Acrocarpus.'] LEGUMINOSAE. 397 



Pod linear, torulose, turgid at the seeds, finally dehiscent. Seeds 

 oblong, elongate. 



PARKINSONIA ACULEATA, Linn.; F. B. I. ii. 260; W. & A. 284. 



In all dry Districts, a native of Tropical America, run wild, 



often on black cotton soil. 



A small tree or shrub with showy yellow flowers and narrow 



pods, the very small leaflets often early deciduous. Yern. 



Teb. Sinia tumana. 



65. Wagatea, Dalz. 



A climbing shrub with scattered prickles. Leaves abruptly 

 bipiiinate, pinnae 4-6 pair, leaflets 6-7 pair, oblong ; stipules small. 

 Flowers subsessile in long simple or panicled spicate racemes ; 

 bracts minute. Calyx-tube campanulate ; lobes 5, subvalvate, 

 the lowest rather the largest. Petals 5, subequal, erect, *oblong, 

 obtuse, imbricate. Stamens 10, free ; filaments pilose at the 

 base ; anthers uniform, alternate ones shorter. Ovary subsessile, 

 free, many-ovuled ; style slightly clavate ; stigma oblique. Pod 

 oblong, indehiscent, subtorulose, turgid at the seeds. Seeds 

 ovoid. 

 WAGATEA SPICATA, Dalz.; F. B. I. ii. 261; Wt. Ic. t. 1995. 



W. Ghats, in 8. Canara, Mysore and Malabar, up to 3,000 ft. 



A prickly climber with scarlet calyx and orange petals. 



66. Acrocarpus, Wt. 



An erect unarmed tree. Leaves bipinnate, pinnae 3-5 pairs, 

 each with 5-6 pairs of large leaflets, paripinnate ; stipules 

 deciduous ; stipels 0. Flowers in dense axillary racemes, usually 

 deflexed, pedicels short; bracts small, caducous, like the small 

 lanceolate bracteoles. Calyx -tube campanulate, disk -lined; 

 lobes 5, lanceolate^ equal, as long as tube. Petals 5, narrow, 

 subequal. Stamens 5, free, exserted, anthers versatile. Ovary 

 stipitate, many-ovuled; style short, incurved; stigma minute. 

 Pod flat, ligulate, dehiscent, the upper suture winged, 5-10-seeded. 

 Seeds obovate, oblique, compressed. 



ACROCARPUS FRAXINIFOLIUS, Wt. Ic. t. 254, excl. leaf; 



F. B. I. ii. 292 ; Bedd. Fl. t. 44. 



W. Ghats, in the Nilgiri, Anamalai, Travancore and Tinnevelly 



hills, in evergreen forest up to 4,000 ft. ; often planted. 



A very large and UJfty deciduous tree with large buttresses, 



