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size are hollowed from its trunk. A variety of this 

 tree is also found with flowers of a reddish yellow, 

 the petals, oblong ovate. 

 Bomhax Go.ssi/pium. — A small tree, a great ornament 

 to the sloping sides of the mountains in the vici- 

 nity of Hurdicar, the flowers yellow, large, and 

 conspicuously bright, on simple terminal racemes, 

 no leaves during inflorescence. The wood of this 

 tree resembles, for its lightness, that of Bombax 

 Ceiha, and the young branches abound in a trans- 

 parent white mucilage, which is given out on 

 immersion in cold w^ater. Seeds sent to the bota- 

 nical o'arden in Calcutta Iraxt come up. 

 ^DIADELPHIA DECANDRIA. 



Rohima 1. — A large tree with spreading bush}- head, 

 leaves pinnated, leaflets petioled, two pair with 

 an odd one, large, ovate, entire, shortly acumi- 

 nated, smooth, shining. Racemes axillary, sim- 

 ple, large and showy; flowers white mixed with 

 pink. Peduncles common, colum.nar, long; 'proper, 

 short, one-flowered. Legume short, between oval 

 and kidney shape, turgid, a little compressed, one 

 seeded, seed more reniform, compressed, covered 

 with a dark brown arill. The leaves, racemes, &c. 

 liave an unpleasant smell. The natives apply the 

 expressed juice of the unripe legumes, as a remedy 

 for the itch. The tree is called by them Pitpapra, 

 is found both below and above the ghats. 



Robhiia 12. — With woody climbing stem and branches, 

 leaves pinnated with an odd one, leaflets from three 

 to five pair, with short gibbous petioles, oblong 

 ovate, (five inches by three) obtusely pointed, en- 

 tire, common, ])etioles very long, downy. Racemes 

 terminal, simple, flowers of a dull white. Pedun- 

 cles downy. Legumes, oblong, linear, compress- 

 ed, smooth. Seeds about six, compressed, of a 

 roundish kidney shape. The ripe legumes fly 

 open with considerable force, and noise, and 

 take a twisted form. It is common in every 

 forest abo\e the ghats, is found also along the 



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