g6 The Flowering Plants of Western India. 



Common on the highest Ghauts (D.). Matheran (Birdwood). I have 

 seen it only at Lanoli. Its great size and peculiar calyx make it 

 remarkable. H. has a variety in which the leaflets are 3 or 4 inches 

 long. 



47. PoiNCIANA. 



P. elata. A tree with 10 to 16 pinnae and 30 to 40 leaflets, 

 flowers in racemes white, changing to yellow, with long dark 

 filaments, pod several inches long. Sandesrd. 



Gardens (Q. and Z>.), but H. calls it wild in the W. Peninsula. 



P. regia is the large flowered gulmohar, one of the trees which 

 make Bombay compounds so beautiful in the cold weather, called by 

 the French in the W. Indies " Fleur de Paradis." It is planted 

 along the roads at Batavia (Forbes), and I have also heard of it as 

 one of the beauties of Nassau in the Bahamas. 



Parkinsonia is closely allied to this genus, but has a necklace- 

 shaped pod. P. acuieata is a very common thorny shrub, with 

 yellow flowers, without admixture of red : the leaflets fall very soon, 

 and leave a large raohis like the phyllodes in some acacias. Native 

 of tropical America. Vilagatibdbul, Kesribdbul. 



48. WAGATEA. 



W. spicata. A small thorny shrub, sometimes slightly 

 climbing, pinnae and leaflets 5 to 7 pair, leaflets oblong obtuse, 

 flowers very handsome in close erect spikes, the calyx scarlet, 

 petals orange, pod red, much swollen at the seeds. Wagdti, 

 wd/ciri, wdmera. 



Ghauts and S. Konkan. Tolerably common and very noticeable 

 from the length and elegant shape of the spikes. 



(6) GASSIER. 



49. CASSIA. Senna. 



1 . C. Fistula. Tree, leaflets 4 to 8 pair, large ovate, pointed 

 smooth, flowers in long drooping racemes, stamens perfect, but 

 the anthers of 2 or 3 larger than the rest, pod perfectly 

 cylindrical, brown, smooth, from 1 to 2 feet long. Bdwa, 

 garmdla, chimkani. 



The Ghauts and Konkan. Common throughout the forest tracts of 

 India (.) 



One of the most noticeable of jungle trees, the flowers like 

 "laburnum, rich in streaming gold," to which the Germans give the 

 beautiful name of " Golden rain." But the pods, which are little 

 less remarkable, are said to have procured for the tree the less 

 romantic name of "pudding pipe tree." The medicinal cassia 

 comes from the pulp surrounding the seeds. Suvarna of Sanscrit 

 poetry. 



