ACACIA SANDBA. (Nat. ord, Legumiuosee, Sub-order Mimosese.) 



lor Gen. Char, see uuder " Acaeia Arabica." 



-A-CACIA SANDRA. (Roxb.) A tree 20-30 feet high, bark dark brown, everywhere glabrous, branches armed with coin- 

 pressed decurrent recurved stipulary prickles, sometimes entirely unarmed, leaves bipinnate, pinnse 1 5-20 pairs with a gland on the pe- 

 tiole below the lowest pair and between the extreme 1-3 pairs, leaflets 20-40 pair small linear obtuse spikes 1-3 together axillary pe- 

 duncled shorter than the leaves, cylindrical, many flowered, corol 5 cleft, stamens very numerous distinct, legumes flat thin lanceolate 

 few seeded; suture straight or occasionally emarginate between the seeds. W. A. Prod. 273. Mimosa sandra. Roxb. Fl. Ind. ii. 562. 



A middling sized tree common throughout the Madras Presidency, Bombay and Mysore, it is very nearly allied to A. catechu, and yields 

 exactly the same extract fr_om its wood, it is called Sandra andNalla Sandra in Teligoo, Karangalli andbdga in Tamil. The wood is tolerably close 

 grained and durable; of a dark red color, veined with a darker shade of streaks, it is very heavy, weighing about 96 or 98 lbs. unseasoned, and 80 

 lbs. when seasoned; its specific gravity is 1296, it is used for building purposes (beams and posls), ploughs, mortars and pestles, die., and is a good 

 wood for piles and sleepers, 



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