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XXX. 

 PROSOPIS ACULEATA. KCENIG. 



Tsbamie of the Hindus in the Northern drears* 



BY DOCTOR ROXBURGH. 



r TPHIS grows to be a pretty large tree, is a native 

 ■*• of most parts of the coast, chiefly of low lands 

 at a considerable distance from the sea, and may be 

 only a variety of P. Spicigera, for the thorns are in 

 this sometimes wanting ; flowers during the cold, and 

 beginning of the hot seasons. 

 Trunk tolerably erect, bark deeply cracked, dirty 



ash colour. 

 Branches irregular, very numerous, forming a pretv 



ty large shady head. 

 Prickles scattered over the small branches; in 



some trees wanting. 

 Leaves alternate, generally bipinnate, from two to 



three inches long; pinnae from one to four, when 



in pairs opposite, and have a gland between their 



insertions. 

 Leaflets opposite, from seven to ten pair, oblique- 

 ly lanced, smooth, entire, about half an inch long, 



and one-sixth broad. 



Stipules none. 



Spikes several, axillary, filiform, nearly erect. 



Bracts 



