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Rh dark green, nearly glabrous and shining above, pale beneath. Panicles large. Heads pale yellow, peduncled, 2/5-½in. diam. brown in buds, generally 1-4 together. Pod 4-6 by 7/10-1 1/5in., 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, Pachumba).

Syn : — Mimosa pennata, ''Lin. Roxb''. 424.

Vern : — Agla, awal (Kumaon) ; Kumdaree (Kol) ; Arar (Kharwar) Biswool (H.) ; shembi (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, ¼in. 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 ⅛-1/5in. long, 30-60 pair, narrow-linear, overlapping, making each pinna like the feather of a bird. Flower-heads 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 ¾-1½in., 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. (DYMOCK.)

Syn :— Mimosa Sirissa, Roxb. 417.

Sans : — Shirish.

Vern :— Siris, sirin, mathirsi, lasrin, kalsis tantia (H.) ;