. Indian trees : an account of trees, shrubs, woody climbers, bamboos, and palms indigenous or commonly cultivated in the British Indian Empire. Trees. Parkia] XLV. LEGUMINOS^ 263 originally American, is a large unarmed shrub or low tree; pinnse 4-8 pair; leaflets 10-15 pair, ^ in. long. Fl. white, in dense globose heads, bisexual, mixed with slender bracteoles, broader at the top. Peduncle thick, woody in fruit, bearing numerous pods, which are flat, stipitate, early dehiscent, linear, 5-7 in. long; seeds numerous, shining, lenticular, made into ornaments. 8. MIMOSA, Linn.; Fl. Brit. Ind. ii.
. Indian trees : an account of trees, shrubs, woody climbers, bamboos, and palms indigenous or commonly cultivated in the British Indian Empire. Trees. Parkia] XLV. LEGUMINOS^ 263 originally American, is a large unarmed shrub or low tree; pinnse 4-8 pair; leaflets 10-15 pair, ^ in. long. Fl. white, in dense globose heads, bisexual, mixed with slender bracteoles, broader at the top. Peduncle thick, woody in fruit, bearing numerous pods, which are flat, stipitate, early dehiscent, linear, 5-7 in. long; seeds numerous, shining, lenticular, made into ornaments. 8. MIMOSA, Linn.; Fl. Brit. Ind. ii. 291. Herbs or shrubs, rarely trees ; 1. in many species sensitive. Pinnge stipeilate. n. in dense globose heads. Petals 4 or 5, rarely 3 or 6. Stamens generally twice the number of petals and more than twice their length. Pod linear or oblong, the valves separating (entire or in transverse joints) from the persis- tent sutures. Species 300, mostly American, a few in Asia and Africa. 1. M. rubicaulis, Lam.—Syn. M. octandra, Roxb. Cor. PL t. 200. Vern. HaJerOj Sind ; Agla^ Eil, AUa, Al Eal, Hind.; Vundra, Tel. A straggling prickly shrub, pubescent, branches, petioles and peduncles armed with short curved sharp prickles ; stem at- taining 5 in. diam. Pinnse 3-12 pair, the lowest often not exactly opposite; leaflets 6-15 pair, obliquely oblong, the midrib lateral. PL tetramerous, pink, in fasciculate pedunculate heads. Pod stipitate, glabrous, curved, 3-4 in. long, separating in square joints from the sutural frame, sutures generally without prickles. Seeds 6-10. Common in most parts of India, except the arid region ; in the outer Himalaya ascending to 4,000 ft. Fl. K. S. Wood, used for gunpowder charcoal. 2. M. hamata, "Willd.; Surat, Deccan and east side of the Western Peninsula; pinnse 3-4 pair; leaflets 6-10 pair, midrib near the middle of leaflet. Sutures armed with numerous hooked prickles. Specimens of this, from Bombay, Fig. 114.—Mimosa rubicaulis. Lam. ^. have be
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