Mimosa.] XXXI. LEGUMINOSiE. 173 



Common in open or thin jungles throughout the greater part of India, in the 

 plains extending to the Ganges, and in the hills as far as the Indus (ascend- 

 ing to 4000 ft. in Kamaon) ; in the Panjab, abundant in the outer hills and the 

 Siwalik tract, and found at times on the banks of rivers or canals, some way 

 into the plains. Fl. Aug.-Sept. ; fr. Nov. -Jan. Gunpowder is made of the 

 charcoal. 



9. PITHECOLOBIUM, Martius. 



Shrubs or trees, with bipinnate leaves, generally with glands at the base 

 of pinnae and leaflets. Mowers generally white, in globose heads or cylin- 

 drical spikes ; pentamerous, rarely hexamerous, generally bisexual. Calyx 

 campanulate or tubular, with short teeth. Corolla tubular or funnel- 

 shaped, segments valvate. Stamens indefinite, much longer than corolla, 

 more or less connate ; anthers small. Ovary with numerous ovules ; style 

 filiform, with a small terminal stigma. Pod compressed or flat, variously 

 contorted, coriaceous, 2-valved. Seeds included in a scanty pulp. 



Leaflets 1 pair ; pod turgid, twisted . . . . .P. dulce. 

 Leaflets 2-4 pair ; pod fiat, spirally contorted . . .P. bigeminum. 



1. P. dulce, Benth. in Hooker's Journal of Botany, iii. (1844) 199; 

 Bedd. Fl. Sylv. t. 188. Syn. Mimosa dulcis, Eoxb. Fl. Ind. ii. 556; 

 PI. Cor. t. 99. Inga dulcis, Willd. ; W. & A. Prodr. 268. Manilla Tama- 

 rind. Vern. Vilayati (foreign) imli, dakhani (southern) babool. 



A large tree, armed with short, straight, stipulary thorns. Glabrous or 

 lightly pubescent. Pinnae and leaflets 1 pair each ; leaflets unequal-sided, 

 oblong or obovate, obtuse, 1-1 J in. long. Common and partial petioles 

 terminate in short bristles ; small cup-shaped glands at the base of pinnae 

 and leaflets. Flowers white, in small globose, sessile or short-pedunculate, 

 canescent heads, on long racemose panicles. Pod turgid, twisted, linear, 

 -| in. broad. Seeds embedded in a firm sweetish pulp. 



Indigenous in the hot regions of Mexico, introduced into the Philippine 

 Islands, and thence into India. Cultivated commonly in South India, and here 

 and there in Central and North- West India. 



A large tree, with a straight stem, and drooping branchlets. Bark J-| in. 

 thick, ash-coloured, smoothish, irregularly rugose. Fl. Jan.-March ; fr. ripens 

 April-June. Sapwood small, heartwood reddish brown, not heavy, 40 lb. per 

 cub. ft., smells unpleasantly when fresh-sawn, used for various purposes. A 

 good avenue-tree. Coppices well in South India, grown for fuel. Extensively 

 cultivated as a hedge-plant. In Manilla it is grown on account of the fruit, 

 which is eaten. From the seeds oil is pressed in Madura and Tinnevelly. 



2. P. bigeminum, Martius ; Benth. 1. c. 206. Syn. Inga bigemina, 

 Willd. ; W. & A. Prodr. 269. Vern. Kachlora, Kamaon. 



A large, unarmed, glabrous tree, extremities inflorescence, and pods 

 with short, dark, ferruginous pubescence. Common petiole short, 1-3 in. 

 long, with a raised oval gland, bearing 1, rarely 2 pairs of pinnae, with 

 2-4 pairs of large, shining, ovate or elliptic-oblong, acuminate leaflets, 

 3-6 in. long. Heads with 6-12 subsessile flowers, in axillary panicles. 

 Peduncles fasciculate, but generally superposed, in a vertical line, one 



