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ed into a small pit and allowed to ferment for a few 

 weeks, the flowers become a useful fertiliser for 

 plants in pots. Honge cake is a valued manure for 

 certain crops and especially for coffee, in Mysore 

 and Coorg. 



Cultivation— Removed from the pod, thq seeds 

 germinate freely under the usual treatment ; and 

 seedlings are large enough, to^ put out perma:pently 

 in the second year of cultivation in the nursery. 

 They should be planted in naturally moist situations, 

 as by the sides of tanks and streams and in the dips 

 of vaileys. Forty feet should be allowed between the 

 trees. 



205 Caesalpinia Bonducella, Fleming. Kan. Sa^na 



Gajjiga. 

 Pig-— ^ot Plaies Lal-Bagh Collection. 

 An extensive climber armed with numerous, pricki 

 les. It forms impenetrable thickets around villages 

 and wherever it is allowed scope. This is the species 

 with small seeds. 



206 Caesalpinia Bond uc, ^oxb. Kan. Gajg%a. 



■pig,—Bot. FlatesLal'-Bagh GQllection. 



The fever nut or nicker tree. Ani immense climber 

 possessing the same characteristics as the preceding 

 species but larger in. nearly all its prominent partss 

 The leqiden coloured seeds are used by- the villajge 

 children in lieu of marbles; their principali use, 

 however, is in. native medicine, for which they possessf 

 a marketable value of about B.s. 12 per cwt. They 

 contain, a fixed oil-resin, with a bitter substanoei 

 which is used as an antiperiodic in fever. 



207 Caesaipinias Sappan, hiWi Kcm. 'Ba,img&, Sap- 



panga. 



]fig.— SoL Places LaUBxagh Oolhctim- 

 'References.— Dict.of Econ. Prod. ofJnd.; Phmml 

 Jnd. 



