FABACE^. 259 



L.;—Jacq. vind. t. 9,0;—Roxb. H. B. p. 4\.) "fe India. W. Indies. 



Fl. small, white, R. S. ; fr. C. S. 

 4. punctatus, Willd. (DC. pr. 2, p. 445. — Mimosa punctata, L. — M. 



Adenanthera, Roxb. fl. ind. 2, p. 554.) ^ Jamaica. St. Domingo. 



Guadeloupe. Fl. small, white, and fr. the whole year. 

 Caillea, G. and P. {Lindl. Nat. Syst. p. 157. — Dichrostachys, W. and A. 



pr. \, p. Ill; according to Lindl.) 

 1. cinerea, G. and P. (Dichrostachys cinerea, W. and A. I. c. ; — Wight. 



icon. 2, t. 357 ; — J. Grah. Cat. B. pi. p. 57. — Mimosa cinerea, />. ; — 



Roxb. Coram. 2, t. 174 ; fl. ind. 2, p. 561. — Desman thus cinereus, 



Willd. ; — DC. pr. 2, p. 445. — Acacia Dalea, Desv. ; — DC. a. c. p. 



459. — Burm. zeyl. t. 2.) b Fl. small, rose-coloured yellow, H. S. ; 



fr. Aug. Ceylon. Coromandel. Common on the sterile plains of the 



Deccan. Delhi. Patna. Paghamew. 

 Adenanthera, L. (DC. pr. 2, p. 446 ; — W. and A. pr. I, p. 271.) 



1. pavonina, L. (DC. I. c. ; — W. and A. I. c. ; — J. Grah. Cat. B. pi. p. 

 57 ,—Roxb. ft. ind. 2, p. 370; — Wight, ill. 1, t. 80.— Rheed. 6, t. 14; 

 — Rumph. 3, t. 109.) ?^ ^^"T Ruckto-chundun. L. b Moluccas. 

 Both Peninsulas of India. Bengal, (Serampore.) Silhet. Assam. Fl. 

 small, yellow, fragrant, H. S, ; fr. R. and C. S. Inner wood of large 

 trees deep red, hard, durable and yielding a dye, with which the 

 Brahmins, after religious bathing, mark their foreheads. Seeds bright 

 scarlet, worn by women as beads, and on account of their equality 

 (each of them weighing four grains) used by goldsmiths and jewellers 

 for weights. (Roxb.) 



2./alcata, L. (DC. pr. 2, p. 446;— Rumph. 3, if. 111.) L. b Moluccas. 

 Fl. small, yellowish. Introduced in 1838. 

 Prosopis, L. (DC. pr. 2, p. 446 ;—W. and A. pr. 1, p. 271.) 



l.spicigera, L. (DC. I. c. ;—W. and A. I. c. ;—Roxb. H. B. p. 32 ;— 

 Corom. 1, t. 63 ; — /. Grah. Cat. B. pi. p. 57. — P. spicata, Burm. 

 ind. t. 25, /. 3. — Adenanthera aculeata, Roxb. fl. ind. 2, p. 371.) 

 *n^ Shumee. b Coromandel. Goozerat. Furukabad. Delhi. Saharun- 

 pore. Fl. small, yellow, C. S, ; fr. R. S. Pods containing a large 

 quantity of a brown, mealy, sweetish substance, which the natives 

 eat. (Roxb.) 



2. dulcis, Kth. (Mim. p. 110, t. 34 ;—(DC. pr. 2, p. 447 — Acacia laevi- 

 gata, Willd. — Mimosa laevigata, Roxb. H. B. p. 41.) b N. Spain. 

 Fl. small, greenish- white. Introduced into H. C. G. in 1811 from 

 the Mauritius, but had not fl. in 1814. — Pulp of the pods very sweet, 

 and eaten by the inhabitants of N. Spain. (G. Don.) 



Acacia, Neck. (DC. pr. 2, p. 448 ;—W. and A.pr. 1, p. 272.) 



1. Catechu, "Willd. (DC. pr. 2, p. 458 ;— IF. and A. I. c. ;—J. Grah. 

 Cat. B. pi. p. 58. — A. polyacantha, Willd. ; — DC. o. c. p. 459. — A. 

 Wallichiana, DC. o. c. p. 458. — Mimosa Catechu, L. ; Roxb. fl. ind. 

 2, p. 562, excl. No. 38, /;. 563 ; No. 41 and 42 ; Coram. 2, t. 174 ;— 



