Acacia. | LEGUMINOSH. 421 
scented, rereess in globular heads of nearly 4 an in. in diameter, 
borne on 1-14 in. long pubescent or almost glabrous naked peduncles 
arising by 1-4 or more from the axils of the leaves; calyx shortly 
toothed, almost glabrous; petals twice as long as the calyx, 
tubular-connate ; ;: S coriaceous, irregularly cylindrical, straight 
or curved, almost sessile, acuminate, 1-2 in. long, smooth, or na 
dried state striolate, indehiscent or "nearly so; seeds irregularly 
oblong, oblique. 
Has.—Frequently cultivated in villages se over Burma, more panes; in 
CaS. 
Prome and Ava, and here often semi-spontaneous.—Fl. Jan.—l.—8S.—= 
Ks.—Wood very hard and tough, smh used in India for ship-knees, 
ak Seen, ad similar pu A delicious perfume is distilled from the 
rposes. 
flowers. Exudes a considerable quantity of a sort of white gum-arabic. 
2. A. leucophlea, Willd. ; Bedd. Sylv. Madr. t. 48 ; Brand. For. 
Fl. 184, t. 27.—Ta-nou ng—A leaf-shedding tree (50—60 + 8—25 
+ the lower branches fearfully armed with paired, straight, 
sharp, blackish, stipulary spines of 3-1 in. length, the young shoots 
pubescent or almost glabrous; leaves abruptly bipinnate, 3-4 in. 
long, with 4-7 pairs of pinnz, the rachises pubescent or almost 
glabrous ; leaflets in 12-30 pairs, obliquely linear-oblong, blunt or 
acute, 3-4 lin. long, rigidly chartaceous, glabrous or slightly 
merce 5 flowers minute, sessile, yellowish, in globular heads of 
the size of a pea or pepper-kernel, on 2-3 lin. long pubescent or 
esis slender or robust peduncles bracted at middle, arranged in 
an ample leafless awe or puberulous panicle at the end of the 
branchlets ; calyx about 4 lin. long, like corolla eines eae 
Has. —Not — in the dry forests of Prome ; also Ava.—Fr. March.— 
1—SS.—CaS 
3. Kivu, Buch. ; Brand. For. Fl. 187 U. catechu, Bedd. Sylv. 
Madr. +t. 49).—An evergreen (?) tree (30—40+ 12—20+4+3—4), 
the shoots and young parts all greyish pubescent, the stem remark- 
ably white and armed with occasional woody — terminated 
by a prickle, the branches prickly from paired usually straight, 
sharp, stipulary spines; leaves abruptly bipinnate, 4-10 in. long, 
with 10-30 pairs of pinne, the Somers ges greyish pubescent ; 
leaflets in ce to 50 arth ,» linear, acute, not | or slightly 
ish pobesount spikes in the axils of no oe: ex about a line 
long, greyish velvety ; corolla only a little longer than the calyx 
