160 LEGUMINOS^. [Mlizzia. 



to 52 Ibs. per cubic foot. The wood is used to make furniture. The tree' is 

 extremely handsome when in flower, with its innumerable pink tassels of delicate silky 

 blossoms, from which it derives its name guldb-resham, rose silk. 



Ibs. 

 H 97. Sutlej Valley, Simla, 4,000 feet ...... 52 



H 152. Sainj, Simla, 4,000 feet ........ 43 



6. A. stipulata, Boivin; Hook. Fl. Ind. ii. 300; Beddome t. Fl. ; 

 Brandis 178; Kurzi. 426; Gamble 34. Mimosa slipidacea, Roxb. 55, 

 Ind. ii. 549. Vern. 01, oe, sirin, shirslia, kasir, Pb. ; Sir an t kanujer a. 

 pattia, samsnndra, Hind. ; Kala siris, Nep. ; Singriang, Lepcha ; 

 Sow, Ass.; Selchoy Garo; Ctakua, amluki, Beng. ; Kat turanji, Tarn. ; 

 Konila chiragu, chindaga, Tel. ; Kal baghi, hole bag/ii, Kan. ; Kabal, 

 Cingh. ; Pokoh, Magh ; Boomaiza, Burm. 



A large, deciduous, fast-growing tree. Bark grey, with numerous 

 short, vertical wrinkles and a few larger horizontal furrows, with promi- 

 nent edges, darker when old. Sapwood large, white; heartwood brown, 

 generally not durable, soft, shining. Annual rings distinctly marked. 

 Pores large, often oval and subdivided, very prominent on a longitudinal 

 section. Medullary rays fine, short, reddish, not very distinct. 



Sub-Himalayan tract from the ludus eastwards, ascending to 4,000 feet ; Oudh, 

 Bengal, Burma, South India. 



Growth very rapid. Roxburgh says that a tree he planted in the Botanic Garden 

 at Calcutta measured 48'5 inches in girth at 4 feet above the ground when 7 years old ; 

 this would give a rate of growth of slightly less than 1 ring per inch of radius. 

 Stewart, in " Punjab Plants, p. 56," says that a tree in the Saharanpur Gardens was 

 7 feet in girth at about 17 years of age, which gives rather over 1 ring per inch of 

 radius. Our specimens give 3 to 4 rings per inch of radius. A round in the Bengal 

 Forest Museum from a young tree, shews 11 rings on a mean radius of 6 inches or 1'8 

 rings per inch of radius. The growth may be taken therefore at 1 to 4 rings per inch 

 of radius, which is very rapid. Weight, according to Skinner, No. 9, 55 Ibs. ; according 

 to Brandis' Burma List of 1862, No. 27, 66 Ibs. ; our specimens give only 33 Ibs.; and 

 Kyd (Acacia marginata, Ham.) 28 Ibs. Kyd gives P = 222 ; and Skinner gives 

 P = 823 ; but it is doubtful if his experiments were really from wood of A. stipulata. 

 The wood is said by Beddome, probably quoting Skinner, to be used for building and 

 for naves of wheels. Eurz says it is good for cabinet work, furniture and similar pur- 

 poses. Brandis' Burma List, 1862, No. 27, says it is prized for cart-wheels and for the 

 bells of cattle. In Bengal it has been tried for tea-boxes, for which purpose it will 

 probably suit well ; also for charcoal. It gives a guni which exudes copiously from 

 the stem, and is used by Nepalese for sizing their " Daphne " paper. The branches are 

 lopped for cattle fodder. 



H 603. Kangra, Punjab ......... 29* 



O 217. Garhwal (1868) . . . ....... 28 



C 2989. Jubbulpore, Central Provinces (1863) .... 



E 647. Banmnpokri, Darieeling Terai ...... 26 



E 2362. ....... 29 



E 788. Kamriip, Assam ......... 40 



E 1956. Chittagong ..... ' ..... 25" 



B 809. Burma .......... :*< 



B 2528. (1866) ......... 33 



B 2221. Andaman Islands (1866) ....... 45 



7. A. amara, Boivin ; Hook. Fl. Ind. ii. 301 ; Brandis 178. A. aumra 

 and A. Wightii, Grab.; Beddome t. 61, xcvi. Mimosa aniara and 

 M. jmlc/iclla, lloxb. Fl. Ind. ii. 548. Vern. I/allei, Dekkan ; Thnriiigi, 

 wiinjtiy suranji, shckram, Tarn. ; Nallarenga, shckrani, tikkai t narlhitji, 

 Tel. ; Bel-khambi, Kan.; Kadsige, Coorg; Ousulay, Mai. 



A moderate-sized deciduous tree. Sapwood large ; heartwood pur- 



