown tomentum beneath, and scarlet 

 flowers in capitate racemes. 



Dry hills, common in Singbhum ; Tundi Hills (Manbhum) ; Hazari- 

 bagh 'Sitagarh hill, etc.); Damuda Ghats (between Hazaribagh and 

 Ranchi). Ms. March-May. Pr. r s. Leafless np to June. 



Innovations brown-tomentose. Trunk, branches and sometimes petioles 

 pricL ly. prickles usually straw-coloured. Terminal leaflet 6-8'' broad, 

 broader than long, lobed and sinuate with truncate or cuneate, but not 

 rounded base. Petiole 6-7'' tomentose. Racemes capitate only l£-3" long 

 (excluding the peduncle). Calyx turbinate 2-lipped- Standard 3-4-times 

 as long as broad and twice the keel. Upper st. nearly free. Pod 4-6''. 



Bark gives a fibre, and see note under £. indica. 



2. E. indica, Lamh. Marar, S. ; Pharar, Kharw. ; 

 Hadhad, Ghatw. ; Palita Mandar, Beng. 



A prickly tree with the prickles small and black. L. 

 glabroas beneath, the base of the terminal leaflet rounded. 

 Racemes much longer than in the last, often 6" excluding the 

 peduncle. Calyx split spathaceous with very oblique mouth. 

 Pod torulose stalked. 



Ranchi, planted, Wood ; Palamau, Hadett; Pokhuria and Tundi hills, 

 Campbell. 



Campbell says " common on the lower slopes of the Tundi hills. The 

 bark yields an excellent cordage fibre of a pale straw colour. The wood, 

 ash and the bark are used as dyes ; the latter and the leaves are also 

 used medicinally." Part of this may, however, refer to the last species, 

 which is not given separately in Campbell and Watt's list. 



3. E. resupinata, Roxb. 



An interesting undershrub with a perennial rootstock 

 which sends up annually racemes of bright scarlet flowers 

 without any leaves, the herbaceous shoots succeeding them. 



Pftiaraath. C. B. Clarke. Fla. AprH-Jiay. 



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