Albizzia.] LEGUMINOSM. 321 



"broad, linear-oblong, blunt at both ends, flat, compressed, smooth and 

 ■ glossy, straw-coloured with pale-brown patches over the seeds ; sutures 

 slightly thickened. Seeds 4-12, pale-brown. 



Indigenoiis in Dehra Dun and in the Saharanpur forests, and along the 

 base of the Himalaya in Rohilkhand and N. Oudh, planted extensively 

 in other parts of the area. Djstrib, W. Himalaya up to 5,000 ft. and 

 eastward to the Khasia Hills, Bengal, C. and S. India to Ceylon ; also 

 in Burma, the Andamans, Malaya, China, N. Australia and Trop. Africa, 

 but often cultivated in those and in other countries. Flowers in April 

 and May. 'the pods ripen in October, and remain for a long time on 

 the tree. The dark-brown heartwood is tough and durable, and is used 

 for a variety of purposes. The bark, leaves, flowers and seeds are 

 employed medicinally. The leaves afford excellent fodder, and the 

 tree is in some places cultivated for this purpose. A pellucid gum 

 exudes from cracks in the bark. 



3. A. odoratissima, Benth. in Hoolc. Journ. Bot. Hi (1844), 88 ; D. ^ G. 

 Bomh. n. 83 ; Brand. For. Fl. 175 ; F. B. I. ii, 299 ; Watt E. D. Acacia 

 odoratissima, Willd. ; W. &■ A. Prod. 275. Mimosa odoratissima, Linn. ; 

 Roxh. ; Fl. Ind. ii, 546. — Vern. Siris, Icali siris. 



A tall erect unarmed tree, with dark-grey bark. Leavee evenly 2-pinnate. 

 rac/iis 6-12 in. long, finely downy, with a large sessile gland near the 

 base, and 1-2 smaller ones between the upper pairs of pinnss ; stipules 

 small, deciduous ; pinnce 3-4 pairs, 5-8 in. long ; leaflets 8-20 pairs, f-1 

 in. long, sessile, obliquely oblong, obtuse, rigidly subcoriaceous, dark- 

 green and almost glabrous above, glaucous and appressed-pubescent 

 beneath, midrib parallel to upper edge and not far removed from it. 

 Heads small, few-flowered, arranged in a terminal panicle ; peduncles 

 f in., slender, puberolous, usually in fascicles on the small corymbose 

 branchlets. Flovjers sessile, j-1 in. across, yellowish-white with pale- 

 yellow stamens, fragrant. Calyx hairy, teeth obscure. Corolla 3 times 

 as long as the calyx, silky, segments ovate-lanceolate. Pod, 6-9 in. and 

 about i in. wide, thin, flexible, reddish-brown, indehiscent, 8-1 2-seeded. 



Forests of Dehra and Siwalik range, Bundelkhand and Merwara. Distrib. 

 Sub- H imalayan tract west to the Indus, Bengal, C. and S. India to 

 Ceylon, and in Burma. Flowers April to June. The tree is never 

 quite leafless. The dark-brown heartwood is very hard, and is largely 

 used for cart-wheels, oil-mills, etc. The bark and leaves are medicinal, 

 A dark-brown gum exudes from the bark. The foliage affords good 

 fodder for cattle. 



Vab. mollis, Benth., is mentioned in the Fl. Brit. Ind. I.e. as having been 

 collected by Thomson in Rohilkhand, and by Edgeworth on the Siwalik 

 range. It differs by having densely greydowny leaflets and leaf-rachises 

 the former being less rigid than in the type. I have seen no specimen. 



4. A. procera, Benth. in Hook. Journ. Bot. Hi {1844) 89 ; Brand. For. 

 Fl. 175, t. xxvi ; F. B. I. ii, 299 ; Watt E. D. ; Prain in Journ. As. 8oc. 

 Beng. LXVI, part ii, 513. Mimosa procera, Boxh. Fl. Ind. ii, 548. M. elata, 

 Roxh. I. c, 546 ; Royle. 111. ii?i.— Vern. Safed siris, larha, dun siris. 



