ACROCARPUS FRAXINIFOLIUS. (Nat. ord. Leguminosse ;.Sub-ord. CsesalpinieEe ; Tribe Eucsesalpiniese.) 



ACROCARPUS. (Wight.) Gen. PL 1, p. 568.— Calyx tube campanulate, lobes 5 short lanceolate, petals 5 narrow subequal subcoriaceous, 

 subirnbricate, inserted on to the mouth of the calyx and alternate with its shorter lobes ; stamens 5 free alternate with the petals, filaments broad at the 

 base subulate elongate, authers oblong linear veisatile, cells dehiscing longitudinally ; ovary stipitate, stipe free, many ovuled, style short inftexed, stigma 

 small terminal, legume unknown. An unarmed tree, leaves very large bipinnate, leaflets ovate acuminate herbaceous, racemes axillary solitary or 2-3 at 

 the apex of the branches- — Wight's Icones PI. 254. 



ACROCARPUS FRAXINIFOLIUS. (Wight.) An immense deciduous tree, often with very large buttresses, bark light 

 grey colored, young parts aureo-pubescent, leaves glabrous bipinnate, pinnae 3 pairs with a terminal pinnae, leaflets equally pinnate 4-6 

 opposite pair ovate acuminate herbaceous 3-3-J- inches long by ] | broad, racemes many flowered, flowers dull greenish red, calyx and 

 corol minutely aureo-pubescent on the outside. 



One of the largest and loftiest trees in our Presidency, generally of very straight growth, with large buttresses at the base. It is very 

 general about the western forests, as I have observed it on the Tinnevelly and Travancore Sills, on the Anamallays, Kilgiris, Wynad, and in Coorg 

 and South Canara. It ascends from the plains up to nearly 4,000 feet, lhave measured a tree 27 feet in girth above the buttresses : the flowers appear 

 in December or January with the young leaves, or when the tree is quite destitute of foliage, but 1 have never yet been able to procure the legume or 

 seed. The timber is flesh colored and shrinki in reasoning ; it is light and much resemV.es that of the Cedrela toona, and has a cede^aceous smell ;it is 

 much used by the planters at Coonoor and in the Wynad for building purposes, furniture, &c, and in Coorg it is largely used for shingles. It is 

 known to planters by the names of shingle tree, pink cedar, and red cedar, and is called MaV.ay kone in Tinnevelly, and Kilingi by the Burghers 

 on the Nilgiris ; it is of rapid growth, and well worthy of cultivation by the Forest Department. 



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