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anthers tipped with globose deciduous glands. Pod woody, of immense size, 

 2-4 ft. long, 3-4 in. broad, consisting of 10-30 one-seeded, flat, square or nearly 

 orbicular joints, the valves thick, separating from the thick rim. Seeds flat, 

 nearly orbicular, brown, shining, testa very hard. 



Subhimalayan tract from Nepal eastwards, ascending to 2,000 ft. Silhet, Manipur, 

 Burma, Andamans, Nicobars, Western Ghats. PL March-May. — Ceylon, Malay Penin- 

 sula, and Archipelago. China. Sea coast of the tropics in both hemispheres. 



5. ADENANTHERA, Linn.; Fl. Brit. Ind. ii. 287. 



(Species 4, one in Queensland, the others in tropical Asia.) 



A. pavonina, Linn.; Wight 111. t. 84; Bedd. Fl. Sylv. t. 46. Vern. 

 Manjadi, Kan. ; Ani Kundamani, Tarn. ; Yivetgyi, Burm. 



A deciduous, unarmed tree ; heart-wood red, hard. L. bipinnate, pinnae opposite, 

 4-6 pair ; leaflets evenly alternate, 12-20, elliptic-oblong obtuse, 1 in. long. 

 Fl. yellow, fragrant, on slender pedicels, in long panicled racemes. Calyx small, 

 carnpanulate, teeth short ; petals 5, connate at the base. Stamens 10, free, 

 anthers tipped with a deciduous gland. Pods linear, curved and twisted when 

 opening, 4^9 in. long. Seeds bright scarlet, shining, lenticular, compressed. 



Subhimalayan tract from Gorakhpur eastwards. Silhet, Andamans, Burma. Western 

 Ghats from Khandeish southwards, not common. Fl. H. S. — Malay Peninsula and 

 Archipelago, China. 



6. XYLIA, Benth.; Fl. Brit. Ind. ii. 286. 



X. dolabriformis, Benth. The only species. — Syn. Mimosa xylocarpa, 

 Roxb. Cor. PI. t. 100 ; Xylia xylocarpa, Taub. in Engler u. Prantl iii. 3. 122. 

 The Ironwood of Burma. Vern. Suria, Chanda; Jamba, Mar.; Tangedu, Tel. ; 

 Irul, Tam. ; Pyin, Pyinkado, Burm. 



A lofty tree, leafless during part of the hot season. Bark grey ; heart-wood 

 dark red, very hard. One pair of phrase at the end of a common petiole 1-5 in. 

 long ; leaflets 2-6 pair, oblong acuminate, 3-9 in. long. Fl. pale yellow, in 

 globose long-pedunculate heads. Calyx-tubular, wider at mouth, teeth short ; 

 petals linear, cohering at the base ; anthers with small stipitate deciduous 

 glands. Pod flat, thick, woody, 4-6 in. long, 2-2^ in. wide at the broadest 

 part, 2-valved, opening suddenly. Seeds 6-10, compressed, testa brown, shining. 



Common in the moister districts of the Western Peninsula, on the east side in Orissa 

 and the forests north of the Godavery ; the Moharli forests in the Chanda district being its 

 northern limit in Central India. Often gregarious. Burma, in the deciduous forests, 

 ascending to 3,000 ft. Fl. while leafless in March and April ; fr. in the ensuing cold 

 season. 



7. PARKIA, R. Brown ; Fl. Brit. Ind. ii. 289. 



Unarmed trees. L. bipinnate ; leaflets very numerous. Fl. in globose or 

 clavate heads, each head supported by a coriaceous bract, the upper fl. bi- 

 sexual, the lower male or sterile. Stamens 10, filaments connate at base and 

 adnate to calyx-tube. Pod flat, coriaceous, tardily dehiscent. Species 19, 

 tropics of both hemispheres. 



1, P. Roxburghii, G. Don. Vern. Supota, Beng. 



Attains 60 ft., and 2 ft. diam. Pinna? 20-30 pair ; leaflets 40-80 pairs, 

 \ in. long; pod 15-20 in. long, 1| in. broad, smooth, dark brown. 



Assam, Silhet, Cachar, Chittagong. Fl. Dec. 2. P. insignis, Kurz. Vern. Myanh 

 tanyet, Burma, forests east of Toungoo. Pinnae 4 pair ; leaflets 20-25 pair, 1 in. long. 

 3. P. leiophylla, Kurz, Pegu Toma. Pinnae 10 pair ; leaflets 15-20 pair, J in. long ; pod 

 12-18 in. long, black, torulose. 



Leucsena glauea, Benth. ; Fl. Brit. Ind. ii. 290, naturalized, common in hedges, 



