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298 I'. LEGUMixoSiE. (J. G. Baker.) [Acacia. 



Vab. 1. canescens, Grab, in Wall. Cat. 5256, sp. ; brandies and leaf-rachises densely- 

 pubescent, leaflets slightly downy below. A. csesia, Wall. Cat. 5253 A. A. ambly- 

 carpa, GraL in Wall. Cat. 5260. A. eonclnna, Wall. Cat. 6250 D? A. tomentella, 



Zi^yp* ; Miq. FL Ind. Bat. i. 13. 



Var. 2. arrophula, Don ; Wall. Cat. 5257, sp. ; pinnae more numerous, leaflets 

 duller in colour and not so firm in texture, panicle more elongated and compound, 

 peduncles often 4-6-nate. — Eastern Himalayas. 



Vab. 3. pluricapitata, Steud. ; Benth. in Hook, Lond. Journ. Bot. 1842, 516, sp.; 

 pinnae 40-80 not more than 1^-1^ in. long, leaflets very narrow and crowded, petiolar 

 glands much smaller, panicle elongated sometimes a foot long above the leaves, pe- 

 duncle often 6-8-nate, heads smaller, A. polycephala, Grah. in Wall. Cat, 5255, non 

 DC. — Martaban, Penang, and Malacca. — Distrib. Malay isles. 



IMPERFECTLY KNO"WN SPECIES. 



A. WiGwrUy Baker. In Dr. Wight's collection are specimens without frmt of a 

 well-marked species near ^. ^raJfca,' from Travancore and Tinnevelly, with S^^^^ 

 branchlets and leaf-rachises, large straight dark-brown spines, 2-8 pinnse, 1 

 oblique oblong glabrous subcoriaceous leaflets ^-| in. long, short ^^^^^^?3 Ivs 

 peduncles with the involucre below the middle, funnel-shaped shortly-toothed caiyx 



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minute 



128. AZaBZZZXA. Durazz. 



Large trees. Leaves bipinnate. Flowers in the Indian species in globose hea f 

 sessile or pedicellate, usually pentamerous and all hermaphrodite. J^^% 

 campanulate or funnel-shaped, distinctly toothed. Corolla fiinnel-shap^f 

 petals firmly united below the middle. Stamens indefinite, monadelphous at tne 

 base, filaments several times the length of the corolla ; anthers minute, no 

 gland-crested. Ovan/ sessile or shortly-stalked; style filiform, stigma cap- 

 tate minute. Fod large, thin, flat, strap-shaped, straight, indehiscent orsu^ 

 indehiscent, continuous within, the sutures not thickened. — DistbIB. bp^^ 

 25-30, spread through the Tropics of the Old World. 



The Australian A. lophantha, which resembles A. amara in the leaves but has 

 flowers in spikes, is naturalised on the Nilghiris. 



* Leaflets ohlong, at least \~-^ in, broad. 



1. A. Ziebbek, Benth. in Hook. Lond. Jo7irn. 1844, 87; ^^^.f ® |j)), j' 

 obtuse, heads not panicled, calvx pedicellate funnel-shaped. Dalz, Sf ^^^^'-rsriU • 

 FL 88 ; Bedd. PL Sylv. t. 53 ; 'Boiss. FL Orient, ii. 639. Acacia Lebbek, ^^^^'^ 

 DC. Prodr. ii. 466. A. speciosa, Willd. ; DC. Prodr. ii. 467; W. ^ fj^ C((t. 



Mimosa speciosa, Jacq. Ic. t. 198. Acacia Sirissa, Ham. in Wm^ • . 

 Mimosa Sirissa, Roxh. Hort. Beng. 40 ; FL Ind. ii. 544. Albizzia i^ 

 folia, Boivin ; Miq. FL Ind. Bat. i. 22. 



Tropical Himalayas, ascending to 5000 ft. in the Central Provinces ^"^^J^^^^ii 

 in Khasia ; through India proper and Ceylon to Bibma and TenasseriM. 

 Malay isles, China, N. Australia, Trop, Africa. . j^jjd fv 



A tall tree, without prickles. Leaves with glabrous or downy racmses, ^^^^ 

 large gland near the base of the main petiole ; pinnse 4-8, with or without g^ .^^ 

 between the lowest ; leaflets short-stalked, rigicfiy subcoriaceous, oblique* ^^^ ^, 

 long, glabrous or finely grey-downy. Heads many-flowered, short-pedunclea, - .^^^ 

 gether from the crowded upper nodes on downy erecto-patent peduncles. ^^^ ^p^ 

 downy. Corolla greenish-yellow, twice the calyx, the teeth short, lanceolat . 

 strap-shaped, firm, yellow-brown, ^-I ft. by \-\\ in., 6-10-seeded. 



275. 



5265. 



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