Anacia.'] L. LEGUMINOS2E. (J. G. Baker.) 293 



coriaceous. Peduncles crowded in the nodes of full-grown leaves, shorter than the 

 leaves, with the ring of bracts at or near the apex. Heads fragrant bright yellow, 

 Tinder in. diam. Calyx campanulate, very minute. Corolla^f'rn. ; teeth short, 

 obtuse. Pod 2-3 in. long, in. thick, dull brown, marked with fine ^close horizontal 

 striae. 



2. A. planifrons, W. $ A. Prodr. 276; pinnae 10-16, leaflets 16-24, 

 heads axillarv, pod narrow ligulate turgid with straight sutures. Bedd. Fl. 

 Sylv. 95. A/Farnesiana, Wall. Cat. 5264 I. A. Koxburghii, W. # A. Prodr. 

 276. A. OampbeUii, Am. Pug. 15. Mimosa eburnea, Eoxb. Cor. PL t. 199 ; 

 Fl. Ind. ii. 558, n<m Linn. M. horrida, Sm. in Rees Cyclop. 



WESTERN PENINSULA. 



A tree, with a flat umbrella-like top, and glabrous branches with grey lenti- 

 cular dots. Spines - in. long, the old ones spreading, \ in. thick, very pungent. 

 Leaves glabrous, very small ; glands of the rachis or minute ; pinnae ^~ ini long ; 

 leaflets fa in., rigidly coriaceous, glaucous -green, glabrous. Heads in clusters 

 from the axils of mature branchlets, -| in. diam. ; peduncles very slender, with 

 the involucre below the middle. Corolla ^ in., yellow, twice the calyx. Pod 

 subcylindrical, glabrous, 2-3 in. long, -5 in. thick, circinate, rigidly subcoriaceous, 

 indehiscent. 



. A. arable a, Willd. ; DC. Prodr. ii. 461 ; pinnaa 6-12, leaflets 20-40, 

 heads axillary, pod straight strap-shaped firm grey-downy with sutures deeply 

 indented between each seed. Wall. Cat. 5246 ; W. $ A. Prodr. 277 ; Bedd. 

 Fl. Sylv. t. 47 ; Dalz. $ Gibs. Bomb. Fl. 86. A. vera, Willd. loc. cit. Mimosa 

 arabica, Lam. ; Roxb. Cor. PI. t. 149; Hort. Beng. 40 ; Fl. Ind. ii. 557. 



PUNJAB to BEHAE, WESTERN PENINSULA, and CEYLON. DISTBIB. Arabia, Egypt, 

 Trop. Africa, Natal. 



A shrub or tree, with straight finely grey-downy branchlets. Spines -2 in. 

 long, large, white, ascending and pungent on the older branchlets. Leaf-ra.ch.iscs 

 downy, with several gland* ; pinnae ^ 1 in. long ; leaflets membranous, green, ^-|- 

 in., glabrous or rather downy. Peduncles short, densely grey-downy, with the bracts 

 above the middle, 4-6-nate, the subtending leaves of the upper nodes reduced or 

 suppressed ; heads yellow, in. diam. Calyx i in., campanulate. Corolla twice 

 the length of the calyx. Pod rigidly coriaceous, subiudehiscent, densely persistently 

 grey-downy, 8-12-seeded, 5 |- ft. by |-| in., distinctly stalked. 



4. A. eburnea, Willd.; DC. Prodr. ii. 461 ; pinnae 4-10, leaflets 12-16, 

 heads axillary, pod straight narrow-ligulate rigidly coriaceous dehiscent glabrous 

 with slightly repand sutures. W. fy A. Prodr. 276 ; Dalz. # Gibs. Bomb. Fl. 

 85 ; Bedd. Fl Sylv. 95 ; Boiss. Fl. Orient, ii. 637. Mimosa eburnea, Linn. Jil. 

 Suppl. 437, non Roxb. 



EAST HIMALAYAS and PUNJAB to the WESTERN PENINSULA and CEYLON. DISTKIB. 

 Afghanistan, Arabia. 



General habit of A. arabica, with fewer leaflets and a different pod. Branchlets 

 slender, downy or glabrous. Spines -2 in., the large ones white, |- in. Pinna 

 $-^ in. long, with a gland between the lowest pair; leaflets fe-& in - ri g id ^7 

 coriaceous, grey-green. Heads yellow, under in. diam. from the axils of developed 

 leaves ; peduncles densely grey-downy, with the involucre about the middle. Calyx 

 in., funnel-shaped, shortly toothed. Corolla scarcely twice the length of the 

 calyx. Pod distinctly stalked, 3-6 in. by in., thin, flat, straight, drab, glossy, 

 rather venulose, 6-10-seeded. 



5. A. Jacquemontii, Benth. in Hook. Journ. Bot. i. 499; pinnse 6-8, 

 leaflets 12-16, heads axillary, pod thin flat broad-ligulate dehiscent glabrous 



straight sutures. 



