\I.\1II. LhGLMINO.S.K, 413 



usuiilly coloivtl. Flowers in terniiiial and leaf-opposed racemes 12- 

 30 in. long ; rhachis densely clothed with straiL,'ht prickles and ininuto 

 hairs rising from hard glandular buses ; pedicels ^'-l in. long, covered 

 with minute liairs from hard glandular bases, intermixed with a few 

 slender eglindular bristles. Calyx reddish, ^ in. long; tube clothed 

 with minute hairs fascicled from glandular bases; lobes obtuse, douny 

 and gland-dotted. Corolla ^-1 in. across, yellow, dotted with black 

 glands, rilaments flattened at the base, the lower half densely ciliate 

 with white woolly hairs. Pods l|-2 in. long, oblong-obovoid, moro 

 turgid than in any other species, ^ in. thick, narrowed to the base, 

 obliquely truncate and w itli a short recurved beak at the apex, clothed 

 with minute bristles, finallv glabrescent, the sutures not thickened. 

 Seeds 2. Fl. 13. 1. v. 2, p.' 2oG ; Grab. Cat. p. 60 & p. 248 ; Dalz. & 

 (libs. p. 80: AVight, Icon. t. 392; Talb. Trees, Bomb, ed, 2, p. 141 ; 

 "Woodr. ill Journ. Bomb. Nat. v. 11 (1898j p. 420. — Flowers: Oct.- 

 Jan. 



KoNKAN : Sfoc/,-sl; Wari country, plentiful, Dahell ^- Gibson; Mahim woods 

 (YiomhAy), Graham. S. M. Cocntky: CasLlerock, Woodroiv; JjAa.mm, liitchie,'2.b'6\\ 

 K:imgliat, Iii/rfiie, 'Jo'd I Kanaka: iiioi&t forests, Talbot; Kala naddi, /?iYcAiV, 253 ! 

 — J)iSTiui!. India (Birnia, W. Peninsula). 



Co'Haljnnia ^)»Zo7(^/-r/j?irt, Swartz, Obs. p. 160. A glabrous shrub or 

 small tree unarmed or with a few weak prickles, culLi\ated in gardens 

 in the Bombay Presidency and generally throughout India. Leaves 

 4-6 in. long; pinnae 6-8 pairs. Leaflets 8-12 pairs. Corolla Ig in. 

 across, yellow or red. Filaments very long, bright red. Pods 2-3 by 

 ^ in., narrower and thinner than those of any of the genus. — Its native 

 country is uncertain. It is not apparently wild in S.E. Asia, and may 

 have come from America. Fl. B. I. v. 2, p. 255 ; Woodr. in Journ. 

 Bomb. Nat. v. ]1 (1898) p. 426 ; Watt, Dic^. Econ. Prod. v. 2, p. 10. 

 Poinciana pideherrinia^ Linn. Sp. PI. p. 380 ; Grab. Cat. p. 61 ; Dalz. & 

 Gibs. 8uppl. p. 27. — Flowers more or less throughout the year. Vern. 



CLfsaljiinia coruiria, Willd. Tlie American Sionach. A small tree, 

 native of S. America, which has been introduced and is rapidly becoming 

 established in Southirn India. It is cultivated in Poona, Dharwar, 

 Belgaum, and Kauara. The sinuous pods contain a large quantity oi" 

 tannin, but owing to the oil contained in the seeds discoloring the 

 leather during the tanning process, it is necessary that these should be 

 removed b-ifore exportation. Woodr. in Journ. Bomb. Nat. v. 11 (1898) 

 p. 426 ; Watt, Diet. Econ. Prod. v. 2. p. 6.— Flowers : Oct. A^Eitx. 

 Lihl-dihi. For a full account of the tanning power of the pods &c. 

 consult Watt, Diet. Econ. Prod. I.e. 



61. MEZONEURUM, Desf. 



Scandent usually prickly shrubs (rarely trees). Leaves abruptly 2- 

 pinnate ; stipules small or inconspicuous. Flowers in ample panicled 

 racemes ; bracts narrow, rarely persistent ; bracteoles 0. Calyx very 

 oblique ; tube short ; segments 5, imbricate, the lowest the longest., 

 covering the others in bud like a hood. Petals 5, subequal or the upper 



