4.">() \ I, VI II. LEUL'MINOS.K, 



Dal/,. & Gibs. p. S7 ; AViglit, Icon. t. lir,7; Tulb. Trees, Bomb. ed. 2, 

 p. 153 ; Woodr. in Jouni. Bomb. Nat. v. 11 (1S1)8) p. 429 ; AVatt, Diet. 

 Econ. Prod. v. 1, p. 51. — Flowers: Oct. -Mar. Verx. Dev-hdhhal ; 

 Tanibuti ; Bhesa. 



Dkccan : widely, U'ooclroiv ; Eii«tprn Deccan, c,o\nu\on, Dahell cj- Gibson; comnioa 

 in barren tracts of the Deceaii, Gniham; Gokuk, B/iival 



13. Acacia concinna, DC. Prodr. v. 2 (1825) p. 464. An ex- 

 tensive climbing sKnib armed with numerous small hoolu^l prickles; 

 branches brown, dotted with white. Leaves 2-pinnate, 2-4 in. long ; 

 main rhachis armed with shar|) hooked prickles, with a large gland at or 

 below the middle of the petiole, and one between the uppermost or the 

 two uppermost pairs of pinme; stipules ovate, cordate ; piumc 4-S pairs, 

 1-2.1 iii^ long, their rhachises slender, grooved, ending in a weak spine. 

 LeaBets subsessile, sensitive, 12-25 pairs, J"! by ^V~tV ^^v linear, 

 acute or mucronate, unequal-sided, glabrous, base rounded or truncate. 

 Flowers in globose heads, on peduncles l-lg in. long which are fascicled 

 at the nodes or forming racemose panicles at the ends of the branches ; 

 bracts oblique, membranous, conspicuous. Calyx funnel-shaped, jL. in. 

 iong, divided nearly 5 way down ; teetb lanceolate. Corolla g -^ in. 

 long; lobes lanceolate. Pods shortly stalked, 3-5 by |-lgin., linear- 

 oblong, thick and He^hy when immature, becoming wrinkled when dry, 

 somewhat de])ressed between the seeds, and with broad sutures which 

 are sometimes more or less deeply indented. Seeds fi-10. Fl. B. I. 

 V. 2, p. 29G ; Grab. Cat. p. 5iJ ; Dalz. Jt Gibs. p. 87 ; Talb. Trees, 

 B^mb. ed. 2, p. 153; Woodr. in Journ. Bomb. Nat. v. 11 (1898) 

 p. 429; \¥att. Diet. Ecou. Prod. v. 1, p. 41.— Flowers: Mar.-July. 

 Vern. Sil-akai. 



Common in the Konkan and Gliat jungles. Konkvn: L'i/r\, DaJzcU cf Gihaon, 

 TdlhoL Mai he ran, CWa' I Dkcc an : UAh. Wo(i<h-ow. S. M. Oountuy : near Belgauni, 

 lUtrhie, 2451 Kanaka : Wuudrow, moist I'orest.s, Tulhot. — DisTUiii. Tliroughuut 

 India; Malay Isles, China. 



The pods are used for wasliing the hair and a considerable trade is carried on 

 in tliem in Kanara and Kolaba. See Walt, Diet. Econ. Prod. 1. c. 



14. Acacia Intsia, WdU. 8p. PL v. 4 (1805) p. 1091. A large 

 climbing or sarmentose shrub ; branches grooved, dark-brown, armed 

 with small hooked prickles. Leaves 2-pinnate, 4-8 in. long (including 

 a stout petiole which often reaches l.| in. long); main rhachis pubescent, 

 usually armed with hooked prickles on the underside, with a gland 

 on the petiole below the lowe.-<t pair and a gland between each of the 

 1_4 uppermost pairs of pinna) ; pinnie 5-10 pairs, 2-3 in. long, sub- 

 sessile, their rhachises more or less pubescent. Leaflets 10-25 pairs, 

 not closely crowded, subsessile, |-| by i- ^ in., linear-oblong, very 

 unequal-sided, the midrib near the upper edge, shortly and obliquely 

 mucronate, dark green and shining above, paler beneath, glabrous on 

 both surfaces, base truncate. Flowers white or yellowish-white, in 

 terminal panicles ; heads globose, g-| in. in diam. ; peduncles 1-4-uate, 

 finely downy ; bracts at the base of the peduncles linear-oblong, acute, 

 falcate, g-| in, long. Calyx campaiudate, J^y in. long, divided about 

 I the way down ; teeth lanceolate or subdeltoid. Corolla ^ in. long, 

 divided about ^ way down ; lobes lanceolate, acute. Pods shortly 

 stalked, 4-6 by I-I5 in., straight, strap-shaped, flat, thin, dry, obtuse at 

 the apex, narrow ed at the base, browu-tomentose when young, afterwards 



