Dr. H. F. C. Cleghom on the Hedge Plants of India. 243 



Pterolobium lacerans, R. Br. 

 CcBsalpinia lacerans, Buch (Journey, i. 37). 

 A common jungle shrub in wooded districts, aptly designated 

 lacerans by Roxburgh, for it is completely armed, and as dreadful 

 as the Kantuffa of Bruce*, which belongs to the same genus. 

 The legume is curious, ending in a membranous knife-shaped 

 wing. When associated with C sepiaria it makes an excellent 

 fence ; singly it is rather diffuse. 



Guilandina Bonduc or Bonducella, L. 



Nicker Tree. 



Nata, Bengal. Kad Gajaga, Can. 



A handsome well-armed shrub common in hedges of Mysore and 



Canara: forms an impenetrable fence. Seeds solitary, like marbles, 



and are a favourite remedy in catarrh and ephemeral fever. 



Parkinsonia aculeata, L. 



Prickly Parkinsonia or Jerusalem Thorn. 



A handsome low-sized tree, not unlike the laburnum, planted 

 for fences, which are very beautiful, from the bright green and 

 feathery foliage, and pretty yellow flowers in loose pendulous 

 racemes. It seems well adapted for hedges, and is naturalized 

 in many districts. Observed at Cairo by Hooker, and in Jamaica 

 by Macfadyen, at Bellary by Newbold, and about Bombay by 

 Graham. 



Poinciana pulcherrima, L. 



Gool Mohur. " Peacock's Pride." 



A common armed shrub in every garden, reared more for the 

 beauty of its flowers than as a serviceable fence. P. elata, L., is 

 a more shovv^ plant, not so frequently met with, and unarmed. 

 "In Barbadoes P. pulcherrima is planted for a fence, and to 

 distinguish fields from one another, both for its use and orna- 

 ment. I thought I never saw anything finer than a hedge of 

 thist" 



Mimosa ruhicaulis, Lam. 



A large climbing shrub, well armed; common in Mysore; 

 rather straggling, but capable of forming an elegant fence ; con- 

 spicuous from the purple flowers changing to white. I am not 

 aware that this species has been" tried. 



Inga dulcis, Willd. 

 Koorka pooUy, Teling. 

 A handsome tree, introduced from the Philippine Islands ac- 

 cording to Roxburgh, and there probably from America, of which 



* Travels in Abyssinia, vol. v. t Sloane's Jamaica, p. 60. 



