oS a fine polish. O’=56-70. Be loyed for ts an 
_ spear and sword handles, =, &e. There a 
422 LEGUMINOSZ. [ Acacia, 
puberulous ; pods linear-oblong, rigidly coriaceous, greyish brown, 
tapering in a short stalk, acuminate, 2-3 in. long, glabrous. 
Has.—Ava. 
4. A. catechu, Willd. ; Brand. For. Fl. 186 (4. sundra, Roxb. ; 
Bedd. Syly. Mae t. 50) —Sha.—A tree (50—60 + 15—25+ 4—6), 
shedding leaves in H.S., the branchlets armed with paired, short, 
but sharp, usually curved or almost straight, blackish, often some- 
what dilated stipulary spines, the younger parts more or less pubes- 
cent or almost glabrous; bark brown, cracked, peeling off in long 
flakes which remain hanging, and hence the trunk often appears some- 
what scaly ; cut red; leaves abruptly bipinnate, 4-6 in. long, with 10- 
20 pairs of pinne, the rachis more or less pubescent or when full grown 
sometimes quite glabrous; leaflets in 20-40 pairs, sessile, lmear, 
about 2 lin. long, rigidly chartaceous, blunt or acute, ciliate or quite 
glabrous ; flowers small, yellow, sessile, forming more or less elon- 
gate, shortly pubescent or shuns spikes arising solitary or by 2-3 
from the axils of the leaves ; calyx 4 a line long, toothed, pubescent 
or glabrous; corolla Satay or aoe rs twice as long as the calyx, 
glabrous or nearly so ; pods Japadl payee very flat, acuminate 
at both ends and tapering in a short stalk, 2-3 in. long, black or 
brown, often glossy ; seeds compressed, sone brown. 
Var. 1. Catechu proper; young parts all slightly appressed 
pubescent, soon glabrescent ; ally recurved and 
blackish ; leaves when full grown elabrous ¢ or the leaflets ciliate, the 
ian ae ad ee pubescent ; spikes shorter and thicker, along with 
als See or less appressed pubescent ; corolla about 
eee as 2 ae as ihe ak 
Var. 2. Sundra re a DC.) ; all parts glabrous or the very 
young shoots slightly pubescent ; stipulary spines usually short and 
eurved, blackish; leaves and their rachis when grown quite 
glabrous; spikes elongate and slender, along with the ealyx quite 
glabrous ; corolla glabrous, about 3 longer than the calyx. 
hepa common all over Ava and Prome, xtending into the Irra- 
waddi zone of Pegu, especially in the dry forests, vathck rare in the lower mixed 
walk amrascadr fered: var. 2 apparently in Ava.—FL. begin, of R.S.; Fr. C.S.— 
I1—SS.=Ca8. All. 
ReMaRxKs.—Sap-wood yellowish white, in bulk according to age 
from 3 and more inches to 1 inch sathcnen cubis heavy, fibrous, but close- 
grained ; the heart-wood similar, but dark-brown, ve vey strong and durable ; takes 
or railway sleepers. Kutch or catechu (Terra japonica of commerce) 
akan resin. 
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