146 LEGUMimS/E. 



22. PIPTADENIA, Benth. 



1. P. oudhensis, Brand is 168; Hook. Fl. Ind. ii. 2s9. Adenanthera 

 vud/iensis, J. L. Stewart. Vern. Gainti, Oudh. 



A moderate-sized tree. Bark J inch thick, grey-brown to dusky red, 

 rough with flattish, exfoliating- woody scales ; inner bark red, fibrous. 

 Wood yellowish or reddish, close-grained, no heartwood, hard, durable. 

 Pores moderate-sized and large, often subdivided in patches of soft 

 tissue, which are sometimes confluent. Medullary rays short, numerous, 

 moderately broad. 



Forests at the foot of the Nepal Hills, Gonda division, Oudh, discovered by Mr. 

 E. Thompson. 



O 3084. Goiida, Oudh. 



23. ADENANTHERA, Linn. 



1. A. pavonina, Linn.; Hook. Fl. Ind. ii. 287; Roxb. Fl. Ind. ii.370; 

 Beddome t. 96 ; Brandis 168 ; Kurz i. 41 7. Vern. Rakta-chandan, ranjana, 

 Beng. ; Ani kundamani, Tarn. ; Bandi gurivenda, Tel. ; Manjati, Mai. ; 

 Thorlaganjj Mar.; Manjddi, Kan. Mddateya, Cingh.; Gung, Magh ; 

 Ywaygyee, Burm.; Rechedd, And. 



A deciduous tree, with grey bark. Heartwood red, hard, close-grained. 

 Pores small, scanty, in short radial lines. Medullary rays very fine, 

 extremely numerous. 



Bengal, South India, Burma and Andaman Islands. 



Weight, Skinner, No. 12, gives 56 Ibs., which is the same as our specimen ; Bennett 

 gives 55 Ibs. Skinner gives P = 863 ; and Bennett 942. The wood is used in South 

 India for house-building and cabinet-making purposes, and gives a red dye. The seeds 

 are worn as ornaments, and ave used as weights by goldsmiths and jewellers as they 

 are said to be very constant in weight, viz., 4 grains ; they give an oil. 



Ibs. 



B 523. Andaman Islands ...... . . .56 



24. PKOSOPIS, Linn. 



Contains about 18 species, dispersed over the tropical and sub-tropical regions of 

 Asia, Africa and America. Of the five sections which compose the genus, sections 

 whose characters are based to some extent upon the shape and structure of the fruit, 

 three may be noticed, as they contain species which have lately been introduced into 

 India : 



") C Contains the two Indian species ; 



. J 



" 



. 



sightly thickened at the 



2. With the pod smooth, 

 thickened at the seeds so as to 

 be almost jointed, and gener- 

 ally falcate .... 



I the Northern Punjab plains and 

 (^Western Asia. 

 C Contains two of the species 

 I now being grown, viz., P. cjlan- 

 Algarobia . . < dulosa of the mountains of West- 

 I ern Texas ; and P. pa Hid a of 

 i^Sonth America. 



o Tir-i-u ^ A 11 ~) C Contains the true " Mesquit 



3 With the pod spirally ( strombocarpa . ) Bean, or P. ^^mr^v of Texas 



twlsted ) ( and New Mexico. 



P. spiciyera, Linn., is hero described; P. Stephan'noKt, Kunth ; Hook. Fl. Ind. 

 ii. 238; Brandis 171. Vern. J,-tn1n'if. Aral)., is a small thorny shrub of no economic use. 



P. pattida, Kunth, is ;i native of South America, and lias been sum-ssi'iilly 

 ^rown in Crvlon. Its pods aro considered of high value us a tanning material, con- 



