N. 0. LEGUMIN0S.S5. 
509 
dark green, nearly glabrous and shining above, pale beneath. 
Panicles large. Heads pale yellow, peduncled, f-Jin. diam. 
brown in buds, generally 1-4 together. Pod 4-6 by T 7 0 ljin., 
strap-shaped, dark-brown, dehiscent finely pubescent, hardly- 
stalked. Seeds 8-12. 
Use : — ‘The flowers are used by Santal women in deranged 
courses.’ (Rev. A Campbell, Santal Mission, Paclnnnba). 
453. A. pennata, Willd. h.f.b.i., ii . 297. 
Syn : — Mimosa pennata, Lin. Roxb. 424. 
V ern : — Agla, awal (Kumaon) ; Kumdaree (Kol) ; Arar 
(Kharwar) Biswool (H.) ; sbembi (Bomb.) ; Undaru (Santal) ; 
Arfu (Nepal) ; Tolrik (Lepcha.) 
Habitat : — The Central and Eastern Himalayas, Behar, 
Eastern and Western Peninsulas. 
A large climbing shrub. Bark reddish brown, Jin. thick, 
with horizontal cracks. Wood porous, moderately hard ; reddish 
brown prickles on branchlets petioles and inflorescence ; branch- 
lets and petioles pubescent. Pinnae 20-40 pair, leaflets J-Jin. 
long, 30-60 pair, narrow-linear, overlapping, making each 
pinna like the feather of a bird. Flower-beads white or pale 
yellow, 4-8 together in the axils of leaves or bracts, forming 
large racemiform panicles, bracts linear minute. Pod shining, 
very thin, straight, strap-shaped, glabrous, dehiscent, 6-8 by 
f-ljin., distinctly stalked, 8-12-seeded, the sutures rather raised, 
slightly repand. 
Uses : — In the Concan, the leaf-juice mixed with milk is given 
to infants who suffer from indigestion of milk with black stools. 
In bleeding from the gums the leaves are chewed with cumin 
and sugar, they are also rubbed to a pulp and mixed with 
cow’s milk, cumin and sugar, as a remedy for scalding of the 
urine. (DymockA 
454. Albizzia Lebbeck, Benth. h.f.b. i., ii. 298. 
Syn Mimosa Sirissa, Roxb. 417. 
Sans : — Shirish. 
Vern Siris, sirin, mathirsi, lasrin, kalsis tantia (H.) ; 
