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 ; pinnae 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, 

 4b2 ; Syn. C simora, Ham. in Roxb. Fl Ind. ii, 369. 



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

 petioles armed with short, strong recurved prickles ; pinnae 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." DO. Prod 

 2, 484. 



Note. — The famous Arambooli 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 6 to 6 pair, 

 oblong obtuse, coriaceous, shining above ; flowers in terminat 

 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 tiie Concans. Syn. 

 C8esal|)inia digyna, Graham's Catalogue, p 60. South of Panwell, 

 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 6 pair, ovate-pointed, 

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

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

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

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

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

 cucullatta, Roxb. Fl Ind. ii, 358. 



42. CASSIA, Linn. 



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

 leaflets about 6 pair, broadly ovate, obtuse or retuse, glabrous ; 



