ll'B 50EEST TEEES. 



also for rice pounders, oil and sugar mills, agri- 

 cultural implements and even buildings when large 

 timber is procurable. But in addition to its great 

 hardihood, and general utility as a small timber and 

 ■fuel tree, the species affords Indian gum arabic, 

 tan, dye, fibre, food and medicine. Extensively 

 planted in fuel plantations where it coppices well 

 and is reproductive from seed. The tender pods 

 and leaves are much relished by all sorts of cattle. 

 The tree flowers early in the hot season and produces 

 ripe seed in August. 



Cultivation.— Although hardy enough to exist 

 and make some growth in the poorest soils, it is as- 

 sumed that Jali succeeds best in a black cotton soil. 

 For the growth of fuel the seedlings should be plant- 

 ed at about 8 feet apart, permanent saphngs being 

 eventually left at 16 feet apart. Beddome found 

 that rats are very partial to the tender roots of 

 seedlings. 



245 Acacia leucophlaea, Willd. Kan. Biii jali, Topai, 



Beala, Tumbe, 



Fig.-Bedd. Fl. Sylv. t. 48. 

 References.— i?/. of Bnt. Ind.; Did. of Ecm. 

 Prod, oflnd. ; Drury U. PI. 

 A large, deciduous tree, with numerous white prick- 

 les, and light grey to whitish bark. Common in 

 fields and waste places, especially in central and 

 east Mysore, T^-here it sometimes covers many acres 

 of land alihost to the exclusion of other trees. Of 

 globose-flowered Acacias, this species is easilv deter- 

 mined by its paniculate inflorescence. Sap wood 

 predommatmg, heartwood dark, toxigh, easily season- 

 ed and susceptible of a fine pohsh. Weight about 

 5d lb. per cubic foot. A capital fuel tree and verv 

 productive from coppice. Bark used in distiUing 

 arrack, the tannin in it precipitating the albuminous 

 matter m the juice. Brandis says « the young pods 



