Acacia,] l. leguminos^. (J. G. Baker.) 293 



coriaceous. Pedumles crowded in the nodes of fuU-gro-^vn leaves, shorter than the 

 leaves, with the ring of bracts at or near the apex. Heads fragrant, bright yellow, 

 Tinder ^ m. diam. Calyx campanulate, very minute. Corolla i in. ; teeth short. 



Obtuse. I*od 2-3 in. long, ^ in, thick, dull brown, marked with fine close horizontal 



■fitnge. 



2. A. planifrons, 7F. S^ A. Prodr. 276; pinnjB 10-16, leaflets 16-24, 

 heads axillary, pod narrow ligulate turgid with straight sutures. Bedd. FL 

 Jp. 95. A. Faniesiana, Wall. Cat. 5264 I. A. Roxburghii, W. ^ A. Prodr. 

 -^6. A. Campbellii, Aim. Pug. 15. Mimosa ebumea, Roxb. Cor. PI. t. 199; 

 J^llnd. ii. 558, nan Linn. M. horrida, S7n. in Pees Cyclop. 



Wkstern Peninsula. 



A tree, with a flat umbrella-like top, and glabrous branches with grey lenti- 



*cular dots. Spines \-^ in. long, the old ones spreading, ^ in. thick, very pungent. 



Leaves glabrous, very small ; glands of the rachis or minute ; pinnae ^-^ in. long; 



leaflets ^^^ in., rigidly coriaceous, glaucous-green, glabrous. Heads in clusters 



I JJ^°^^the axils of mature branchlets, J-| in, diam.; peduncles very slender, with 



^^f^ involucre below the middle. Corolla ^^ in., yellow, twice the calyx. Pod 



subcylindrical, glabrous, 2-3 in, lone, i-^ in. thick, circinate, rigidly subcoriaceous, 

 inaehiscent. 



3. A. arabica, Willd. ; DC. Prodr. ii. 461 ; pinnie 6-12, leaflets 20-40, 



n^ds axillary, pod straight strap-shaped firm grey-downy with sutures deeply 



indented between each seed. Wall. Cat. 5246 ; W. ^ A. Prodr. 277 ; Bedd. 



^^•Sylv. t. 47 ; Dalz. ^ Gibs. Bomb. Fl. 86. A. vera, Willd. loc. cit. Mimosa 



•^bica, Lam. ; Hoxb. Cor. PL t. 149 ; Hort. Beng. 40 ; Fl. Ind. ii. 667. 



Punjab to Behau, Western Peninsula and Ceylon.— Distrib. Arabia, Egypt, 

 1-rop. Africa, Natal. 



A shrub or tree, with straight finely grey-doM-ny branchlets. Spines \-2 in. 

 .^ong, hirge, white, ascending and pungent on the older branchlets. i^rt/-rachise3 

 Gowny, with several glands; pinnae ^U in. long; leaflets membranous, green, ^-} 

 ■^' glabrous or rather downy. Peduncles short, densely grey-downy, with the bracts 

 aoove the middle, 4-6-nate, the subtending leaves of the upper nodes reduced or 

 ; suppressed ; heads yellow, 4 in. diam. Calyx -^^ in., campanulate. Corolla twice 

 ^e length of the calyx. Pod rigidly coriaceous, subindehiscent, densely persistently 

 grey-downy, 8-12>seeded. \^\ ft. by |-t in., distinctly stalked. 



, f A, ebumea 



lieads 



coriaceous dehiscent glabrous 



ixiuary,pod straight narrow-ligulate ngidlv coriaceous dehiscent giaorous 

 lightly repand sutures. W. k A. Prodr. 276 ; Dak. ^' Gibs. Bomb. FL 



«^ T^^^v repana sutures, vv. Of A. l^oiir. 'Zi 

 1} ^^jd' FL Sylv. 96; Boiss. FL Onent. ii. 637. 



Mimosa 



East Himalayas 



*anistan, Arabia. 



Distrib. 



Branchlets 

 n, Pinn<s 



'lear "®' grey^green. Heads yellow, under A in. diam. from the axils of developed 

 1 .^^; P^'duncles densely grey-downy, with the involucre about the middle. Calyx 

 24 in., funnel-shaped, shortly toothed. Corolla scarcely twice the le 



length of the 



calv-r " "^"^^ ^"^'Pea, snortiy tootnea. uoroua bcarucij i.^»^^ -"^ *v»t,v« ^* v^^. 

 {^' Pod distinctly stalked, 3-6 in. by i in., thin, flat, straight, drab, glossy. 

 ^^^ervenulose, 6^10-seeded. 



leaf! V^' '®'<5^^emontli, Benth. in Hook. Joum. Bot. \. 499; pinnae 6-8, 

 ^th f • "^^^ ^^^^^ axillary, pod thin flat broad-Iigulate dehiscent glabrous 

 straight sutures. 



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