ACACIA FARNESIANA. (Nat, ord. Leguminosae. Sub-order Mimosese.) 



•Cor Gen. Char, see uudei' "Acacia Arabica.'' 



■ACACIA x ARNESIANA. (Willd.) A small tree much branched glabrous or slightly pubescent on the petioles and pe- 

 duncles; leaves bipinnate, pinuse 4-8 pair with a gland between the lower and often between the uppermost pair, leaflets 10-20 pair 

 linear about 2 liues long, stipules converted into slender straight thorns very variable in length, the tree otherwise unarmed, peduncles 

 usually 2 or 3 together in the older axils, each bearing a single globular head of yellow sweet scented flowers, polygamous bisexual and 

 male, calyx 5-toothed, corol tubular gamosepalous 5 (rarely 6) toothed, stamens very numerous distinct, legume thick, irregularly cylin- 

 drical or fusiform turgid, indehiscent filled with a pithy substance in the midst of which lie a double row of seed. — Willd. Sp. iv. p. 1083, 

 Mimosa Farnesiana. Roxb. F\. Ind. ii. p. 557. Vachellia Farnesiana, W. A. Prod. p. 272. 



Apparently indigenous all over the Madras Presidency, Mysore, Bombay, Bengal, but supposed to be of American origin, and to have 

 been naturalized and run wild, it is also found in Africa and aV. Australia, it is called Kusturi and Odd sale in Teligoo, Ytdda, va'la in Tamil, 

 Jalli in Canarese and Iri babul in Bombay. The wood is very hard and tough, and is used for ship knees, tent pegs, ploughs, &c. &c. A 

 considerable quantity of gum exudes from the trunk, and a delicious perfume is made from the sweet scented yellow flowers; it makes a good 

 lenceif properly pruned, and the tree will grow up to an elevation of 5000 feet. 



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