N. 0. LEGUMINOStE. 509 



dark green, nearly glabrous and shining above, pale beneath. 

 Panicles large. Heads pale yellow, peduncled, §-Jin. diam. 

 brown in buds, generally 1-4 together. Pod 4-6 by T VlJm., 

 strap-shaped, dark-brown, dehiscent finely pubescent, hardly- 

 stalked. Seeds 8-12. 



Use : — 'The flowers are used by Santal women in deranged 

 courses.' (Rev. A Campbell, Santal Mission, Pachumba). 



453. A, pennata, Willd, h.f.b.i., ii. 297. 



Syn : — Mimosa pennata, Lin. Eoxb. 424. 



Vern : — Agla, awal (Kumaon) ; Kumdaree (Kol) ; Arar 

 (Kharwar) Biswool (H.) ; shembi (Bomb.) ; Undaru (Santal) ; 

 Arfu (Nepal) ; Tolrik (Lepcha.) 



Habitat : — The Central and Eastern Himalayas, Behar, 

 Eastern and Western Peninsulas. 



A large climbing shrub. Bark reddish brown, Jin. thick, 

 with horizontal cracks. Wood porous, moderately hard ; reddish 

 brown prickles on branchlets petioles and inflorescence ; branch- 

 lets and petioles pubescent. Pinnae 20-40 pair, leaflets i-Jin. 

 long, 30-60 pair, narrow-linear, overlapping, making each 

 pinna like the feather of a bird. Flower-heads white or pale 

 yellow, 4-8 together in the axils of leaves or bracts, forming 

 large racemiform panicles, bracts linear minute. Pod shining, 

 very thin, straight, strap-shaped, glabrous, dehiscent, 6-8 by 

 f-l^in., distinctly stalked, 8-12-seeded, the sutures rather raised, 

 slightly repand. 



Uses : — In the Concan, the leaf-juice mixed with milk is given 

 to infants who suffer from indigestion of milk with black stools. 

 In bleeding from the gums the leaves are chewed with cumin 

 and sugar, they are also rubbed to a pulp and mixed with 

 cow's milk, cumin and sugar, as a remedy for scalding of the 

 urine. (Dymock.) 



454. Alhizzia Lebbeck, Benih. h.f.b. I., n. 298. 

 Syn :— Mimosa Sirissa, Eoxb. 417. 



Sans : — Shirish. 



Vern :— Sir is, sirin, mathirsi, lasrin, kalsis tantia (H.) ; 



