. Indian trees : an account of trees, shrubs, woody climbers, bamboos, and palms indigenous or commonly cultivated in the British Indian Empire. Trees. Pig. 108. Ceesalpinia Bonducella, Fleming. Fr. ^. 246 XLV. LEGUMINOS^ A. Face of pods armed with sharp prickles. 1. C. Bonducella, Fleming; Prain in Journ. As. Sec. Beng. m, 226.—Syn. C. Bonduca, Kurz F. Fl. i. 406. The Fever nut. Vern. Kaiija, Karanjii^ Katli Karaiij, Hind.; JSTata, Sundrib.; Bagni^ Sonth.; Sagar- gota. Mar. ; Gatsakaij Tel. ; Gazzaja, Kan. ; Gajjij Tam.; Kalein^ Burm. A large prickly scandent or straggling shrub. L. pubescent
. Indian trees : an account of trees, shrubs, woody climbers, bamboos, and palms indigenous or commonly cultivated in the British Indian Empire. Trees. Pig. 108. Ceesalpinia Bonducella, Fleming. Fr. ^. 246 XLV. LEGUMINOS^ A. Face of pods armed with sharp prickles. 1. C. Bonducella, Fleming; Prain in Journ. As. Sec. Beng. m, 226.—Syn. C. Bonduca, Kurz F. Fl. i. 406. The Fever nut. Vern. Kaiija, Karanjii^ Katli Karaiij, Hind.; JSTata, Sundrib.; Bagni^ Sonth.; Sagar- gota. Mar. ; Gatsakaij Tel. ; Gazzaja, Kan. ; Gajjij Tam.; Kalein^ Burm. A large prickly scandent or straggling shrub. L. pubescent, pinnae 6-8 pair, leaflets opposite, mucronate, 6-10 pair. Stipules cut into large segments. Fl. yel- low, in axillary many-fld. racemes, bracts linear-lanceo- late, spreading, longer than buds; filaments rusty- tomentose. Pod coriaceous, obliquely elliptic, 2-3 by .l|-2 in. Seeds 2-3, lead-coloured, shining. Naturalized throughout India, to 2,500 ft. in Kumaon. Indigenous in the Sundriban, m Burma and on the Andamans. Fl. E. S. A good hedge plant.—Ceylon. On the sea coast in the Malay Archipelago and other tropical countries. 2. Closely allied, . united with it by Wight & Arn. C. Bonduc, Eoxb., naturalized in the Western Peninsula. L. nearly glabrous, no stipules, bracts erect. 3. C. Minax, Hance, var. hurmanica, Prain, Fort^ Stedman and Saga, South Shan States, Upper Burma. (C. Minax is a Chinese species.) A diffuse shrub. Branches at first downy, afterwards glabrous; pinnge 10- 12. Leaflets 6-10 pair. Stipules subulate, rigid, 2-3-fid. Fl. white, in long peduncled racemes, which are sparingly branched near base; bracts verv large, enveloping the young fl. Pod 4 by 2 in., with j)ubescent bristles. B. Pods unarmed, dry, finally dehiscent. 4. C. Sappan, Linn.; Bedd. Manual Vern. Bakam, Hind.; Bakapu, Tel.; Pattcmga, Kan.; Patunga, Sappangu^ Tam.; Teinnyet., Burm. A small or middle-sized thorny tree, heart-wood red, yields a valuable dye. L. nearly glabrous; pinns
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