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Concan. Native name " Aupta." Worshipped by the Hindoos on 

 the Dussera festival; the leaves are used for making native cigars. 

 Also called " Wuna rajah," or king of the jungle; said to be men- 

 tioned in the Vedas. Syn. B parviflora, Vahl. Symb. iii, p 55 ; 

 DC. Prod. 2, 514; Roxb. Fl Ind. ii, 323. This forms the new^ 

 genus Piliostigma hochst. 



3. Vahlii, W. and A. Prod, p 297. — Climbing to an immense 

 extent, often arboreous; young shoots, petioles, and peduncles 

 covered with a thick rusty-coloured tomentum ; leaves roundish, 

 deeply cordate at the base, underside tomentose; leaflets oval 

 obtuse, united to above the middle ; racemes terminal, corymbiform ; 

 legumes pendulous, Ito IJ foot long, covered with brown tomen- 

 tum, 8 to 12-seeded. The Thul Ghaut ; ravines at Kandalla. 

 Native name " Chamboolee." Syn. B racemosa, Vahl. Symb. iii, 

 p 66, t. 62; DC. Prod. 2, 615 ; Roxb. Fl Ind. ii, 325. The large 

 seeds are eaten raw ; when ripe, they taste like cashew-nuts ; the 

 leaves are employed to line baskets, and for thatching houses. 



46. CYNOMETRA, Linn. 



1 . Ramiflora, Linn. sp. p 509. — A shrub ; leaves pinnated ; 

 leaflets 1 to 3 pair, oblong acuminated or emarginate ; peduncles 

 solitary, few-flowered, springing from the branches among the 

 leaves ; legume nearly half orbicular, thick, tumid fleshy, tubercled 

 and rugged on the outside. Southern Concan; very rare. DC. 

 Prod. 2, p 509; Rumph. Amb. i, t. 63; Wight and Arnott's 

 Prod. 293. 



47. HARDWICKIA, Roxb. 



1. BiNATA, Roxb. Fl Ind. ii, 423. — A tree; leaves abruptly 

 pinnated ; leaflets 1 pair, opposite, obliquely ovate obtuse ; racemes 

 axillary panicled ; corolla none ; legume lanceolate, 2-valved, open- 

 ing at the apex ; seed solitary in the apex of the legume, thin and 

 membranous on one edge. In the Lulling Pass between Malli- 

 gaum and Dhoolia, Dr. Gibson and Lieutenant Auld ; other parts 

 of Kandeish, and in Nimar. 



48. ENTADA, Linn. 



• 1. Pus^THA, DC. Prod. 2, 425. — An immense climbing shrub; 

 leaves bipinnated; pinnae 1 to 2 pair; leaflets 2 to 5 pair, glabrous, 

 oblong-obovate or ovate, emarginate, spikes solitary or in pairs, 

 lorig, slender, axillary; flowers yellow, appear in March; legumes 

 of extraordinary size, 2 to 3 feet long, 4 to 5 inches broad, constricted 

 between the seeds; seeds very large. Native name "Gardul." 



