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INDIAN MEDICINAL PLANTS. 
A large shrub or middle-sized, unarmed, deciduous tree. 
Young shoots, inflorescence and common petiole tomentose or 
pubescent. Leaf-rachis, with a small gland, at the base of the 
petiole, and between the upper pinme ; pinna; 6-12, says 
Brandis ; 8-24, says J. G. Baker. Leaflets 10-80 pair, membra- 
nous, sessile, sensitive, £in. long, cuspidate, straight on the upper 
side, rounded on the lower, -fin. broad. Heads globose on 
clustered erecto-patent peduncles, from the crowded leaflets 
upper nodes. Flowers l-l|in. to extremity of stamens. Calyx 
i-g-in., funnel-shaped, shortly-toothed ; filaments rose-red, Calyx 
and Corolla both hairy outside. Pod softly pubescent white, 
young, glabrous when mature, membranous, grey or pale brown, 
5-6, f by lin., 8-12-seeded, narrowed to a beak and short stalk, 
indehiscent. 
Use : — Used like A. lebbeck. 
457 . A. amarci, Boiv. h.f.b.i., ii 301 . 
Syn.: — Mimosa amara, Roxb. 418. 
Sans.: — Krishna sirish. 
Vern .: — Lulai or lali Mar. ; Moto sarsio (Guz.) ; Thuringf, 
wunja, suranji, shekram (Tam.) ; Nallarenga, shekrani, silckai, 
narlingi (Tel.); Wusel (Madura, Madras) Bil-kambi (Kan.); 
Kadsige (Coorg) ; Dosulay (Mai.). 
Habitat : — Western Peninsula. 
A middle-sized, deciduous tree. Wood very hard ; sapwood 
large white; heart-wood purplish-brown, beautifully mottled with 
alternate, concentric, light and dark bands. Branchlets, petioles 
and inflorescence soft yellow-tomentose. Leaf-rachis, with a 
small gland on the petiole and between the lowest pair of pinmr. 
Pinnae 6-15 ; leaflets linear, 15-24 pair ; peduncles copious, 
axillary, densely tomentose, crowded at the upper nodes in 
the axils of much-reduced leaves. Flowers yellow, fragrant, 
■jin. long to the end of stamens. Calyx 2 ji n -> funnel-shaped, 
shortly stalked. Corolla 3 times as long as the Calyx. Calyx- 
teeth lanceolate. Pod 5-9in. by f-lin., 6-10-seeded, oapque 
grey-brown. 
