114 KOREST •mBfig. 



red paste (see also Pferocarjms santalinus) wliiek- 

 Brahmins apply to the forehead after bathing".' 

 Weight 56—58 lb. .per cubic foot. The seeds and • 

 leaves have medicinal properties. 



Ci^tivation.— In loose soil this tree is of fairly 

 rapid growth, but when the roots meet with obstruc- 

 tion, as in a hard subsoil resting under a shallow 

 surface soil, the tree becomes stunted. Seeds 

 germinate with great facility and the seedlings are 

 not delicate to handle. Large pits should be made 

 at 24 feet apart. 



238 Prosopis spicigera, Linn. Tarn. Perumbe; Yunne ? 



^ig--Bedd.' Fl. Sylv. t. 56. 



RefereiiQes.-Brand. For, Fl. ; Diet, of Ecm. 

 Frod. of Ind. 



This is a small but characteris.tic tree of the 

 mixed zone. Slightly thorny, with slender grey 

 bra,nches. Leaves deciduous in the cold season, 

 bipinn^te; leaflets 16—24, sessile, ligulate to lan- 

 ceolate, very narrow and slender. Bod grey, 6 in., 

 straight, slender aud torulose, containing a mealy 

 substance which is eaten. Sapwood large and 

 perishable; heartwood extremely hard but not 

 durable. Weight 58 lb. per cubic foat. Much 

 prized as a fuel tree and always employed, where 

 procurable, for locomatives. It also coppices well 

 and IS easdy raised from seed, in short, one of the 

 best tree,s for fuel plantations. Prosopis. glanduhsa, 

 the 'mesquit bean' tree, ajid P.julifiora, are American 

 species cultivated in the Botanical Gardens. 



239 Dichrpstachys cinerea, W. & A. Ean. Wadu 



warada. 

 ^ig.-Bedd. Fl. 8ylv. 1. 185. 



Reference-Diet, of Econ. Prod, of Ind. 

 A thorny shriib or stunted tree qf the maidan. 

 sspecially around low §tony hills. WoQ(i smaUi but 



