PAEKIN802TIA.] LEGUMINOS^. 3G3 



longer than the flowers, slender, ascending, jointed at the top; bracts 

 lanceolate rusty-tomentose. Floicers deflexed. Calyx f-| iu. long, 

 pTthescent, lobes oblong or spathulate. Petals bright-yellow. Stamens 

 exserted, filaments woolly towards the base. Pods pendulous, 3-5 in. 

 long and about 1 in. wide, oblong, obliquely cuspidate, rather woody, 

 glabrons, late in dehiscing. Seeds 4i-8, ovoid, compressed, smooth, mot- 

 tled brown and black. 

 Dehra ^vin and in the Sab-Himalayan tracts of Eohilkhand, N. Oudh and 

 Gorakhpur, usually in swampy ground. Disteib. Warm valleys of the 

 Outer W. Himalaya up to 6,000 ft., and throughout India to Ceylon 

 extending to Burma, the Malay Penins., China and Japan, Flowers 

 March to June The bark is much used for tanning in some places. 

 It makes an excelleot and impenetrable fence-plant. 



■C. Coriaria, Willd , is the Divi-divi or American sumach. It was intro- 

 duced into India about 70 years ago. Its pods are very rich in ' tannin. 

 For further particulars see Watt's Dictionary.— C.pulc7ie?-rima, Swartz, 

 a large shrnb with handsome orange and yellow flowers, is cultivated in 

 gardens all over India. It is known as Icrishna-cliura in Bengal. Its 

 native country is not known for certain. 



Poniciana regia, Bojer, a very handsome tree, indigenous in Madagascar, 

 is cultivated in gardens over the greater part of India for the sake of 

 its beautiful fcliage and gorgeous scarlet and yellow flowers. P.elata, 

 Linn., a small tree with handsome yellow flowers, is found wild in S. 

 India and in Trop. Africa. It is planted near villages in the Merwara 

 district of Eajputana, and the foliage is used as cattle fodder. 



62, PABKINSONIA, Linn. ; Fl. Brit. Ind. ii, 260. 



Spiny shrubs, or small trees. Leaves abruptly bipinnate ; main 

 rachis very short, secondary ones elongated ; leaflets minnte. 

 Flowers yellow, in short racemes. Calyx deeply cleft, tvith a subbasal 

 disk, the divisions lanceolate, subequal and slightly imbricate or val- 

 vate. Petals exserted, broad, the upper with a long claw. Stamens 

 10. included, villose ; anthers versatile. Ovary short-stalked, many 

 ovuled ; style filiform ; stigma terminal. Pod turbid, dry, monili- 

 form, finailv dehiseiug. Species about 7, mostly Trop. American, 

 one in S. Africa. 



P. aculeata. Lirin. Sp. PI. 375 ; W. SfA. Prod. 2S4 ; F. B. I. ii, 260 ; Watt 



JE, P.— Vern. Vilayati hihar. 



A glabrous shrub or small tree, armed with sharp woody spines, 

 which represent the primary rachis of a bipinnate leaf and have 2-6 

 pinnae congested in their axils. Pinnce 6-12 in. long, the rachis much 

 flattened, so that when the minute oblanceolate leaflets have fallen or 

 are not developed they resemble the phyllodes of an acacia. Racemes 

 lax, shorter than the leaves ; pedicels slender, erecto-patent. Corolla 

 about i in. long. Pod 3-4 in. long. 



