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XLV. LEGUMINOSjE 



[Acrocarpus 



campanulate, teeth 5, equal. Petals equal, slightly imbricate ia bud. Stamens 

 5, long exserted, anthers uniform versatile. Pod stalked, thin, flat, with 

 numerous seeds. (On account of the petals being only slightly imbricate, 

 nearly valvate, sometimes placed under Mimosece.) 



Sikkim, ascending to 4,000 ft., Western Dvvars, Assam, Chittagong. Pegu Yoma, 

 Upper Burma. Western Ghats from South Kanara southwards, ascending to 4,000 ft. 

 Nilgiri, Anamalai and Palni hills. Fl. Dec.-Pebr., with or before the young foliage, 

 which is red. A supposed second species of the Ind. Archip. possibly is a Mezoneuriim. 



8. HARDWICKIA, Roxb. ; PI. Brit. Ind. ii. 270. 



Erect unarmed trees. Leaflets few, coriaceous. PI. small, bisexual, in 

 panicled racemes.. Sepals petaloid, usually 5 rarely 4. Petals none. Stamens 

 twice the number of sepals, anthers short, versatile. Ovary with 1 or 2 ovules. 

 Pod dry. Seed 1, exalbuminous. Species 3, one in Africa. 



1. H. binata, Roxb. Cor. PL t. 209; Bedd. PI. Sylv. t. 26. Vern. Anjan, 

 Hind. Mar. ; Yepi, Naryepi, Tel. ; Acha, Tarn. ; Ka- 

 mara, Karachi, Kan. 



A large gregarious tree. Branchlets slender, droop- 

 ing, heart-wood dark red, extremely hard. Leaflets 2, 

 obtuse, obliquely ovate to trapezoid with 4-5 arcuate 

 longitudinal nerves. PI. greenish-yellow. Racemes 

 lax, in ample axillary and terminal panicles. Pod 

 flat, coriaceous, oblong -lanceolate, with parallel long- 

 itudinal veins, the seed near the end. 



Gregarious but local in patches, in the drier districts of the 

 Western Peninsula, south of the Soane river. PI. K. S. 

 Pr. C. S. Seedlings make a tap root up to 8 ft. long, and 

 probably longer, to reach a moist underground stratum. 



2. H. pinnata, Roxb. Fl. Ind. ii. 423; Bedd. PI. 

 Sylv. t. 255. Vern. Madayan Sampirani, Tarn. ; 

 Koda pala, Mai. 



A large tree, heart-wood brown. Leaflets 4— 6 ? 



alternate, coriaceous, ovate to ovate- lanceolate, 2-4 



in. long. Sec. n. numerous. PL minute, in dense 



cylindric, panicled racemes. Pod turgid, indehiscent, 



almost woody, 1-1| in. long, the seed in the upper 



part. 



Evergreen forests of the Western Ghats from South Kanara to Travancore. PL C. S. 



A balsam exudes when the heart-wood is tapped. Several species of Copaifera, an allied 



genus of South America, yield the Copaiva Balsam in a similar manner. A wedge is 



-cut out of the trunk near the base nearly to the heart, when the balsam flows in 



abundance. Copal also collects in the ground near the roots of several allied trees , 



among others of Hymencea Courharil in Guiana, which yields the Locust Gum, and 



Tracht/lobiitra Hornemannianum, one of the species which yield the African Copal. 



Pig. 113: — Hardwickia 

 binata, Boxb. L. Pr. i 



9. SARACA, Linn. ; PL Brit. Ind. ii. 271. 



Erect unarmed trees. Stipules intrapetiolar, more or less united. PL in 

 panicles with coloured bracts and bracteoles. Calyx-tube long, funnel-shaped, 

 limb 4-cleft, petaloid. Petals none. Stamens 2-8, exserted, oblong, versatile, 

 anthers on long slender filaments. Pod flat, dehiscent, coriaceous. Seeds 

 exalbuminous. Species 16, India and Malay Archipelago. 



A. Bracteoles persistent. 



1. S. indica, Linn.; Bedd. PL Sylv. t. 57. — Syn. Jonesia Asoca, Roxb.; 



