34. Acbus.] 43. PAPILIONACE&. [25. Pongami* 



or short axillary branchlets. Calyx campanulate with very 

 short teeth. Standard ovate short clawed slightly adnate to 

 the staminal tube. Stamens 9 tube slit above. Ovary 

 sub-sessile, ovules several. Pod flat or turgid. 



1. A. precatorius, L. Kawet, S. ; Karjain, h.narw. ; 

 Rati (The seeds) H. ; Karjani, Oraon ?, M. ; Indian 

 Liquorice, Crabs-eyes (The seeds). 



An elegent twining slender shrub with leaves 2-3 £" long 

 of 10-20 pairs of leaflets £-§" by J~|*, small reddish or 

 white flowers £" in crowded racemes J -3" long. Pods about 

 1^'' long turgid. Seeds polished round scarlet or white with 

 a black eye. 



Hedges and waste ground on bushes, in all the districts, frequent. 

 Fls. SepL-Oct. Ft Nov.-Dec. Ripe seed also found in May. Deciduous. 



Very pretty in ripe fruit when the pods open and disclose the 



il poi 

 said to be used for poisoning cattle by hypodermic injeotion. They «e 



scarlet seeds. The seeds contain a powerful poisonous alkaloid and are 

 said to be used for poisoning cattle by hypodermic injeotion. They « 

 used for nervous affections and externally in skin diseases, alopecia, etc. 



25. Poiigamia, Vent. 



A tree with impari-pinnate leaves and opposite exstipulate 

 lflts. Fls. pink in fascicles on the rachis of axillary racemes. 

 Calyx campanulate, nearly truncate. Cor. exserted. Keel 

 obtuse with petals cohering at tip. St. monadelphous, or 

 upper fil. free at the base. Ovary sub-sessile 2-ovuled. Pod 

 flattened woody, indehiscent, oblong with a short curved 

 point. 



1. P. glabra, Vent. Karanj, K.; Kuruinj, 8. 



A small or mod.-sized tree with leaves 8- 14" long with 

 5-7 shining leaflets 3-8" long and lilac flowers |", 2-4-nate 

 with pedicels £-■§* *in fruit. Calyx brown. Pod 1-seeded 

 1J-2" long. 



Frequently self-sown and apparently wild along nalas in Singbhum. 

 Seldom, if ever, found wild in Manbhum, Gamp. Very commonly 

 planted throughout Chota Nagpur. Fls. May- June. Fr. Dec.'Jany. Dec. 

 May and renews leaves at the end of the same month. 



