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55. Acacia Catechu. Sha. 



Medium tree with thin crown. Bark dark 

 coloured, with long, vertical, shallow fissures. 

 Twigs purple, glabrous, often armed with pairs of 

 hooked prickles at the base of 1. L. small, nearly 

 glabrous, with numerous small leaflets ^" long ; 

 a gland on main stalk near base and sometimes 

 others at junctions of main pinnae. Fl. in yellow 

 tassels. Pod thin, brown, narrow, glabrous, 2" — 5"" 

 long and §" broad. 



56. Acacia leucophloea. ' Tanaung. 



Medium tree, often with umbrella shaped crown. 

 Bark when young yellow-grey, smooth ; when 

 old dark coloured and .deeply fissured. Spines 

 straight, long. Leaflets not so numerous as in 

 No. 55, often grey-green, velvety, shining glands 

 at junctions of primary pinnae. , Fl. yellowish- 

 white in balls. Pod 4" — 5" by f", light brown, 

 velvety. * 



57. Albizzia Lebbek. Kdkko. 



Bark dark ashy-grey, rough with rounded - flakes. 

 Twigs velvety. L. often hairy. Fl. white, stalked, 

 in heads on stalks 2" — 4" long. Pod thin, 

 straw-coloured, glabrous, 8" — 12" long by 

 l"-_2" broad, long persistent on tree. Seeds J". 

 Glands on leafstalks at sill junctions on main 

 axis. 



58. Albizzia odoratissima. Thitmagyi. 



Bark yellowish -grey. Twigs velvety. Leaflets 

 sometimes hairy. Fl. yellow, not stalked, in heads 

 with stalks only up to IJ" long. Pod brown, 

 6"— 8" by 1"— li", sometimes hairy. Seeds i". 

 Two glands on leaf-stalk, one near base and 

 another between top pair of main pinnae. 



