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296 L. LEGUMiNOS^. (J. G. Baker.) lAcacia. 



not very dense. Calyx ^ in., campanulate, glabrous, deeply toothed. Corolla yel- 

 lowish. Pod 3 in. by | in., thin, grey, firm, indehiscent, 5-6-6eeded, narrowed sud- 

 denly into a short stalk. 



13. A. xnodesta, Wall. PL As. JRar. t 130 ; spines in pairs short hooked, 

 pinnse 4-6, leaflets 6-8 obovate, corolla twice the glabrous campanulate calyx, 

 pod straight strap-shaped. Wall. Cat. 6230; Bene, in Jacquem. Vat/. Bot 

 t. 56. Mimosa dumosa, Moxh. Sort. Beng. 40 ; Fl. Ind. ii. 559. M. obovata, 



^ Roxb. FL Ind. ii. 561. 



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Foot of the Western and Central Himaiayas. — Disteib. Afghanistan. 



A middle-sized tree, with grey glabrous branches. Prickles dark-brown, polished. 

 Z€a/-rachises very slender, finely dovrny, with a small gland at the base and one be- 

 tween the uppermost pinnae ; leaflets thin, rigidly subcoriaceous, ^-| in. long, shortly 

 stalked, glabrous, oblique at the base, pale green, obtuse or minutely cuspidate. 

 Spikes 2-3 in. long, not very dense. Corolla -^^ in., greenish. Pod 2-3 in. by l~^^°j 

 6-8-seeded, glossy, drab, glabrous, venulose, narrowed gradually into a snort 

 stalk. 



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14, A. lenticularis, ^am. in WalL Cat. 5244; spines in pirs short 

 hooked, pinnse 4-8, leaflets 12-16 large obovate-oblong, corolla twice the cam- 

 panulate calyx, pod strap-shaped straight or subfalcate. Benth. in Hooh Lona^ 

 Journ. i. 508. 



Foot of Cekthal and Eastern and Western Himalayas, rare, Hamilton, Bom. 



Branches grey, glabrous. Leaves long-petioled, without any gland on the racius, 

 pinnae 3-4 in. long ; leaflets much larger than in any other species, 1-li ^^' ^^^^' 

 obtuse, pale glaucous-green, glabrous, rigidly subcoriaceous, sessile, reduced o'^ \,^ 

 upper side towards the base. Spikes very dense, short-peduncled, 3-4 in. long. ^' 

 rolla ^ in,, grey, campanulate, deeply toothed. Pod 6-8 in. by ^ in., 6-9-seeded, thi^ 

 flat, opaque, brown, venulose, with both sutures slightly thickened and furnished -ffiui 



a narrow wmg 



long 



Prodr. 273; Dalz. ^ Gibs. Bomb. FL 87. A. umbraculata, WalL Cat.o-^:^ 

 A. dumosa, W. 8c A. Prodr. 274. excL svn. Roxb. Mimosa Latronum, i'^^' 



Hort. Bena. 40 ; FL Ind, 



Sitppl 



Westeex Peninsvi^. , g 



Alow tree, forming an umbrella-like top when old, with brown gl^^'*^^® ^^?^-te^ 

 Ynlh^iz^d. prickles 2-2^ in. long, i-f in. thick, connate at the base, -^^{i^^.-^ 

 than the prickles; rachises very slender, glabrous or downy, with a small P^, ^ 

 gland ; leaflets ^~^ in., glabrous, rigidly subcoriaceous. Spikes abundantly^ pro 

 from the close nodes of leafless branches. Corolla ^ in., 3-4 times the ^^^^^® Jgj^ 

 brous campanulate calyx. Pod 1^2 in. by ^f in., opaque, dark brown, 2-4-se 

 veined, Anally dehiscing. 



Series III. Vul^ares. Climbers with copious scattered prickles. Floii^ 

 in copiously panicled globose heads. 



16. A. concinna, DC. Prodr. ii.464 ; pinn« 12-lG, leaflets ^^f^% 

 Tbranous, stipules and bracts cordate-ovate, pod thick succulent ZL TTfl//. 

 shrivelled and rugose with slightly waved sutures. W. 4' A. Prodr. 277 ; ' 

 Cat. 5250, excL B ; Balz. (S- Gibs. Bomb. FL 87. A. Hooperiana, Zipp^L]^ ^ X 



Willd. ; Roxb. Hort. Beng. 41 ; -^^- |j^^ 



Ind. 



ii. 565. M. rugata. Lam. ; DC. Prodr, ii. 431. M. abstergens, Spreng. 

 Prodr. loc. cit. 



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