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37. LEGUMINOS>T<:. 



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A. pavonina, Linn.; DO. Prod. II. 44G ; Fl. Br. I. 2. 287; Bcdd. FI. 

 Sylv. t. 46 ; Brandis For. Fl. 1G8. Red Wood. Munjuti, K. ; Fa/, thorla- 

 gitn]^ M. ; Bari-<juincJbi, Guz. 



Bengal, Soutliorn India and Burma. In the moist forests oftho 

 Koukan and Noi'th Kanara, nowhere abundant. Fl. Mch.-May. Fr. 

 Aug.-Oct. Wood with a liard, red, durable, close-grained, strong heart- 

 wood, used for house building and cabinet making. Scarlet Beeds used 

 for jeweller's weights and strung into necklaces. 



41. PROSOPIS, Linn. 



Prickly trees. Leaves bipinnate, pinnoc usually 2 pairs, leaflets 

 7-10 pairs obliquely oblong, cuspidate, 3-nerved. Flowers in sleuder 

 panicled spikes, small, yellow, in the axils of ovat'3 membranous bracts. 

 Calyx campanulate with 5 short teeth. Corolla with 5 ligulate petals, 

 free or connate below. Stamens 10, free, anthers tipped with a gland. 

 Ovary stalked, ovules numerous ; style filiform, stigma minute. Pod 

 coriaceous, iadehisceni, linear, pendulous, mesocarp spongy, septate 

 between the seeds. 



P. spicigera, Linn. ; DC. Prod. 11, 446; Fl. Br. 1. 2. 288 ; Bedd Fl. 

 Sylv. t. 56 ; Brandis For. Fl. 169 ; Dalz. & Gibs. Bomb. Fl. 84 Sumri, 

 hamra, Guz. ; Sheyna^ Saunders savcindal, Deccan. ; Kandi^ Sind. 



Punjab, Sind and the Western Peninsula. In the dry forests of the Leccan 

 and Guzerat, and in Sind near the Indus river. Fl. Feb.-Apl. Fr. May- 

 Aug. A moderate sized thorny tree. Bark grey, rough, with deep fissures. 

 Sap wood large ; heartwood purplish-brown, very hard. Pores small to 

 moderate, included in narrow concentric bands of resinous tissue. 

 Medullary rays short, fine, wavy. One of the sacred trees of the Hindus, 

 Pods largely consumed as food in the Punjab, Gujarat and the Deccan. A 

 valuable fuel with great heating power. 



42. DICHROSTACHYS, DC. 



A spinous shrub or small tree. Leaves bipinnate, pinnas 8-10 

 pairs, with stipitate glands at the base of each pair. Flowers 

 minute in axillary, pedunculate spikes, upper flowers of spike bisexual, 

 yellow, lower white, purple or rose-coloured, neuter, with long exserted 

 filiform staminodes. Calyx minute, campanulate, 5-toothed. Corolla 

 oblong, with 5 strap-shaped petals. Stamens 10, frea, exserted an- 

 thers tipped with a globose stipitate gland. Ovary sessile, many 

 ovu led ; style filiform, stigma capitate. Pod linear, twisted, indehis- 

 cent or irregularly opening. 



D. cinerea, W. k A. Prod. 271 ; Fl. Br. I. 2. 28^ ; Bedd. Fl. Sylv. t. 

 185 ; Brandis For. Fl. 171 ; Dalz. & Gibs. Bomb. Fl. 84. ViLrtuU, Vern. ; 

 SigamkaUg M. 



Common on the dry stony hills of the Deccan, cultivated in North 

 Kanara and the Konkan, North- Western Provinces, W. Peninsula S. 

 and C. India and Ceylon. Fl. hot season. Heartwood red, very hard 



