320 L:Ea UMINOSM. [ A lbizzia. 



1. A. stipulata. Boiv. Encycl., XIX, Siecle ii, 33 ; D. ^ G. Bomb. 

 Fl 88; Brand. For. Fl. 178 ; F. B. I. ii, 300 ; Watt E. p. ; Prain in 

 Journ. As. 8oc. Beng. LXVI, part ii, 255, 515. Acacia stipulata, DC. ; 

 W. Sf A. Prod. 274; Boyle III. 181. Mimosa stipulacea, Roxh. Fl. Ind. 

 ii, 549. — Yern. Siran. 



A large flat-topped quick-growing tree with dark-grey rugose bark. 

 Stem 3-1 ft. thick. Young shoots finely grey-downy. Leaves evenly 

 pinnate ; rachis 6-lS in. long, with a large sessile gland above the base 

 and smaller ones between the pinnae, pubescent ; stipules 1-1^ in., 

 obliquely cordate-acuminate, velvety beneath, pubescent above ; 'pinnae 

 6-2 ' pairs, "^|-4 in. long; leaflets 20-45 pairs, 5-5 in. long, sessile, 

 narrowly falcate, acute, membranous, glabrous and pale-green above, 

 glaucous and downy beneath, the midrib very close to the upper margin. 

 Beads in axillary panicled racemes. Bracts § in. long, ovate-acumi- 

 nate, pubescent, caducous. Flowers \-{ in. long, shortly stalked, yello- 

 wish-white, the free portion of the filaments usually tinged with pink. 

 Calyx densely hairy outside ; teeth short, acute. Corolla I in. long, 

 densely hairy outside, segments lanceolate, acute. Pod 5-6 in. long, |-i 

 in. wide, thin, rigid, pale-brown, indehiscent, 8-10-seeded. 



■Typical A. stipulata probably occurs here and there in the !^ub- 

 Himalayan forest tracts of Rohilkhand and Oudh. Distrib. Tropical W". 

 Himalaya east to Sikkim, ascending to 4,000 ft., and south to Ceylon ; 

 also in the nndaman and Nicobar Islands, Burma, Malay Penins. 

 and Islands. Flowers April to June. The tree yields a gum, which 

 the Nepalese use for sizing the paper they make from Daphne. The 

 foliage is lopped for fodder. The heartwood is brown, but not very 

 durable. 



Tar. Smithiana. Prain in Journ. As. 80c. Beng. I.e. Mimosa 

 Smithiana, J?oa;&. ; Fl. Ind. Hi 550.— Yevn. Bhandir.- A. tall tree with 

 almger trunk and narrower head than in the type. Bark greenish- grey, 

 sm;)oth and wrinkled. Stipules much smaller. Stamens greenish.— 

 Dehra Dun in swampy places (Kanjilal), probably also in Eohilkhand 

 and N. Oudh. Distbib. Sylhet (Roxburgh), 



«. A. Lebliek, Benth. in Hooh. Journ. Bot . i§: (1844), 87; D. Sf G. 

 Bomb. Fl. 88 ; Bran<^. For. Fl. 176 ; F. B. I. ii, 298 ; Watt t!-. B. Acacia 

 speciosa, Willd. ; W. 8f A. Prod. 275 ; Royle J II. l81. Mimosa Serissa, 

 Roxh.; Fl- Ind. ii, 544.— Yern. Siris, sirsa. 



A large unarmed deciduous tree, with greyish bark. Leaves evenly 2- 

 pinnate ; rachis 3-9 in. long, with a large sessile gland near the base 

 and 2-3 interpinnular ones; piniice 2-3 pairs, -* in. long; leaflets ^-9 

 pairs, subsessile, 1-2 in. long, obliquely elliptic-oblong or obovate- 

 oblong, obtuse or retuse, glabrous or slightly pubescent beneath, pale- 

 green. Flowers Ik in. across, white, fragrant ; peduncles solitary or 

 2-4 together from the axils of the upper leaves, or corymbose at the 

 ends of short leafless branches ; pedicels slender, puberulous. Calyx 

 about i in. ; teeth short, deltoid. Corolla twice as long as the calyx, 

 tube glabrous ; lobes ovate-lanceolate, hairy ( utside ; filaments rose- 

 coloured, united within the calyx-tube. Pod 4-12 in. long by 1-2 in. 



