ADENANTHERA PAVONINA. Linn. (Nat. ord. Leguminosse ; Sub-ord. Mimosae ; Tribe Adenanthereee.) 



ADENANTHERA. (Linn.) Gen. PI 1, p. 589.— GEN. CHAR. Flowers pentamerous shortly pedieelled, calyx campanulate shortly 

 toothed, petals cohering below the middle, or at length free, valvate, stamens 10 free scarcely exserted, anthers of the fertile flowers bearing a shortly stalked 

 deciduous gland, 07ary sessile mauy ovuled, style filiform, stigma small terminal legume linear often incurved or falcate compressed or swollen at the seeds 

 2 valved, valves entire, generally incurved at length contorted, seeds thick and hard, testa scarlet or two colored. Trees unarmed, leaves bipinnate, leaflets 

 small in many pairs, racemes elongate slender axillary or panicled at the apex of the branches, flowers white or yellowish, hermathrodite or polygamous. 



ADENANTHERA PAVONINA. (Linn.) A large tree, trunk erect, bark dark colored, scabrous when old, smooth wheu 

 young, leaves alternate abruptly bipinnate 1-3 feet long, pinnee opposite 4-6 pair, 4-12 inches long, leaflets alternate short petioled 

 4-12 pairs, oval with the margins waved smooth on both sides 1-2 inches long, petioles round smooth, colored, racemes terminal and 

 from the upper axils solitary cylindrical about a span long, flowers numerous, small yellowish fragrant, bracts minute caducous. 



This large timber tree is said to be wild in the forests of the Northern drears and elsewhere, but I have myself never met with it wild. It is 

 very common in a cultivated state, particularly in gardens at Madras, and is abundant in Birmah. The timber, when fresh cut, much resembles the 

 red sanders, and has a pleasant smell ; it is strong,bul not stiff, hard, durable, tolerably close and eoen grained, and takes a good polish. When fresh 

 it is of a beautiful red color with streaks of a darker chade, but afterwards turns purple and resembles rosewood. A cubic foot unseasoned weighs 

 62 lbs., and when seasoned 56 lbs. ; its specific gravity is -896, it is used for house building and cabinet making purposes ; it is known to Europeans 

 as the red wood tree, and is called dni kunddmani in Tamil, Bandi guriienda in Teligoo ; Manjaii in Malay alim, Thorla goonj in the Bombay 

 Presidency, Madateya in Ceylon, and y-wai gyi in Birmah. The woodyields a red dye itsed by Brahmins in marking their foreheads. The seeds 

 weigh 4 grains each, and are used as weights by jewellers. A cement is made by beating them up with borax and voter, and the pulp is used me* 

 clicinally. The tree is easily raised from seed, and is of rapid growth, and has been largely planted in some of our plantations. 



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