Botanical Name - Caesalpinia sepiaria

----- C. sepiaria, Roxb. ; F. B. I. II-256. Brandi's Ind. Trees, 246. Gamble's Ind. Timbers, 267. Vern. Kilgach, Hind. Mar. Chillar, Mar. The " Mysore-thorn."

----- A straggling thorny shrub, pubescent or downy ; prickles strong, re-curved or less frequently curved upwards. Bark yellowish-white, corky, with corky excrescences, bearing strong thorns. Leaves 9-16 in. long ; Pinnae 6-10 pairs, 2-4 in. long. Leaflets 8-12 pairs on each pinna, opposite, 1/2-3/4 by 1/5-1/3 in., oblong, very obtuse, green and glabrous above, glaucous beneath, minutely petioluled. Flowers bright yellow in simple racemes about 1 ft. long. Calyx 3/8-1/2 in., more or less pubescent. Corolla 1/2 in. Filaments densely woolly in the lower half. Pod 2 1/2-4 by 1 in. somewhat woody, glabrous obliquely cuspidate, tardily dehiscent. Seeds 4-8, ovoid 4 in. long, rather compressed, smooth, mottled brown and black.

----- Not uncommon, widely distributed ; found in all parts of Hyderabad in hedges and open bushy places. When planted as a fence around fields it becomes a splendid impenetrable hedge. In aurangabad many of the old villages fortifications were once surrounded with such dense hedges, traces of which are still to be seen. Flowers at the end of the hot weather and Fruit during the rain.