178 XXXI. LEGUMINOS^. [Albizzia. 



Trunk 5 ft. girth, with a large spreading head, growth rapid. Branchlets 

 dark grey, stiff, nexuose, sulcate. Bark in. thick, dark grey, with long horizon- 

 tal wrinkles, and whitish, elevated, oval spots ; foliage bright green ; growth 

 fairly rapid, 3-4 rings in 1 in. of radius. Sapwood large, yellowish, with nu- 

 merous white specks ; heartwood dark, almost black in old trees, beautifully 

 mottled with lighter and darker shades of colour apparently coinciding with the 

 annual rings. Pores in small detached patches of whitish tissue. Medullary 

 rays conspicuous, shining, very numerous. The wood is hard, strong, moder- 

 ately heavy, and takes a good polish. Furniture is made of it. 



6. A. stipulata, Boivin j Benth. 1. c. 92 ; Bedd. Fl. Sylv. t. 55. Syn. 

 Acacia stipulata, DC. ; W. & A. Prodr. 274. A. Smitftiana, Wall. ; A. 

 Kangraensis, Hort. Sahar. ; Mimosa stipulacea, Eoxb. Fl. Ind. ii. 549. 

 Vern. O'i, Oe, Sirin, shirsha, kasir, Pb. ; Siran, Tcaunjeria, N.W.P. ; 

 Pattia, samsundra, Oudh ; Bummaizah, Burm. 



A large tree, branchlets, petioles, and inflorescence tomentose or pubes- 

 cent. Stipules large, semi-cordate, membranous, deciduous. Common 

 petiole 6-12 in. long, with a large gland near the base ; pinnae 6-15 pair, 

 4-5 in. long ; leaflets 20-40 pair, J- J in. long, from a broad base oblong- 

 linear, the middle nerve near the upper edge, acute, pubescent. Flowers 

 yellowish, inodorous, J in. to 1 in. long to extremity of filaments ; stamens 

 slightly tinged with red. Calyx and corolla pubescent ; calyx tubular, 

 half the length of corolla, or somewhat less. Segments of corolla ovate. 

 Flower-heads fasciculate in racemes, on peduncles 1 in. long, supported by 

 broad bract-like ovate stipules, deciduous, and covered with ferruginous 

 tomentum. Legumes 6 in. long, f in. broad, with 8-12 seeds. 



South India, Ceylon, Burma, Bengal. Oudh, sub-Himalayan tract west to 

 the Indus, ascending to 4000 ft. Abundant in the Kangra valley, overtopping 

 the coppice-wood of Quercus annulata. Young leaves Feb.-March ; fl. April- 

 June ; pods ripen in autumn. 



Attains 50 ft. in North India, trunk not very straight, dividing into large 

 spreading limbs, which support a broad depressed crown, somewhat resembling 

 that of Poinciana regia. Extremities of branchlets velvety, branches fur- 

 rowed. Bark J in. thick, dark grey, with numerous small vertical wrinkles, 

 and a few larger horizontal furrows with prominent edges extending half-way 

 round the trunk, which has the appearance as if it were constricted with cords, 

 smooth pieces flaking off between the furrows. Sapwood large, white, readily 

 attacked by insects ; heartwood reddish brown. Pores large, prominently 

 marked on a longitudinal section ; weight of cub. ft. 48-56 lb. Not much 

 valued in the Panjab Himalaya. (The wood of Bummaizah from Burma is 

 beautifully mottled.) The branches are lopped for cattle-fodder. 



7. A. amara, Boivin ; Benth. 1. c. iii. 90. Syn. Acacia amara, Willd. 

 A. Wightii, Grah. ; W. & A. Prodr. 274. Mimosa amara, Eoxb. Cor. 

 PI. t. 122 ; Fl. Ind. ii. 548. M. pulchella, Eoxb. ib. Vern. Lullei, 

 lallye, Dekkan. 



An unarmed tree ; branchlets, petioles, and inflorescence downy, with 

 soft yellowish tomentum. Common petiole 2-4 in. long, pinnae 6-15 pair. 

 A circular gland on the petiole, and at the insertion of the uppermost 

 pair. Leaflets small, numerous, linear, J in. long, the midrib nearly in 

 the middle of the leaflet. Peduncles fasciculate in the axils of the upper- 





