420 LEGUMINOSE. [ Acacia. 
ACACIA, Willd. 
Sepals 5, 4, or 3, free or united, rarely eons he. 
Petals as many, free or united. Stamens indefini ve 
numerous, free or slightly united at the very base. Gag sessile or 
stalked, with 2 to many ovules; style filiform with a small terminal 
stigma. Pod linear or oblong, flat to neatly cylindrical, — 
— or variously twisted, opening in 2 valves or indehisce 
eeds more or less flattened, the funicle usually thickened se 
or round ti .—Trees or shrubs, often scandent, prickly or 
unarmed, with abruptly bipinnate leaves reduced to simple phyllodia 
(dilated petioles). Flowers small, in globular heads or cylindrical 
* Trees or ey shrubs, armed only with paired diverging 
ae or infra-stipulary spines. 
ah globular heads. 
— thick eit almost here: fleshy ; flower-heads clustered , . A. Farnesiana. 
t, a < heads arranged in terminal panicles . . A, leucophlea. 
a Shama: in spikes. 
ae Leaves with 10-30 pairs of pinne ; leaflets 1-nerved 
at base. Pods slenderly stalked. 
Spikes ast irae tomentose ; young agin greyish pubescent ; bark 
. A, suma. 
; ae how, glabrous | or pubescent ; leaves glabrous or nearly 
3 bark dar! . A, catechu. 
Sc Les with 3-5. pairs of pinne ; leaflets 3-5- 
nerved at i ase, glabro . A ferruginea. 
* x Climbers. No stipulary prickles: but the " branchlets 
armed along their whole ~~: with recurved sharp 
prickles. Flower-heads 
X Pods thick, fleshy- carerees patel , . A. concinna. 
X X Pods dry, c ceous or thin eS flat. ge 
© Ovary and pods pubescent . . A, c@sia. 
O O Ovary and labrous 
Leaflets 8.30 juirs Fi lone . A. Intsia, 
Leaflets in 30-40 pairs, 2-3 lin. ine ‘branchlets puberulous, but 
not pruinose; flower-heads the a large pea . A. pennata. 
As peng but the fower-heads < ‘aoutly tales ; “branchlets 
3 leaflets about 6 lin. long, glabrous . A, pruinescens. 
* 7 ees or erect shrubs, armed only por paired diverging 
es or infra-stipulary spines. 
Willd.; Bedd. Sylv. Madr. t. 51; Brand. 
For. Fi. 180.—Nan-lon-kyaing. —An evergreen tree (20—25+8 
: oot} , armed with paired, straight, sharp, stipulary spines 
of 2-3 lin. length, the young shoots slightly pubescent ; ake 
sevty bipinnate, 13-3 in. long, with 3-6 pairs of pinne, 
rachises tly and minutely pubescent, usually with a minute 
lan: above the base of the petiole ; leaflets in 12-20 pairs, linear- 
ong and very slightly curved, blunt or almost acute, sessile, 
coriaceous, #, glabrous or nearly so; flowers small, very 
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