512 INDIAN MEDICINAL PLANTS. 



A large shrub or middle-sized, unarmed, deciduous tree. 

 Young shoots, inflorescence and common petiole tomentose or 

 pubescent. Leaf-rachis, with a small gland, at the base of the 

 petiole, and between the upper pinnee ; pinna3 6-12, says 

 Brandis ; 8-24, says J. G. Baker. Leaflets 10-30 pair, membra- 

 nous, sessile, sensitive, Jin. long, cuspidate, straight on the upper 

 side, rounded on the lower, |in. broad. Heads globose on 

 clustered erecto-patent peduncles, from the crowded leaflets 

 upper nodes. Flowers 1-1 Jin. to extremity of stamens. Calyx 

 i-iin., funnel-shaped, shortly-toothed ; filaments rose-red, Calyx 

 and Corolla both hairy outside. Pod softly pubescent white, 

 young, glabrous when mature, membranous, grey or pale brown, 

 5-6,|: by lin., 8-12-seeded, narrowed to a beak and short stalk, 

 inclehiscent. 



Use : — Used like A. lebbeck. 



457. A. amara, Boiv. h.f.b.i., ii 301. 



Syn.: — Mimosa amara, Roxb. 418. 



Sans.: — Krishna sirish. 



Veru.: — Lulai or lali Mar. ; Moto sarsio (Guz.) ; Thuringi, 

 wunja, suranji, shekram (Tarn.) ; Nallarenga, shekrani, sikkai, 

 narlingi (Tel.); Wusel (Madura, Madras) Bil-kambi (Kan.); 

 Kadsige (Coorg) ; Dosulay (Mai.). 



Habitat : — Western Peninsula. 



A middle-sized, deciduous tree. Wood very hard ; sapwood 

 large white; heart-wood purplish-brown, beautifully mottled with 

 alternate, concentric, light and dark bands. Branchlets, petioles 

 and inflorescence soft yellow- tomentose. Leaf-rachis, with a 

 small gland on the petiole and between the lowest pair of pinnae. 

 Pinme 6-15 ; leaflets linear, 15-24 pair ; peduncles copious, 

 axillary, densely tomentose, crowded at the upper nodes in 

 the axils of much-reduced leaves. Flowers yellow, fragrant, 

 fin. long to the end of stamens. Calyx 5 V n -j funnel-shaped, 

 shortly stalked. Corolla 3 times as long as the Calyx. Calyx- 

 teeth lanceolate. Pod 5-9in. by -f-lin., 6-10-seeded, oapque 

 grey-brown. 



