the Indian name of a tree in the Northern Circars of Hindostan. It grows, says Dr Roxburgh, to be a pretty large tree, is a native of most parts of the coast, chiefly of low lands at a considerable distance from the sea, and may be only a variety of propolis ficicera, for the thorns are in this sometimes wanting; flowers during the cold and beginning of the hot seasons. Trunk tolerably erect, bark deeply cracked, dirty ash colour. Branches irregular, very numerous, forming a pretty large shady head. Prickles scattered over the small branches; in some trees wanting. Leaves alternate, generally bipinnate, from two to three inches long; pinnae from one to four, when in pairs opposite, and have a gland between their insertions. Leaflets opposite, from seven to ten pair, obliquely lanced, smooth, entire, about half an inch long, and one-sixth broad. Stipules none. Spikes several, axillary, filiform, nearly erect. Bracts minute, one-flowered, falling. Flowers numerous, small, yellow, fimbriate, approximated. Calyx below, five-toothed. Filaments united at the base. Anthers incumbent, a white gland on the apex of each, which falls off soon after the flower expands. Style crooked. Stigma simple. Legume long, pendulous, not inflated. Seeds many, lodged in a brown mealy substance.

The pod of this tree is the only part used. It is about an inch in circumference, and from six to twelve long; when ripe, brown, smooth, and contains, besides the seeds, a large quantity of a brown mealy substance, which the natives eat; its taste is sweetish and agreeable; it may therefore be compared to the Spanish algaroba, or locust tree. (Ceratonia siliqua, Linn.)

In compliance with Dr Komig's opinion, Dr Roxburgh calls this tree a propolis; but as he thinks the antheral glands give it a claim to the genus adenanthus, we have retained the Indian name till its botanical classification shall be ascertained by those who have greater authority in the science than we lay claim to.