Acacia.] 



LEGUMINOS^. 



313 



Pod l3roadly ligulate, sutures not 

 repand 



4. A. Jacquemontii. 



Leaflets 15-30 pairs, tomentose on 



both sides . • • . 5. A, tomentosa. 



Heads in terminal panicles . . .6. 

 Flowers in peduncled spikes ; prickles 

 short, hooked. 

 Pod dehiscent ..... 7. 



Pod indehiscent. 

 Stipular prickles 3, pinnae 3-5 pairs . 8. 



Stipular prickles 2, pinnae 2-3 pairs . 9. 



•Climbing shrubs with scattered prickles, 

 flowers in panicled globose heads. 

 Pod thick, indehiscent 



A. leucojphlc 



A. Catechu. 



A. Senegal. 

 A. modest a. 



10. A. concinna. 



Pod thin, flat, dehiscent. 

 Leaflets 8-12 pairs, glabrous on both 



surfaces . . . . . 11. A. Intsia. 



Leaflets 20-30 pairs, crowded, always 

 hairy beneath . . . . . 12. A. ccesia. 



Leaflets 40-50 pairs, crowded, very 

 narrow, glabrous on both surfaces . 13. A. jpennata. 



1. A. Farnesiana, Willd. 8p. PI. iv, 10S3 ; Royle III. 181 ; Brand. For. 

 Fl. 180 ; F.B.I, ii, 292 ; Watt F.D. Mimosa Farnesiana, Linn.; Eoxb.; Fl. 

 Ind. ii, 557. Vachellia Farnesiana, W. Sf A. Prod. 273.— Vern. Valayati 



hikar. 



A shrub or small tree, with slender zigzag branches marked with grey 

 dots. Stijpular sfines 5-^ in. long, persisting and lengthening on the 

 older branches, straight, white and polished. Bachis of leaves 1-1^ in., 

 with a mimite petiolar gland, downy ; jpinnce 4-8 pairs, l-V^ in. ; leaflets 

 10-20 pairs, i in. long, linear-oblong, rigidly coriaceous, subglabrous, 

 green. Peduncles crowded on axillary nodes, slender, puberulous, with 

 a ring of bracts near the apex. Floivers in heads, bright-yellow, 

 fragrant. Calyx very minute ; teeth short, obtuse. Pod 2-3 in. long, 

 thick, cylindrical, dull-brown, horizontally striate, sutures straight! 

 Seeds 2-seriate, mesocarp pulpy. 



Abundant within the area, both cultivated and naturalized, also through- 

 out India and in the tropics generally. Indigenous in Trop. America. 

 Flowers Jan.— March. The delicious perfume obtained from the blos- 

 soms by distillation is in great demand, and the plant is largely grown 

 for this purpose in the south of France. The tree also yields a very 

 high-class gun)» superior in some respects to gum-arabic, it makes a 

 good hedge. 



