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USEFUL PLANTS OF THE DISTRICT OF LAKI1JMPUR. 
Dibrugarh. No. 1. 
Local name. — Hambama. f£ Peach.” 
Distrib. — Cultivated in the cooler parts of India and in all cool 
countries. Probably native of China. 
Very commonly cultivated in cottage gardens. Though we never saw it far from cultiva- 
tion we were interested to see how much at home the poach is in Upper Assam. It will 
be remembered that De Candolle in his Origin of Cultivated Plants ** concludes that the 
peach is a native of China and that the Chinese carried it into Kashmir, Bokhara and 
Persia : with the last of these countries it is generally associated in the minds of Europeans, 
90. P. triflora Roxb. F. B. L ii, 315. 
P. trifolia Eoxb. FI. Xnd. ii, 501. 
Dibrugarh. No. 63. 
Local name. — Nara bogri. 
Distrib. — Burma also in China. 
A small tree in cottage gardens. The fruit is'glahrous and red when ripe. 
XXXV. LEGUMINOSAE. 
SUB-FAMILY— MIMOSOIDEAE. 
74. Leucaena Benth. 
91. L. glauca Benth. F. B. I. ii, 200; Eng. & Prantl iii, 3, 115; 
Beng. PI. 455 ; D. E. P. iv, 632. 
Jokai. No. 182. 
Local name. — Toira kadam. 
Distrib. — Probably indigenous only in Tropical America. Now 
common in India, tropical Asia and Africa. 
A low tree or shrub with 2-pinnafce leaves and whitish flowers in dense globose heads. 
The bark is eaten for internal pain. The wood is hard. The young fruits and ripe seeds 
are edible. It has been recently pointed out that a substitute for coffee can be made from 
the ripe seeds. 
SUB-FAMILY— CAESALP1NI01DEAE. 
75. Tamarind Linn. 
93. T. indica Linn. F. B. I. ii, 273; Eng. & Prantl iii, 3, 
139 ; Beng. PI. 444; D. E. P. vi, 3, 404 ; Pharmacog. Ind. i, 532. 
Dibrugarh. No. 54. 
Local name. — Imll. “ Tamarind.” 
Distrib. — Throughout India and the Tropics. 
A beautiful tree with graceful pinnate leaves which sleep at night; and fragrant flowers. 
The fruit has a brittle shell which encloses the pulp and the seeds. Common throughout 
the district. The pulp of the fruit is sold in the bazars and used medicinally for various 
purposes (see Amorphophallus ), There are many superstitions about this tree in which 
ghosts are supposed to abide. 
