ACACIA FERRUGINEA (Nat. ord. Leguminos®, Sub -order Mimose».) 



lor Geu. Char, see under "A. Arabica." 



ACACIA FERRUGINEA. (Roxb.) A middling sized tree, 20-30 feet high, bark deeply cracked, dark rusty colored ; 

 armed with stipulary conical thorns, occasionally unarmed, branches diffuse, leaves glabrous bipinnate, pimiee 3-6 pair with one gland on 

 the petiole and one between each of the 1-2 estreine pairs, leaflets 10-20 pair oblong linear obtuse, spikes axillary, usually in pairs 

 cylindrical many flowered, corol 5 cleft, stamens numerous free or slightly united at the very base, legumes flat lanceolate obtuse hard 

 2-6 seeded. D. C. prod. ii. p. 468. W. A. Trod. p. 273. Mimosa ferruginea. Roxb. Fl. hid. ii. 561, 



This tree much resembles Acacia Catechu and Sandra and differs chiefly in the smaller number of pinnae ; it is common in the jungles 

 throughout the Madras Presidency ,in Mysoreand Birrnah, it is called Ansandra and Woonee inTeligoo, Vel Veylum in Tamil,andSitnetin Birmah ; 

 it flowers in April and May, the barh is very astringent, and is used by the natives in the distillation of arrack from jaggery in the same xoay as 

 the baric of A. leucophlcea. The wood is of a reddish brown, streaked with a darker hue, heavy and durable, and does not warp or crack, the grain 

 rather coarse and even, vjorks well and gives a smooth surface; it. is used in building and in the construction of carts, ploughs, <&c; it weighs 60 lbs. 

 per cubic foot when seasoned and 65-70 lbs. unseasoned, and has a specific gravity of -960. 





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