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5. A. Jacquemonti, Benth. ; Brandis F. M. 183. Vern. Eatabaulij Gruz. 



A bushy shrub; perfectly glabrous; branches flexuose, browiij shining. 

 Stipular spines straight, white, 1-2 in. long. Pinnse 2-4 pair; leaflets 

 obtuse, yfleshy, 5-10 pair. Fl. heads yellow, sweet-scented ; peduncles 5-10, 

 fasciculate ; a pair of small scaly bracts about the middle. Pod stalked, thin, 

 flat, glabrous, 2-3 by | in. 



Trans - Indus. Punjab plains and Outer Himalaya ascending to 3,000 ft. Sind, 

 Eajputana, Guzerat (the dwarf Babul of Rajputana and Guzerat). Fl. Febr.-May. 

 6. A. tomentosa, Willd. ; Trimen Handbook Ceylon ii. 124. Lower Bengal. Western 

 Peninsula, doubtful. Ceylon, dry region ; a small bushy tree ; branches and 1. tomen- 

 tose ; thorns from a stout base, up to 3| in. long ; pinnae 6-10, leaflets 8-16 pair. Pod 

 falcate, pubescent while young, somewhat torulose, 4-5 by ^ in. 



7. A leucophloea, Willd. ; Bedd. Fl. Sylv. t. 48; Brandis P. PL t. 27.— 

 Syn. Mimosa leucophloia, Roxb. Cor. PL t. 150. Vern. Einj, arinj, Hind. ; 

 Eaeru, Pb. ; Heivar, M^r. ; Telia tuma^ Tel.; Velvaylam^ Tarn.; Tanaung^ 

 Burm. 



A deciduous, thorny tree ; trunk often crooked and gnarled. Bark grey or 

 light brown, when old almost black and very rough. Heart-wood red dish- brown, 

 extremely hard. Spines straight, strong. Pinnae 5-10 pair; leaflets 12-25 

 13air, grey, linear, \--\ in. long, glabrous or pubescent. Fl. heads pale yellow, 

 nearly white, in large terminal, leafless densely tomentose panicles ; peduncles 

 short. Pods linear, 4-6 by \ in., clothed with dense brown velvet. 



Siwalik hills, Jumna to Ravi. Plains of the Punjab. Eajputana, Bundelkhand, the 

 Satpura range, Northern Circars and the Deccan. Dry region of the Ira,waddi valley 

 from Prome to Mandalay. Fl. Aug.-Nov. 



Most, but not all, Burma specimens have large leaflets, J-J in. long, rachis and 

 leaflets glabrous, pods glabrous, 4 in. wide. These Prain (1 c. 507) prefers to con- 

 sider as a distinct species, A. microcephala, Graham. 



8. A. Kingii, Prain in Journ. As. Soc. Bengal (1898), 66, 506. Shan hills. Upper Burma. 

 A tree 30-40 ft. ; stipular spines weak, minute ; common petiole pubescent, 2-3 in. long; 

 pinnae 9-10 pair, 1 in. long. Leaflets minute, 11-14 pair. Peduncles | in. long, hairy, 

 a ring of bracteoles above the middle ; filaments united at the base. 9. A. (?) inopinata, 

 Prain I.e. 507. Shan hills. Unarmed ; com- 

 mon petiole glabrous, 8-10 in. long ; pinnae 

 6-7 pair, 2-3 in. long; leaflets J in. long, 

 10-11 pair. Fl. heads in terminal panicles ; 

 stamens monadelphous, filaments united in a 

 tube beyond the middle. 8 and 9 possibly not 

 Acacia. 



B. Trees or shrubs ; stipules spines- 

 cent ; fl. in spikes. 



10. A. Latronum, Willd.; Wight 

 Ic. t. 1157. Vern. Jala, Tel. : Odai^ 

 Tarn. 



A gregarious shrub, sometimes a small 

 tree ; thorns of two kinds, thin solid 

 short and stout, hollow, ivory-white, 

 2 in. long and J-i in. diam. at base. 

 L. fasciculate on arrested branchlets ; 

 pinnse 3-5 pair, f-1 in. long, leaflets 

 12-18 pair, minute. PI. fragrant, white 

 at first, turning yellow afterwards, in 

 lax spikes 1^-2 in. long. Pods thin, 

 dehiscent, broadly falcate, obtuse at the 

 ends, dark brown, shining, 11-2 in. by 



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Dry hills of the Deccan, covering large 

 tracts with a formidable thorny scrub. Fl. 

 P. S., C. S. Fio. 115. Acacia Latronum, Willd. | 



