Acacia.] XXXI. LEGUMINOSiE. 189 



the ends of branches. Pods thick, fleshy, imperfectly dehiscent, some- 

 what contracted between seeds, 4-5 in. long, 1 in. broad. 



South India, Bengal, Burma, Indian Archipelago. Abundant in the Oudh 

 forests. Fl. March-July ; the fr. ripens in the ensuing cold season. The pods 

 (and in Oudh the pounded leaves also) are used for washing the hair. The 

 leaves are acid, and are eaten. 



A. rugata, Ham. ; Benth. 1. c. 514 (ovary villose), does not in my opinion 

 differ from A. concinna. In the specimens of both concinna and rugata ex- 

 amined by me, the ovaries are always more or less hairy, and this is the main 

 character given. I follow Wight and Arnott in maintaining the name A. con- 

 cinna for the united species. 



14. A. caesia, W. & A. Prodr. 278. Syn. Mimosa cmsia, Linn. ; 

 Roxb. ii. 565. Acacia Intsia, Willd. ; W. & A. Prodr. 1. c. ; Benth. 1. c. 

 515. Vern. Katrar, Kamaon. 



A large climbing and prickly shrub ; branchlets, petioles, and pedun- 

 cles pubescent, and armed with short, conical, sharp, scattered prickles. 

 Branchlets and petioles angled and sulcate. Common petiole 3-12 in. long, 

 with oblong, raised convex glands, one above its base, and 2 or 3 smaller 

 glands at the base of the uppermost pinnae ; pinnae 4-15 pair; leaflets 

 10-30 pair, subcoriaceous, pubescent, shining above, pale or rust-coloured 

 beneath, subfalcate or from an oblique base linear-oblong, acute. Stipules 

 deciduous, linear or lanceolate, striate. Flower-buds brown or greenish 

 white; flowers pale yellow, in globose pedunculate heads. Peduncles 

 fasciculate, in large terminal panicles. Pods thin, flat, dehiscent, 4-6 

 in. long, 1 in. broad ; rusty, or brown-tomentose when young, glabrous 

 afterwards. 



Common in most parts of India and Burma. In the sub-Himalayan tract to 

 the Chenab, ascending to 4000 ft. in Kamaon. Fl. April- Aug. ; the pods ripen 

 in autumn. 



15. A. pennata, Willd. ; W. & A. Prodr. 277. Syn. Mim. pennata, 

 Roxb. Fl. Ind. ii. 565. Vern. Agla, awal, Kamaon. 



Differs from A. cassia by narrow linear leaflets, not pale beneath, a large 

 flat raised oval gland half-way between the base of the common petiole 

 and the first pair of pinnae, and glabrous pods. 



South India, Bengal, Burma, Indian Archipelago. Nepal, Kamaon, and Oudh 

 forests. Fl. June- Aug. 



Order XXXII. ROSACEA. 



Herbs, shrubs, or trees, with alternate, rarely opposite, simple or com- 

 pound, stipulate leaves, and regular flowers. Calyx superior or inferior, 

 gamosepalous ; lobes 5, the 5th next the axis, imbricate in bud. Disc 

 annular, or lining the calyx-tube. Petals 5, rarely none, perigynous, 

 often orbicular and concave, deciduous, imbricate, claws short or none. 

 Stamens numerous, rarely 1 or few, inserted with the petals or on the 

 disc, 1- to multiseriate, incurved in bud; anthers small, usually didy- 

 mous. Carpels 1 or more, free or connate, or adnate to the calyx-tube ; 



