AcACii.] LBGVMINOSM, 315 



in diam. fragrant. Corolla twice as long as calyx. Pod 2-3 in., distinctly- 

 stalked, straight, thin, flat, broadly ligulate, glahrous, grey, dehiscent ; 

 sutures not indented. Seeds 5-6, in a single row. 



In ravines and dry water-courses in the districts of Agra and Merwara. 

 DiSTEiB. Plains of Punjab, ascending to 3,000 ft. on the outer Himalaya, 

 Sind, Eajpatana, Gujarp^t, and in the C. Provinces in the rocky beds 

 of rivers. Flowers Feb.- May. The bark yields a gum, and it is also 

 used in tanning. The leaves are stored as fodder. It would make an 

 excellent and handsome hedge-plant. 



5. A. tomentosa, ^Villd. Sp. Pk iv, 1087 ; W. ^ A. Prod. 276 ; B. Sf G. 

 Bomb. Fl. 86 ; F. B. I. ii, 294 ; Watt E. D. Mimosa tomentosa, Roxh. ; 

 Fl. Ind. ii, 558. 



A small tree with yellowish-grey bark. Branchlets and leaf-racMses 

 densely grey-pubescent. Spines straight, up to o^ in. long, broad-based, 

 pubescent when young, becoming glabrous and nearly black. Leaves 

 evenly 2-piiinate ; racliis with an oblong gland below the lowest pair of 

 pinnae, and smaller ones between 1 or 2 of the upper ; pinnce 6-12 pairs, 

 1-2 in. long ; leaflets 15-30 pairs, ^-^ in. long, broadly oblong, mem- 

 branous or sub coriaceous, tomentose on both sides, if eo-ds about ^ in. 

 :across, arranged in terminal panicles ; peduncles stout, pubescent, 

 bracteate about the middle. Flowers white. Corolla twice the calyx. 

 Pod 4-6 in. long, ligalate-falcate, thin, dry, dehiscent, with straight 

 sutures, grey-downy, 6-10- seeded. 



Bundelkhand (Mrs. Bell). Distbib. Bengal to S. India and Ceylon ; 

 also m Java. Flowers about the beginning of the cold season, 



6. A. leucophlcea, Willd. Sp. PI. iv, 1083 ; W. Sf A. Prod. 277 ; Boyle, 

 III. 182 ; B. 4- G. Homh. Fl. 86 ; Brand. For. Fl. 184, t. xxvii ; F. B. I. ii, 

 294 ; Watt E. B. — Vern. Safed Icikar, reru, rav/tig, arinj, harir, nimhar, 

 jhind. 



A medium-sized grey- tomentose thorny tree. Spines ^-1 in. long, strong, 

 straight, white. Leaf-rachis downy; pinnce 6-12 pairs, 1-1-|- in. long; 

 glands small, cup-shaped; Jea^etsl5— 30 pairs, crowded, ^-g in. long, 

 linear, rigidly coriaceous. Heads about i in. in diam., in large terminal 

 panicles a foot long or more ; bracts 2, at about the middle of each 

 pedicel. Corolla very small, pale-yellow or almost white. Pod 4-6 in. 

 long, narrowly ligulate, curved, sub indehis cent, clothed with persistent 

 pale-brown or grey tomentum, 8-12-seeded, sutures not indented. 



Abundant in the drier parts of the Doab, also in Eohilkhand, Bundel- 

 khand and Merwara. Distbib. Punjab, Eajputana, C. India and 

 south to Ceylon ; also in Burma and in the Malay Islands. Flowers 

 during the hot and rainy seasons. Brandis mentions that on the dry 

 hills of Merwara it is often reduced to a mere shrub, with 2-4 pairs of 

 pinnse and S-lO pairs of leaflets ; whilst in the Punjab it hasibeen known 

 to attain a height of ^'0 ft. and girth of 15 ft. The gum yielded by this 

 plant is used in native medicines, and the leaves and bark are used in dye- 

 ing ; the fibre obtained from the bark is made into ropes and fishing-nets ; 

 the young pods and seeds, and even the pounded bark mixed with flour, 



