80 



2. MIMOSOIDES, Lam. Encyc. Meth i, 457. -Climbing, stem and 

 branches armed with numerous straight prickles, young parts 

 coloured, armed with prickles and glandular bristles ; pinna? of the 

 leaves 12 to 30 pair; leaflets 8 to 16 pair, linear oblong, glabrous; 

 racemes simple, leaf-opposed and terminal ; legumes short, 

 obliquely truncated, cuspidate turgid, hairy, 2-seeded. Jungles 

 in the Warree country ; plentiful ; flowers in January. DC. Prod. 2, 

 482 ; Syn. C simora, Ham. in Roxb. Fl Ind. ii, 359. 



3. SEPIARIA, Roxb. Fl Ind. ii, 360. Climbing; branches and 

 petioles armed with short, strong recurved prickles ; pinna3 of the 

 leaves 6 to 10 pair; leaflets 8 to 12 pair, linear, oblong obtuse; 

 racemes axillary, solitary ; calyx coloured ; flowers yellow, appear 

 in December, also in March and April ; legumes linear oblong, 

 smooth, with a long cuspidate point, 4 to 8-seeded. At Banda ; 

 more plentiful in the Deccan. Native name" Chillur." DC. Prod. 

 2, 484. 



NOTE. The famous Ararabooli lines between Tippoo's and the Travancore 

 country were made of this. 



40. WAGATEA, Dalz. 



1. SPICATA, Dalz. in Hook. Jour. Bot. iii, p 89. Shrubby, 

 climbing ; branches and petioles armed with many recurved 

 thorns; leaves bipinnate; pinnae 5 to 6 pair; leaflets 5 to 6 pair, 

 oblong obtuse, coriaceous, shining above ; flowers in terminal 

 tapering spikes, 1 to 2 feet long, scarlet and orange-coloured; legumes 

 linear, coriaceous, much swollen at the seeds, and constricted 

 between them. Common in the jungles of the Concans. Syn. 

 Csesalpinia digyna, Graham's Catalogue, p 60. South of Pan well, 

 also on the Ghauts. 



41. MEZONEURUM, Desf. 



1. CUCULLATUM, W. and A. Prod. 283. Scandent armed, 

 pinnae of the leaves 3 to 7 pair; leaflets 4 to 5 pair, ovate-pointed, 

 coriaceous, shining on the upperside ; panicles terminal and axillary, 

 composed of a few rigid racemes ; flowers greenish-yellow, appear in 

 January and February; legume unarmed, foliaceous, ovate-oblong 

 compressed, with a wing along the seminiferous suture. The higher 

 Ghauts; common. Native name " Ragee." Syn. Caesalpinia 

 cucullatta, Roxb. Fl I rid. ii, 358. 







42. CASSIA, Linn. 



1. FISTULA, Linn. sp. p 540. A small tree; leaves pinnated ; 

 leaflets about 5 pair, broadly ovate, obtuse or retuse, glabrous ; 



