ALBIZZIA AMARA. (Nat. order Leguminosce ; Sub-order Mimosese.) 



For Gen, Char, see under " A. LeVbek." 



ALBIZZIA AMARA. (Willcl.) A tree, unarmed ; branches terete, young shoots petioles peduncles and under side of the 

 leaflets clothed with yellowish tomentum ; leaves bipinnate, pinnae 8-10 pair with a gland on the petiole and between the last pair, 

 leaflets 20-30 pair, when old somewhat glabrous, stipules lanceolate, peduncles solitary or aggregated loDg and filiform in the axils 

 of the upper leaves and racemose from the abortion of the leaves; flowers small in globular heads, corol 5 cleft, stamens long numerous 

 monodelphous ; legumes flat thin broadly linear 3-6 seeded. Acacia amara, Willd. Sp. 4, p. 1074; — W. A. Prod. p. 274., Mimosa 

 amara, Roxb. Fl. Ind. ii, 548. 



A tolerably large tree tut of low stature, very abundant throughout the Madras Presidency, Mysore and Bombay, and also inhabits the 

 north of Ceylon. It is called Nalla renga or Nallaregoo and Narlingee in Teligu, and Woonja in Tamil; it has a maximum height of about 30 

 feet, with a girth seldom exceeding 5 or 6 feet. The ivood is dark-brown, mottled, and very handsome, strong, fibrous, and stiff, close-grained, hard and 

 durable, superior to Sal and Teak in transverse strength and direct cohesive power, it is much used by the natives for building purposes, beams, &c, 

 and in the construction of carts and ploughs, and makes excellent fuel, being most extensively cut for the Locomotives in the Salem district and along 

 the Bangalore line ; the natives use the leaves for washing their hair ; the tree grows most rapidly as coppice. 



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