. Indian trees : an account of trees, shrubs, woody climbers, bamboos, and palms indigenous or commonly cultivated in the British Indian Empire. Trees. 250 XLV. LEGUMINOS^ [Acrocarpiis campanulate^ teeth 5, equal. Petals equal, slightly imbricate in bud. Stamens 5, long exserted, anthers uniform versatile. Pod stalked, thin, flat, with numerous seeds. (On account of the petals being only, slightly imbricate, nearly valvate, sometimes jjlaced under Mimosem.) Sikkim, ascending to 4,000 ft., Western Dwars, Assam, Cliittagong. Pegu Yoma, Upper Burma. Western Ghats from South Kanara southwards, asc
. Indian trees : an account of trees, shrubs, woody climbers, bamboos, and palms indigenous or commonly cultivated in the British Indian Empire. Trees. 250 XLV. LEGUMINOS^ [Acrocarpiis campanulate^ teeth 5, equal. Petals equal, slightly imbricate in bud. Stamens 5, long exserted, anthers uniform versatile. Pod stalked, thin, flat, with numerous seeds. (On account of the petals being only, slightly imbricate, nearly valvate, sometimes jjlaced under Mimosem.) Sikkim, ascending to 4,000 ft., Western Dwars, Assam, Cliittagong. Pegu Yoma, Upper Burma. Western Ghats from South Kanara southwards, ascending to 4,000 ft. JNilgiri, Anamalai and Pahii hills. Fl. , with or before the young foliage, which is red. A supposed second species of the Ind. Arcliip. possibly is a Mezoneurum. 8. HARDWICKIA, Eoxb. ; Fl. Brit. Ind. ii. 270. Erect unarmed trees. Leaflets few, coriaceous. Fl. small, bisexual, in panicled racemes. Sepals petaloid, usually 5 rarely 4. Petals none. Stamens twice the number of sepals, anthers short, versatile. Ovary with 1 or 2 ovules. Pod dry. Seed 1, exalbuminous. Species 3, one in Africa. 1. 1. H. binata, Roxb. Cor. PL t. 209; Bedd. Fl. Sylv. t. 26. Vern. Anjan, ... Hind. Mar. ; Yepi, Narijepi, Tel. ; Aclia, Tam. ; Ka- mara^ Karachi^ Kan. A large gregarious tree. Branchlets slender, droop- ing, heart-wood dark red, extremely hard. Leaflets 2, obtuse, obliquely ovate to trapezoid with 4-5 arcuate longitudinal nerves. PI. greenish-yellow. Eacemes lax, in ample axillary and terminal panicles. Pod flat, coriaceous, oblong-lanceolate, with parallel long- itudinal veins, the seed near the end. Gregarious but local in patches, in the drier districts of the Western Peninsula, south of the Soane river. Fl. R. S. Fr. C. S. Seedlings make a tap root up to 8 ft. long, and probably longer, to reach a moist underground stratum. ^^2. H. pinnata, Roxb. Fl. Ind. ii. 423; Bedd. Fl. Sylv. t. 255. Vern. Madayan Sampirani, Tam. ; Koda pala, Mai. / A large tree, heart-w
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