M.viii. M.i.i .\ii.\os.i:. -I l;j 



J). o() ; Dali^. & (ii!)s. p. 8") ; Talb. Trees, ]k)inb. ed. 2, p. loO ; Woodr. 

 in Journ. Bomb. Nat. v. 11 (1898) p. 428. — Flowers: Sept. Veev. 

 Ark-ar ; Aniti. 



KoNKAN : Capt. Geburne\ Pkccan: widely, Wuodrow ; Poona, Cooke \; Cliandri, 

 0/ln Kunf;e,l\Vi\\ raviiips near Ilewra, DnLidl\\ Cli.ittersinglii liill near I'oona, 

 Kanif/iur \ Gujaiiat: Sural, Grnhani, I)tilzell\\ Poi-baiular (Katbiawar), Cnnki^\ 

 S. M. CoUNTiiY : common on the Kiiput range ol' liills, Dbarwar district, Talbot. — 

 DisTiiiB. India (W. I'eninsula}. 



79. ACACIA, AVilld. 



Trees or shrubs erect or climbing, usually armed. Leaves 2-pinnate; 

 stipules spinescent or inconspicuous, rarely membranous. Leaflets 

 usually smiill, multijugate or reduced to a leaf-like petiole (phyllode), 

 Flowers small, hermaphrodite or polygamous, usually 5-merous, in 

 globose heads or cylindric spikes ; peduncles axillary, solitary or fascicled 

 or panicled at the ends of the branches. Calyx campanulate or funnel- 

 shaped, shortly toothed. Petals exserted, more or less united, rarely 

 free. Stamens indefinite, much exserted, free ; anthers small, not gland- 

 crested. Ovary sessile or stalked ; ovules many ; style filiform; stigma 

 small, terminal. Pod ligulate or oblong, not jointed, usually compressed 

 and dry, dehiscent or indehiscent, rarely turgid and subcylindric, the 

 sutures straight or wavy, not thickened. — Disthib. The leaf-bearing 

 groups cosmopolitan in the Tropics, the great phyllodineous series, 

 which comprises two-thirds of the genus, almost restricted to Australia ; 

 species 430. 



Erect trees or slinibs. 



Flowers in globose heads. 

 Heads on axillary peduncles. 



Pod monilii'orm 1. A. aruhica. 



Pod cylindric, turgid, not nioniliform. 



Pod nearly straiglit ; petiole glandular 2. A. Farnesiana. 



Pod circinate ; petiole egliindular 3. A. planifrons. 



Pod flat. 



Leaflets 5-8 pairs, glabrous. 



A small tree with ill-smelling flowers; pod longi- 

 tudinally veined 4. A. cbnrnea. 



A bushy shridj witli very fragrant flowers; pod 



transversely or reliculately veined 5. A. Jacquemonii. 



Leaflets 20-;>0 pairs, tomentose fi. A. tovientosa. 



Heads in panicles 7. A, leucophlcea. 



Flowers in spikes. 



Pinnce 10-20 pairs ; bark white 8. A. Sumn. 



Pinna; 20-40 pairs ; bark dark-brown 0. A. Caiec/tu. 



Pinnaj 3-6 pairs. 



Stipular spines short, hooked. 



Stipular spines in pairs 10. A. fcrri/ffiiica. 



Stipular spines ternate 11. A. Senrgal. 



Stipular spines long, straight 12. A. lafi-oiinm. 



Climbing shrubs. 

 Leaflets 12-30 pairs. 



Pod thick, wrinkled when dry 13. A. conciium. 



Pod thin, not wrinkled when dry. 



Leaflets ^-J in. broad 14. A. hit Ma. 



Leaflets j\ in. broad lo. A. cceda. 



Leaflets 40-50 pdrs 10. A. pennata. 



1. Acacia arabica, TH//^. -S)>. Fl. v. 4 dSO,-,) p. 1085. A small 



2g 2 



