Acacia] 



XLV. LEGUMINOS.E 



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5. A. Jacquemonti, Benth. ; Brandis F. Fl. 183. Vern. Ratabauli, Grnz. 



A bushy shrub ; perfectly glabrous ; branches flexuose, brown, shining. 

 Stipular spines straight, white, 1-2 in. long. Pinnae 2-4 pair; leaflets 

 obtuse, fleshy, 5-10 pair. Fl. heads yellow, sweet-scented ; peduncles 5-10, 

 fasciculate ; a pair of small scaly bracts about the middle. Pod stalked, thin, 

 flat, glabrous, 2—3 by > in. 



Trans -Indus. Punjab plains and Outer Himalaya ascending to 3.000 ft. Sind, 

 Bajputana, Guzerat (the dwarf Babul of Bajputana and Guzerat). Fl. Febr.-May. 

 6. A. tomentosa, Willd.; Trimen Handbook Ceylon ii. 124. Lower Bengal. Western 

 Peninsula, doubtful. Ceylon, dry region: a small bushy tree: branches and 1. tomen- 

 tose ; thorns from a stout base, up to 3i in. long; pinnae 6-10, leaflets 8-16 pair. Pod 

 falcate, pubescent while young, somewhat torulose, 4-5 b}- A in. 



7. A leucophlcea, Willd. : Bedd. Fl. Sylv. t. 48 ; Brandis F. Fl. t. 27.— 

 Syn. Mimosa leucophlaa, Roxb. Cor. PI. t. 150. Vern. Rinj, arinj, Hind. ; 

 Raeru, Pb. : Mewar, Mar.; Telia tuma, Tel.; Velvaylam, Tam.; Tanaung, 

 Burm. 



A deciduous, thorny tree ; trunk often crooked and guarled. Bark grey or 

 light brown, when old almost black and very rough. Heart-wood reddish-brown, 

 extremely hard. Spines straight, strong. Pinnae 5-10 pair; leaflets 12-25 

 pair, grey, linear, >>-\ in. long, glabrous or pubescent. Fl. heads pale yellow, 

 nearly white, in large terminal, leafless densely tomentose panicles; peduncles 

 short. Pods linear, 4-6 by .'. in., clothed with dense brown velvet. 



Siualik hills, Jumna to Ravi. Plains of the Punjab. Bajpntana, Bundelkliand, the 

 Satpura range, Northern Circars and the Deccan. Dry region of the Irawaddi valley 

 from Prome to Bfandalay. Fl. A.ug.-Nov. 



Most, but not all, Burma specimens have large leaflets, J-J iu. long, rachis ami 

 leaflets glabrous, pods glabrous, A in. wide. These Prain [lc .jo?) prefers to con- 

 sider as a distinct species, .1. microcephalia, Graham. 



8. A. Kingil, Prain in Journ. As. Soc. Bengal (1898), 66, 506. 'Shan hills. Upper Burma. 

 A tree Hi I -40 fl . : stipular spines weak, minute ; common petiole pubescent. 2—3 in. long; 

 pinnse 9-10 pair, 1 in. long. Leaflets minute, 11-14 pair. Peduncles J in. long, hairy, 

 a rine; of bracteoles above the middle; filaments united at the base. 9. A. (?) Inopinata, 

 Prain I.e. oil?. Shan hills. Unarmed; com- 

 mon petiole' -hi In mi-, s pi in. long; pinna' 

 6-7 pair, 2-3 in. long; leaflets J in. long, 

 10 II pair. [•']. heads in terminal panicles: 

 stamens monadel phoiis. filaments united in a 



tube beyond the middle. 8 and 9 possibly not 

 Acacia. 



B. Trees or shrubs ; stipules spines- 

 cent ; fl, in spikes. 



in. A. Latronum, Willd.; Wight 

 Ic. t. 1157. Vern. Jala, Tel.; Odai, 

 Tam. 



A gregarious shrub, sometimes a small 

 tree; thorns of two kinds, thin solid 

 short and stoat, hollow, ivory-white, 

 2 in. long and .',-.', in. diam. at base. 



I., fasciculate on arrested br thlets; 



pinnae 3-5 pair, ij'-l in. long, leaflets 

 12-IS pair, minute. PI. fragrant, white 

 at first, turning yellow afterwards, in 

 lav spikes 1 ),-"_' in. long. Pods thin, 

 dehiscent, broadly falcate, obtuse at the 

 ends, dark brown, shiniiiLC. Ll-2 in. by 

 j 1 in. 



Dry hills of the Deccan, covering large 

 tracts with a formidable thorny sorub. I'l. 

 a . S., 0. 8. Pio.llB. Acacia Latronum, Willd 



