Acacia.] LEGUMINOSJG. 153 



It gives a gum, usad in native medicine. The leaves and fallen blossoms are collected 



for cuttle fodder. 



Ibs. 



P 164 Hoshiarpur (J. L. Stewart, 1866) 72 



P OU. Gu jurat 68 



P 945. Mu'ltan 67 



6. A. ferruginea, DC.; Hook. Fl. Iml. ii. 295; Beddome t. 51 ; 

 Branclis 185; Kurz i. 423; Gamble 32. Mimosa ferruginea, lloxb. Fl. 

 Ind. ii. 561. Vern. Kkour, Nep. ; Kaiger, Panch Mehals ; Son khair, 

 Berar ; Kar khair, Gondi ; Phandra Mair, Mar. ; Teori /chair, Bhil ; Banni, 

 Kan. ; Velvelam, Tarn. ; Ansandra, tella tuma, wuni, Tel. 



A large deciduous tree. Bark \ inch thick, rough. Sapwood large ; 

 heartwood olive brown, extremely hard, harder than A. Catechu. Pores 

 moderate-sized, generally single, in small rounded patches of softer 

 tissue, which are often confluent and joined into short interrupted concen- 

 tric bands. Medullary rays short, white, fine, numerous. 



Northern Bengal, Central and South India, Guzerat. 



Weight, according to Skinner, No. 4, 60 Ibs. ; our specimens give 70 Ibs. Skinnor 

 gives P = 798. A fine timber, but little used. Beddorne says it is used for building, 

 carts and agricultural implements. It gives a good gum, similar to gum arable. 



Ibs; 



C 872. Bairagarh Reserve, Berar 70 



E 2357. Bamunpokri, Darjeeling Tcrai 67 



1)1081. North Arcot . 73 



A piece of red wood, B 2529 (57 Ibs.), collected in Burma in 1862 and marked SJia, 

 has large and moderate-sized pores filled with resin ; they are often subdivided 

 and their transverse diameter is greater than the distance between the fine, closely 

 packed and prominent medullar} 7 rays. It evidently belongs to a species of Acacia, and 

 in structure resembles A. ferruginea, which has not yet been described from Burma. 



7. A. Catechu, Willd. ; Hook. Fl. Ind. ii. 295 ; Brandis 186 ; Kurz i. 

 422 ; Gamble 32. A. Sundra, Beddome t. 50. Mimosa Sundra, Roxb. 

 Fl. Ind. ii. 562. Vern. Khair, Hind. ; Khoira, Jcoir, Ass. ; Khoiru, 

 Uriya ; Karangalli, bagd, Tarn. ; Sandra, nalla sandra, Tel. ; Kagli, 

 Kan. ; Hat kihiri, Cingh. ; Sha, Burm. 



A moderate-sized, gregarious, thorny, deciduous tree. Bark dark 

 grey or greyish brown, rough, exfoliating in long narrow strips. Sap- 

 wood yellowish white ; heartwood either dark or light red, extremely 

 hard. The wood grown in the Himalayan valleys shews the annual 

 rings marked by a whitish line and by a larger number of pores in the 

 spring wood. Pores moderate-sized and large, often subdivided occasion- 

 ally in radial groups of 2 or 3, and surrounded by narrow rings of softer 

 tissue which are often joined and form interrupted concentric bands. 

 Pores frequently filled with a white substance, uniformly distributed 

 except that they are more numerous in the innermost part of each 

 annual ring, distinctly marked on a longitudinal section. Medullary 

 rays short, moderately broad, numerous, bent where they touch the 

 pores , which are often larger than the space between two medullary 

 rays. 



Common in most parts of India and Burma, extending in the Sub-Himalayan 

 tract westwards to the Indus. 



The growth of the Himalayan trees, whose rings it is possible to count, is moderate, 

 being 5 rings per inch uf radius. The tree grows quickly when young, and its 



