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292 L. LEGUMiNOS-E. (J. G. Baker.) lAcrocaiyus^ 



distinct midrib nearer the upper side and conspicuous Teinlets. Heads globose, form- 

 ing an ample patent panicle "with compound spreading lower branches. Flowers some- 

 times pentamerous. Corolla ^\ in. Pod distinctly stalked, nearly straight, 1^-2 in^ 

 by 4*1 in., glossy, finely reticulato-venulose, 6-8-seeded. 



126. 



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An erect unarmed tree. Leaves bipinnate. Floivers racemed. Calyx cam- 

 panulate, cleft about half-way down into 5 equal lanceolate teeth, the disk com- 

 pletely investing the tube. Petals oblanceolate, equal, half as long again as the 

 calyx. Stamens 5, exserted, straight, equal ; anthers uniform. Ovary stalked, 

 linear, many-oviiled ; style incurved, xevj short, stigma small terminal. Foi 

 long-stalked, flat, ligulate, many-see 

 DiSTRiB. A single species. 



1. A. A^azlnlfolius, Wight Ic, t. 254 (excluding the leaf)\ Amoit in 

 Jardine Mag, ii. 547 ; Wight III p. 198 ; Bedd. Fl. Sylv. t. 44, A. comhreti- 

 flonu^, Teysin. ^ Binnen,; Walp, Ann. vii, 811. 



NiLGHiBis, Wight, Beddomej Brandts. Sikkim, Hook, fit. — Distrib. Sumatra. 



A large unarmed erect tree, 50 feet high before it forks. Finn(s 8, a foot or more 

 long; leaflets 10-12, nearly sessile, oblong, rather oblique, glabrous, sub coriaceous, 

 3-4 in. long. Flowers in dense simple racemes produced in February, when the l^^"^^ 

 are fallen ; pedicels short, drooping. Calyx \ in. Petals scarlet, slightly imbricated 

 in bud. Filaments twice the length of the corolla. Ovidcs about 15. Pod lo's^g- 

 stalked, thin, flat, with a wing down the upper suture. 



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127. ACACIA, Willd, 



Spinose or prickly shrubs or trees, erect or climbing. Leaves bipino^^^f 

 with minute leaflets. Floicers in globoseheads or cylindrical spikes, herma- 

 phrodite or polygamous, usually pentamerous. Calyx campanulate or funnel- 

 shaped, shortly toothed, Pe^rtZ^ exserted, united in the lower half. '/^^'Jf"f 

 free, indefinite, much exserted \ anthers minute^ not gland-crested. Omry stalled 

 or sessile, many-o\niled ; style filiform, stigma minute capitate. Pod ligiua^^ 

 or oblong, not jointed, usually compressed and dry, dehiscent or indehiscen^ 

 rarely tm'gid or subcylindrical, sutm-es straight or wa\^, not thickened. — DisiKi^- 

 Species 430, the foliiferous groups cosmopolitan in the tropics, the great phyUp' 

 dineous series, which comprises two-thirds of the genus, almost restricted 

 Australia. 



A. vielanoxylon, E. Br., and A. dealbata, Link, Loth Australian species, have 

 extensively planted in the Nilghiris. 



Series I. Cruxnmiferae grlobiferae. Erect shrubs or trees. Spt^^^ 

 long and straight. Stipules spinescent, Floivers in rounded heads. , 



1. A.Farnesiana, Willd.-, Da Prodr. ii. 4G1; pinnro 87^,^^!^.^^ 

 20-40, heads axillarv. nod thick 



short cylindrical glabrous with sti'ai^^ 

 ocarp. Wall. Cat. 5264, excL 1- 5 ^t./ 



JL t. Ajt/ii/. V, fj^. iTiiAiiuaa i ttiiitrr^iiiiiti, j^tiiii, ^ JLiu.tu. JzOft, jLJ^'^y -- / A/»nCl& 



ii. 557. Vachellia Farnesiana, W. ^^ A. Prodr. 272 ; Wt. Ic. t. 300. Ac 

 indica, l^esv. ; DC. P'odr. ii. 462. Famesia odora, Gasjmr in Ltnncea, a^- 

 Litter. 134. 



HiMAIATAS to CeYL 



often planted. 



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zigzaff branches, marked with grey ao^ 



stipular only, seldom over \-\ in. long on the branchle ts. ic(7/-rachises "^y^^-gidlj 

 a minute petiolar gland; pinnge 1-1^ in. long; leaflets green, subglabrou^» 



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