64 JOURNAL, BOMB A Y NA TURAL HISTORY SOCIETY, Vol. XIX 



Trees with Ai.teuxate Stipulate Compound Leaves. 

 Petals Unumted. 



Pod bearing. 



Leaves Bipinnate 



Flowers Minute. 



Frosopls spicigrera, 



Jand. 



Leguminos^. 

 F. B, I. ii. 288. 

 The Plains. 



medium size, with extremely long tap root 

 scattered broad conical nearly straight, prickles ^-| 

 in. long ; pinnte 4, 1-2 in. long with a gland between 

 each pair, leaflets 8-12 pairs, \-h in. long ; flowers 

 yellow, in spikes, 2-3 in- long, calyx minute 5 toothed, 

 petals 5, stamens 10 ; pods, 5-10 in. long cylindrical 

 with contractions at intervals, edible, seeds in mealy 

 pulp, oblong. 



FroSOPiS Stephaaiaiia small ; copious slender prickles, leaflets smaller than 



Chot/aJi. the last ; flowers rather larger ; pods, i-1 in. long, 



Leguminos^. I in. thick, otherwise like the last species. 



F. B. I.ii. 288. 



The Plains near 



Peshawar. 



Flowers rnhinte in Runnd Heads ; Spines Long and Straicjlit. 



iicacia Faraesiana, 



Vilayati kikar. 



F. B. I. ii.292. 



The Plains to 3,000 ft. 



Acacia Arabica, 



BabtU liikar. 

 F. B. r. ii. 293. 

 The Plains. 



Acacia eburnea, 



Paliari li'ikar, 

 Leguminos^. 

 F.B. I.ii. 293. 

 The Plains. 



small ; slender zigzag branches with grey dots ; leaf 

 stalk 1-li in. long with 2 straight, stipular thorns, 

 pinnae 4-8 pairs, 1-H in. long ; leaflets 10-20 pairs 

 \ in. long : flowers bright yellow, fragrant, heads less 

 than \ in. diam. ; pod, 2-3 in. long, \ in. thick, cylin- 

 drical, sutures straight ; seeds in two series in pulp. 



small ; finely grey dowaiy branchlets, spines stipular, 

 straight 1-2 in. long ; leaves 1-2 in. long, pinnae 

 3-6 pairs, A-U in. long, leaflets, 10-20 pairs, ^-\ in, 

 long, beads, \ in. diam. ; flowers yellow, fragrant ; 

 pods usually solitary, 3-6 in. long, straight, stalk 

 i-f in. long, sutures deeply indented between each 

 seed, grey downy, 8-12 seeded. 



small ; general habit of the last but differs by its 

 leaves having fewer leaflets, 12-16, its flower having 

 an unpleasant smell and its straight sutured pod, 

 profusely veined, smooth, 6-10 seeded, generally 2-4 

 pods from one flower head. 



