Order 42. Leguminosce. $$ 



(a) EUC^SALPINEJ:. 



45. C^SALPINIA. 



1. 0. bonduceUa (Guilandina Bonduc, D.). A large 

 climber, pinnae 4 to 8 pair, leaflets about 4 pair, smooth, oblong 

 obtuse, flowers in racemes, each with a lanceolate bract, calyx 

 rusty, pod ovate, swelling, very prickly, seeds 2, large. 

 Sdgargota, Kdchki, Karbat. 



Common in hedges : most so in Guzerat, I think. 



" The fever nut widely spread throughout the tropics." Srandis. 

 " Rounded prickly pods, which, being opened, proved to contain the 

 grey horse-nicker beads of our childhood." Kingsley. " The seeds 

 are so strongly coated with silex that they are said to strike fire like 

 a flint." Tetmaw*. 



2. C. nuga (C. paniculata, D.). Spreading smooth, thorns 

 short and curved, pinnse and leaflets 3 or 4 pair each, leaflets 

 large, ovate shining above, flowers in terminal panicles fragrant, 

 calyx lobes larger than the petals arising from a broad fleshy 

 tube, pod brown, woody, irregularly oval, nearly flat, 1 -seeded. 



Tolerably common in the S. Konkan : always, I believe, growing 

 near the eea or tidal creeks. 



3. C. sepiaria. A similar shrub, pinnae 6 to 10 pairs, 

 leaflets 8 to 12 pairs, linear oblong obtuse, racemes large erect, 

 calyx coloured, pod linear oblong smooth, with a long abrupt 

 point, 4 to 8-seeded. Chillar. 



Common in the Deccan. It forms an impenetrable fence, and was 

 planted by Tippoo Ali round fortified places, and therefore (pre- 

 sumably) called Mysore thorn. 



C. mimosoides, straggling or climbing, every part thorny and rusty, 

 pinnae 12 to 30 pair, leaflets 8 to 10 pair, flowers smaller than the last 

 in long racemes, pod short, inflated with short recurved point. 

 Rajapore. Wari jungles (-Z).). 



Ccesalpiniapulclierrima (Poincianap. D.). The common gold mohur 

 tree, O-ulmohar. The well-known flower fence of the W. Indies, also 

 called " Barbadoes pride." C. coriaria is the libi or dividivi tree, 

 cultivated for the pods, which are used in tanning. *0. sappan 

 produces the valuable wood sappan, and the dye guldl : said to be 

 found in gardens. Other species produce what is called Brazil wood. 



46. MEZONEUEUM. 



M. cucullatum. An immense thorny climber, with large 

 leaves of about 4 pinnse, and 3 pairs of leaflets, both stalked ; 

 leaflets oval pointed, smooth and shining, flowers small, 

 yellowish-green in racemes or panicles, calyx as large as the 

 corolla, upper petals fleshy, dark, hooded, pod leafy, 1-seeded, 

 with wing exactly similar to the pod itself. Rdgi. 



