Dichrostachys.] LEGUMINOSAE. 41 



torulose, straight or twisted, septate within, mesocarp thick, 



spongy. Seeds ovoid, compressed. 



PROSOPIS SPICIGERA, Linn.; F. B. I. ii. 288; W. & A. 271;. 

 Roxb. Cor. PI. t, 63; Bedd. Fl. t. 56; Brand. For. Fl. t. 25. 

 Deccan and Carnatic, from the Godavari southwards, on dry 

 stony lands and on black cotton soil, in open forest, more 

 rarely in thicker forest. 



A small to moderate-sized deciduous tree with many thorns 

 on broad bases, the leaflets distant, linear-oblong, about '5 in. 

 long, the pods cylindric, torulose and pulpy. Bark thick, 

 grey, rough ; wood purplish- brown, hard, a good fuel. The 

 pods are eaten by cattle. Yern. Hind. Jhand ; Tel. Chani ;. 

 Tarn. Perumbe. 



81. Dichrostachys, DC. 



Shrubs, the branchlets often ending in spines. Leaves bipinnate ; 

 pinnae paripinnate ; leaflets usually very small and numerous,, 

 opposite, contiguous ; stipules lanceolate or subulate ; stipels 0. 

 Flowers in cylindric peduncled spikes on short axillary branchlets, 

 the upper flowers <J yellow, the lower ones neuter, with pink 

 filiform staminodes. Calyx campanulate, shortly toothed. Petals 

 5, valvate, connate below. Stamens 10, free, exserted ; anthers 

 ending in stalked glands. Ovary subsessile, many-ovuled ; style 

 filiform ; stigma terminal, truncate. Pod linear, compressed,, 

 twisted up when ripe, continuous within, indehiscent or separating 

 from the suture. Seeds obovate, compressed. 

 DICHROSTACHYS CINEREA, W. A. 271 ; F. B. I. ii. 288; Roxb. 

 Cor. PI. t. 174; Bedd. Fl. t. 185. 



N. Circars, Deccan and Carnatic, westwards to the dry slopes 

 of the Ghats, in dry scrub forests and on stony hills. 

 A thorny shrub or small tree with thorny branches, pretty 

 tasselled flowers, twisted pods and very small pubescent 

 leaflets. Bark grey or light brown ; wood red streaked with 

 black, very hard and tough and a good fuel. Yern. Hind. 

 Yurtuli ; Tel Yelturu ; Tarn. Yadatalla ; Kan. Wadu. 

 Desmanthns virgatits, "VVilld., is an introduced American uiider- 

 shrub with flowers in small peduncled heads, small straight pods 

 and small leaflets, occasionally found, especially near Madras. 



Leucaena glauca, Benth., is a large shrub with rather large 

 globose heads of white flowers, glaucous foliage with narrow 



