308 LEGUMINOSM. [Adesantheea. 



be confounded with the much more valuable Red Sanders tree (Ptero- 

 carpus santalinus), the wood ' of which is also used for this purpose* 

 The scarlet seeds are used as weights, and are often made into 

 neoklaceg. 



67. PIPTADENIA, Benth. ; Fl. Brit, Ind. ii, 289. 



Erect trees, unarmed or prickly. Leaves bipinnate. Flowers 

 small, in dense spikes, hermaphrodite, 5-merous. Calyx campannlate, 

 shortly 5-toothed, Petals 5, valvate, equal, lanceolate, cohering at 

 the base. Stamens 10, fiee, as long as the corolla ; anthers tipped 

 with a deciduous gland. Ovary stalked, many-ovuled ; style-iiW- 

 form ; stigma terminal. Pod long, thin, strap-shaped, flat. Seeds 

 brown, compressed. — Species about 40, nil of which, except the single 

 Indian repi-esentative and one in New Guinea, inhabit tropical regions 

 of America and Africa. 



P. oudhensis. Brand. For. Fl. 168 ; F. B. I. ii, 289 ; Duthie in An?!. B- 

 Bot. Gard. Calc. ix, 33, t. 43. Adenanthera oudhensis, J. L. Stewart, Mss- 

 — Vern. Qenti, gainti (Oudh). 



A small tree, glabrous except the inflorescence ; harh greyish or reddish- 

 brown, rough with flat exfoliating woody scales ; inner bark red, fibrous. 

 Branches armed with large compressed conical prickles ; branchlets 

 drooping. Leaves abruptly bipinnate ; pinnce 4, on long stalks, each of 

 a single pair of leaflets, primary and secondary petioles with a large flat 

 circular gland at the base of each pair of pinnae ; leaflets 2-4 in. long and 

 lf-3^ in, broad, ovate-rhomboid or reniform, entire, subcoriaceous ; 

 veins prominent on both surfaces, anastomosing and forming loops with- 

 in the margin. Flowers minute, greenish- yellow, in dense cylindric 

 spikes 1-3 in. long and arranged in axillary panicles shorter than the 

 leaves. Calyx campanulate, with 5 shallow teeth. Petals thrice the 

 calyx, lanceolate, fleshy. Stamens free, slightly exserted, filaments 

 attached to the outer basal edge of an annular disk ; anthers dorsifixed, 

 broadly oval, terminal glands globose. Ovary stalked ; style filiform, 

 overtopping the stamens. Pod stalked, 8-12 in. long, and about ^ in. 

 broad. Seeds 15-20, compressed, brown. 



On the banks of streams in the northern and hilly portion of the Gonda 

 district in Oudh (E. Thompson, and Inayat Khan), also found in the 

 Kumaon Terai by Mr, A. F. Broun. Flowers in April, This very 

 local tree was first discovered in 1871 by Mr, Eichard Thompson. Inayat 

 Khan, who found the tree growing abundantly within the Nepal terri- 

 tory, states that the characteristic broad-based prickles occur only on 

 the branches. The largest trunk seen by him measured only 3^ ft. in 

 circumference. 



68. FROSOPIS, Linn. ; Fl. Brit. Ind. ii, 287, 



Erect trees or shrubs with scattered prickles. Xeaye-^ bipinnate, 

 with small narrow leaflets. Flowers minute, in narrow snikes or 



