79 



1 to 1 i inch long ; panicles almost leafless, lax, with rufous 

 pubescence, very large; flowers large for the genus; legume 

 stalked, 1 to S-seeded,' IJ to 4 inches long, 8 to 9 lines broad. 

 Syn. D frondosa, Roxb. Fl Ind. iii, p 226 ; D arborea, Heyne in 

 Roth. nov. sp. p 330. Native name "Dandous." Concans, rare; 

 Lulling Ghaut in Kandeish. 



37. SOPHORA, Linn. ' 



1. Heptaphylla, Linn., Wight Ic. t. 1 155. — Shrubby; leaflets 

 5 to 9 pair, elliptic-oblong acute, with recurved margins, glabrous 

 above, strigose with adpressed rusty pubescence beneatli ; stipules 

 rigid subulate ; racemes leaf-opposed, lax, about the length of the 

 leaves ; legume slender, covered with strigose pubescence, attenu- 

 ated at the apex, much contracted between the seeds ; seeds 2 to 4, 

 oval, smooth. Hills east of Belgaum. 



38. GUILANDLNA, Linn. 



1 . BoNDuc, Linn. sp. p 545. — A climbing armed shrub, stem 

 and petioles with hooked prickles ; leaves abruptly bipinnated ; 

 leaflets oval or ovate, 3 to 8 pair ; flowers spicately racemose, yellow, 

 appear in the rains ; legume ovate ventricose compressed, covered 

 with straight prickles. Native name " Sagurgota." Common in 

 'hedges. DC Prod. 2,480 ; Syn. Caesalpinia bonducella, Flem. in 

 As. Res. xi, p 159 ; Roxb. Fl Ind. ii, p357. The powdered seeds, 

 mixed with pepper, are an excellent febrifuge. Dr. Gibson. They 

 are very bitter ; pounded small and mixed with castor-oil, they are 

 a valuable external application in incipient hydrocele ; the leaves 

 fried with a little castor-oil, are a valuable discutient in cases of 

 Hernia humoralis. 



Note. — Seeds large, grey, used to procure abortion. Sagurgota means sea-nutj 

 and there is reason to suspect that this is not a native of the East Indies, but of 

 the West. 



39. C^SALPINIA, Linn. 



1. Paniculata, Roxb. Fl Ind. ii, 364. — A scandent armed 

 shrub; branches and petioles covered with numerous sharp-recurved 

 prickles ; leaves bipinnated ; pinnse, 3 to 4 pair ; leaflets 3 to 4 pair, 

 ovate lanceolate, glabrous, shining above, rusty-coloured beneath ; 

 flowers terminal panicled, yellow, fragrant ; legume obliquely oval 

 cuspidate, compressed, tumid in themiddle, glabrous, one-seeded. 

 Pretty common in the Concan. Syn. C scandens, Roth. nov. sp. 

 p 2U9 ; Guilandina paniculata. Lam. Encyc. Meth. i, 435. Garden 

 at Hewra. 



