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Planis of the Punjab. 
TREES WITH ALTERNATE STIPULATE COMPOUND LEAVES. 
Prosopis spicigera, 
Jand. 
LEGUMINOS#. 
AB, 1, 11. 288. 
The Plains. 
Baluchistan (Boissier). 
Prosopis Stephaniana, 
Chogak. 
LEGUMINOS#. 
F. B. I. i. 288. 
The Plains near 
Peshawar. 
PETALS UNUNITED. 
Pod-bearing. 
Leaves Bipinnate. 
Flowers Minute. 
medium size, with extremely long tap root, 
prickles 4-4 in. long, scattered, broad, conical, nearly 
straight ; pinne 4, 1-2 in. long with a gland between 
each pair, leaflets 8-12 pairs, 4-4 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 contrac- 
tions at intervals, edible, seeds in mealy pulp, oblong. 
small, prickles copious slender ; leaflets smaller than 
the last ; flowers rather larger; pods 4-1 in. long, 4 in. 
thick, otherwise like the last species. 
Flowers Minute in Round Heads ; Spines Long and Straight. 
Acacia Farnesiana, 
Vilayati kikar. 
EP, 1. i. 292. 
The Plains to 3,000 ft. 
Baluchistan (Stocks). 
Acacia arabica, 
Babul, kikar. 
¥. B. I. 11. 298. 
The Plains. 
Baluchistan (Stocks). 
Acacia eburnea, 
Pahari kikar. 
LEGUMINOS#. 
F. B. I. ii. 298. 
The Plains. 
small, branches slender zigzag with grey dots ; leaf 
stalk 1-14 in. long with 2 straight stipular thorns, 
pinne 4-8 pairs, 1-14 in. long, leaflets 10-20 pairs, 4 in. 
long ; flowers bright yellow, fragrant, heads less than 
4 in. diam.; pod 2-3 in. long, 4 in. thick, cylindrical, 
sutures straight, seeds in two series in pulp. A perfume 
is made from the flowers. 
small, branchlets finely grey, downy, spines stipular, 
straight, }-2in. long; leaves 1-2 in. long, pinne 3-6 
pairs, 4-14 in. long, leaflets 10-20 pairs, }-} im. long ; 
flowers yellow, fragrant, heads 4 in. diam.; pods 
usually solitary, 3-6 in. long, straight, stalk $-? in. long, 
sutures deeply indented between each seed, grey, downy, 
8-12 seeded. The wood is hard and used for wheels. 
general habit of the last species, but differs by its 
leaves having fewer leaflets, 12-16, its flowers having 
an unpleasant smell and its straight sutured pod pro- 
fusely veined, smooth, 6-10 seeded, generally 2-4 pods 
from one flower head. The wood is used for fuel. 
