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2. A. procera. (Acacia p. D.) Bark light, pinnae 3 to 6 

 pair, leaflets 6 to 12 pair, oblique, oblong, smooth, flowers 

 yellow in round heads panicled, pod pointed, 8 inches long, 

 red and leafy, seeds small oval. Kinai, kilai, gurdr. 



Konkan, Ghauts and E. Guzerat. 



3. A. stipulata. Pinnae 6 to 20 pair, leaflets 20 to 40 pair, 

 very narrow unequal-sided, stipules large acute reddish flowers 

 in panicles, the heads many-flowered, the long brush-like 

 stamens are pink in the upper half, pod flat, reddish-brown, 

 smooth. Shembar, lallei, udal. 



Ghauts and S. Konkan. This is a most beautiful flat-topped tree, 

 and grows in perfection at Matheran. I have seen it also in fall 

 bloom in gardens in N. Italy. It must surely almost bear comparison 

 with trees 



" Crowning the glorious hills of Paradise." Wordsworth. 



* A. amara, generally downy, pinnae 4 to 11 pair, leaflets 20 to 40 

 pair, very narrow, flowers yellow in heads, pod opaque, grey-brown. 

 Lallei. Mahableshwar (D.). Deccan, Lisboa. 



* A. odoratissima< Like A. procera, but leaflets and heads of 

 flowers more numerous, flowers small pale yellow, pods shorter and 

 broader with thickened margins. Ran siras, sirsa. Konkan (D. and 

 #.). Pauch Mahals (Brandis). 



To this tribe belongs Pithecolobium dulcis (Inga d. D.), a widely- 

 spread tropical tree, but introduced into India, and freely planted 

 about Bombay and elsewhere. It has drooping branches and very 

 small white flowers in small round long-stalked heads, pods twisted 

 into 2 or 3 coils, full of a white edible pulp. It is generally called 

 Vildyati chinch. 



P. bigeminum, an unarmed tree, pinnae one or two pair, leaflets 

 two or three pair, ovate pointed, heads few-flowered in irregnlar 

 panicles, flowers white, silky, pod in one or two coils. Kdchlora. 

 S. Konkan (D.), but doubtfully wild. 



ORDER 43. ROSACES. The Eose family. 



Leaves alternate with stipules, flowers regular, calyx 4 or 5- 

 lobed or more, petals 5, inserted under the margin of the disk ; 

 stamens indefinite, perigynous ; ovary of one or more carpels, 

 generally separate. 



This great, important, and well-known order of temperate regions 

 is but very slightly represented in W. India, but it is as well to 

 describe it at some length, on account of the many fruits, which are 

 cultivated more or less in this country, but come to perfection only 

 in cooler climates. 



