294 L. liEGTTMiNOSiB'. (J. G. Baker.) - [Acacia^ 



Plains of the North "West provinces. 



General habit of A. ebumea, from which it mainly differs in the pod. Spines- 

 slender, reaching 1^2 in. long. Pinnie J-J in. long; leaflets grey-green, snb- 

 glabrons, rigidly coriaceous. Heads yeUow, J in. diam. Corolla ^ in., twice the- 

 length of the calyx. Pod straight, flexible, grey, 2-3 in. by ^ in., S-6-seededr. 

 with a stalk J-J in. long. 



6. A. tomentosa, WiUd.; DC. Prodr. ii. 462; pinnsB 12-24, leaflets- ■ 

 4CM!0, heads axillary, pod thin flat ligulate-falcate dry dehiscent with straight 

 sutures thinly grey-downy. Wall. Cat. 5247 ; W. ^ A. Prodr. 276. Bedd.. 

 Fl. Sylv. 95 ; Balz. Sr Gibs. Bomb. Fl. 86. A. chrysocoma, Miq. Flor. Ind. 

 Bat. i. 6. Mimosa tomentosa, Roxb. Sort. Beng. 41 ; Fl. Ind. ii. 558. M. 

 Kleinii, Pmr. Diet. Suppl. i. 82. 



Western PEifiNStrLA and Cetlon. ' ^ 



A small tree, with the branchlets and leaf-rachises densely clothed with fine grey - 

 pubescence, the latter with several glands. Pinna 1-2 in. long; leaflets i-J in., 

 grey-green, more or less downy, membranous or snbcoriaceous. Developed spines 

 1-2 in. long, spreading, brown, not white. Heads purple, i in. diam. ; peduncles 

 stout, densely downy, with a medial involucre. Calyx i in., funnel-shaped, grey- 

 downy. Corolla subcylindrical, twice the length of the calyx. Pod 4-6 in. by \ in.,_ 

 short-stalked, 6-1 0-seeded. 



7. A. leucoplileea, WiUd.; DC. Prodr. ii. 462; pinnse 12-24, leaflets. - 

 30-60, heads in ample terminal panicles, pod narrow ligulate falcate thin flat 

 tomentose with straight sutures. Wall. Cat. 5261 ; W. ^ A. Prodr. 277 ; DaU. 

 4- Gihs. Bomb. Fl. 86 ; Bedd. Fl. Sylv. t. 48. A. alba, Willd. ; DC. loc. dit. 

 A. arcuata, Decaisne Serb. Timor. Desor. 133. Mimosa leucophlsea, Roxb^ 

 Car. PL 1. 150 ; Fl. Ind. ii. 658. Mimosa alba, BA)ttl. in Nov. Act. Ber. 1803,. 

 208. 



North West provinces to Cetion and Bihma. — Disthib. Malay isles, Timor; 



Esisily recognisable from all the foregoing by its panided inflorescence. SpinCF' 

 ^1 in., white. Z«o/-rachises downy, with several glands ; pinnae 1-lJ in. long ; 

 leaflets crowded, rigidly coriaceous, ^-^ in. Panicle reaching a foot long and broad, . 

 with long compound densely tomentose ascending blanches, the lower only from 

 leafy nodes ; heads yeUow, not more than J in. diam. ; peduncles with the bract - 

 medial, the upper very short. Corolla under ^ in. Pod 4-8 in. by |-| in., sessile,, 

 subindehiscent, clothed with pale brown ol grey persistent tomentum. 



Vae. microe^hala. Grab, in Wall. Cat. 6263, sp..; leaf-rachis glabrous, leaflets-, 

 much larger J-| in. long. A. densa, Wall. Cat. 5262. — Birma, fVallich. 



Sertes U. GummlferaB spicatae. Erect trees. Spines short and'- 

 hooked, except in A. Latronum. Stipules spinesoent. Flowers in peduncled- 

 spikes in the axils of the leaves. 



8. A. Suxna, Kurz in Brand. For. FI.-187 ; spines in .pairs short hooked,.' 

 pinnae 20-40, leaflets 60-100 small ligulate, rachises densely downy, corolla 

 scarcely exceeding the canescent calyx, pod strap-shaped straight. Benth. in 

 Linn. Trans, xxx. 519. A. Oatechu, W. ^ A. Prodr. 272 {exel. syn.) ; Benth. in 

 Sooh. Land. Joum. 1842, 510 ; Dalz. 8f Gibs. Bomb. Fl. 86 ; Bedd. Fl. Sylv. 

 :t. 49. A. Sundra, Wall. Cat. 5227. Mimosa Suma, Boxb. Sort. Beng. ^1; 

 Fl. Ind. ii. 563. Mimosa frondosa and tamariscina, Seyne MSS. M. albida, 

 Ito.vb. MSS. 



Bbngai,, Behae, Western Peninstjia, Cetlon. 



A middle-sized tree, with white bark and downy branchlets. iefflZ-rachis ^ ft. 

 long, with a large basal gland and smaller ones between several of the upper pinnse ; 

 pinnse 1^-2 in. long ;- leaflets very close, rigidly subcoriaceous, pale green,- under 

 ^ in, long. SpiJces 1-4-nate, 3-4 in. long. Calyx ys-ts m.>'.denBely' grey-downy r. 



