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54. XTLIA. 



X, dolabriformis. Tree with whitish bark, pinnae 2, with 

 a gland between, looking like separate leaves, leaflets 4 to 10, 

 lanceolate large, with a gland between each pair, flower-heads 

 size of a gooseberry, greenish, fragant, pod very hard, five or 

 six inches long. Jamba, yeral, suria. 



S. Konkan and Canara. The white filaments with yellow anthers, 

 and the pod, curved and widening at the end, are very noticeable. 



55. ENTADA. 



E. scandens (E. purscBtha, D.). An immense woody climber, 

 the main stem often with a spiral wing, pinna one or two pair, 

 leaflets 2 to 5 pair, ovate or obovate, spikes erect, axillary about 

 six inches long ; flowers white, becoming yellow ; pod a yard 

 long, hard and woody, reddish-brown, seeds nearly round, 

 about two inches in diameter. Gdrbi, Kdrdal } Khairi. 



The Ghauts and Konkan hills. 



The flowers of this may often be seen so high np as to be quite in- 

 accessible ; a difficulty which very commonly troubles botanists in 

 great tropical forests. The immense jointed pods must be known to 

 many who have never seen the tree. The seeds are both eatable and 

 medicinal. 



Called in Ceylon ' the great hollow creeper ' ; the pods sometimes 

 five feet long and six inches broad, the seeds used as tinder boxes 

 when hollowed out. Tennant. 



56. ADEMANTHKKA. 



A. pavonina. Pinnae 4 to 6 pair, leaflets 6 to 9 pair, flowers 

 in pretty yellow spikes, pod long, curved, seeds scarlet, large. 

 Thorala ganj. Sanscrit, Kuchandana. 



Khandesh and Guzerat (.). 



The seeds are used as goldsmiths' weights and made into neck- 

 laces. 



57. PROSOPIS. 



P. spicigera. A tree with short stout thorns, branches very 

 drooping, ioliage small and pale, pinnae 1 to 3 pair, leaflets 8 

 to 12 pair, linear obtuse, smooth, flowers yellow in long slender 

 spikes, several together, very pretty ; pods slender, cylindrical 

 or contracted between the seeds. Sumri, shema, Jcandt, 

 saundar. 



Guzerat, Cutch and Sind, common : less so in the Deccan and N. 

 Konkan. The pulp is eatable. 



