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37. legumtnosj: 



145 



Wostern Peninsula and Coylon. In tlio forests of tlio Konkan and 

 North Kanara. The characteristic fruit of this species is carried down 

 the Kalanadi during the rainy season and thrown up on tlie sea-shore 

 near Karw^r. Fl. H. b^. Fr. ripe Auf^.-Sept. A large evergreen tree. 

 Wood red, hard, heavy and close-grained. Numerous wavy bands of 

 soft h'glit-coloured tissae alternate with bands of firmer tissue in which 

 are visible the fine medullary rays. 



31 HARDWICKIA, Roxb. 



Trees. Leaves abruptly pinnate, leaflets few. Flowers small, 

 abundant in racemose ])anicles. Sepals 5, petaloid ; disk subbasal. 

 Petals 0. Stamens 10, included or exsorted, alternately sho.cter. 

 Ovary sessile, 2-oviiled ; style filiform, stigma capitate. Pod dry, 

 1-seeded near top. 



H, binata, Roxb. Fl. Ind. 11. 423 ; Fl. Br. L 2/0 ; Dalz. & Gibs. 

 Bomb. Fl. 83; Bedd. Fl. Sylv. t. 26; Brandis For. Fl. 162. Anjan, M. 

 Kamra, kardclii, K. 



In the dry forests of the presidency ; a gregarious tree, but very local, 

 common on the trap of the Satpudas in Khandesh ; also in the Belgaum 

 district. A small forest of this species is found in the Ranebennm- taluka 

 of Dharwar. Fl. 0. S. Fr. Apl.-May. Bark dark-coloured rough with 

 iiTCgular cracks. Sapwood small, white ; heautwood eictremely hard, dark- 

 red, cross and close-grained. Pores moderate-sized filled with resin. 

 Med. rays fine, numerous , undulating, crossed by scanty, fine, concenteic 

 lines. Weighs 82 lbs. to the cub. ft. Perhaps the hardest and heaviest 

 wood, in India ; used for building and ornamental work. The bark yields 

 a strong fibre. The leaves are in great request as cattle fodder. 



35. SARACA, Linn. 



Trees. Leaves abruptly pinnate, coriaceous. Flowers in dense 

 corymbose axillary panicles. Calyx-tube long, cylindrical with a disk 

 at the summit, limb 4-cleft. Petals 0. Stamens 3-8, exserted. 

 Ovary many ovuled with a stalk produced beyond the disk ; style 

 long filiform, stigma capitate. Pod oblong, woody 2-valved. 



S. indica, Linn. Mant. 98; Fl. Br. I. 2. 271; Bodd. Fl. Sylv. t. 57 ; 

 Brandis For. FL 166. Jonesia Asoca, Uoxb. Fl. Ind. 11. 218 ; Dalz. & 

 Oibs. Bomb. Fl. 82. Ashoh,jassundie, Vern. Ashoha, kusge, akshath, K. 



From the Central and Eastern Himalayas to Ceylon and Malacca. In 

 the evergreen forests of the Konkan and North Kanara, common, some- 

 times planted. Fl. M( li.-Apl. Fr. Aug.- Sept. A moderate-sized tree. 

 One of the sacred trees of the Hindus ; its flowers are much used in 

 decorating temples. Bark dark-coloured, rough with raised horizontal 

 lines of lenticels, inner bark thick, deep red. Wood light, reddish browa, 

 soft. Pores moderate- si/^ed in radial and oblique lines. Med. rays indistinct, 

 crossed by fine w^avy concentric lines. Weighs 58 lbs. to the cub. ft. 



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