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arabic, The bark is used for tanning and dyeing, and that of the roots in the 
< preparation of native spirits. The green pods and young leaves make excellent 
fodder and the trees are in consequence often much lopped and mutilated. 
Native name Kikar or Babul. 
3. Acacia Catechu, Willd . ; FI. Br. Ind. ii. 295. A tree, 
30-40 ft. Leaves pubescent, 3-6 in. ; stipules soon falling off ; a 
pair of flattened, recurved prickles inserted below the leaf-base ; 
pinnules 10-20 pairs ; leaflets 60-100 on a pinnule, narrowly 
oblong. Flowers pale yellow, crowded in stalked, cylindric spikes 
2-4 in. long, solitary or forming small, axillary clusters. Pod 
stalked, glabrous, flat, thin, oblong, 2-3 Xj-f in., acute. 
Valleys below Simla ; May-July. — Throughout N. India, ascending to 
3000 ft. 
The hard wood is put to the same uses as that of A. arabica. The c Cutch 5 of 
commerce (native name Katha) is the heart-wood cut into chips and boiled 
down ; in the East it is eaten with Betel leaf, Piper Betle, Linn., and is exported 
to Europe for dyeing and tanning. Native name Klnair. 
4. Acacia modesta, Wall. ; FI. Br. Ind. ii. 296. A small tree. 
Leaves glabrous, grey-green, 1-2 in. ; stipules soon falling off ; 
a pair of flattened, recurved prickles inserted below the leaf-base ; 
pinnules 2-3 pairs ; leaflets 6-10 on a pinnule, obovate. Flowers 
white or pale yellow, in stalked, cylindric, drooping spikes 1-2 in. 
long, solitary or forming small, axillary clusters. Pod stalked, 
glabrous, flat, oblong, 2-3 Xj-| in. 
Sutlej valley, Suni ; April, May. — Common throughout N.W. India and the 
Punjab, ascending to 4000 ft. — Afghanistan. 
The wood is hard and durable and is used for agricultural implements ; the 
leaves are used as fodder. 
5. Acacia csesia, Wight da Arn. ; FI. Br. Ind. ii. 297, 
under A. Intsia. A climbing, pubescent shrub ; branches covered 
with small prickles. Leaves 3-12 in. ; stipules soon falling off ; 
pinnules 4-15 pairs ; leaflets 20-60 on a pinnule, narrowly 
oblong, obliquely acute. Flowers pale yellow, crowded in stalked, 
globose heads in. diam., forming large, terminal panicles. 
Pod stalked, tomentose or ultimately glabrous, flat, oblong, 4-6 
X 1 in. 
Throughout India, ascending to 4000 ft. in Kumaon ; April-August. — 
Burmah. 
45. ALB1ZZIA. In honour of Albizzi, an Italian naturalist of the 
eighteenth century. — Warm regions of Asia, Africa and Australia. 
Unarmed trees. Leaves 2 -pinnate ; rachises usually bearing 
a gland near the base and between one or more pairs of the 
leaflets ; stipules usually small and soon falling off, large and 
more persistent in A. stipulata ; pinnules opposite or nearly so ; 
leaflets sessile, opposite, entire, unequal-sided. Flowers ^-1| in. 
