. Indian trees : an account of trees, shrubs, woody climbers, bamboos, and palms indigenous or commonly cultivated in the British Indian Empire. Trees. Acacia] XLV. 265 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. Pu
. Indian trees : an account of trees, shrubs, woody climbers, bamboos, and palms indigenous or commonly cultivated in the British Indian Empire. Trees. Acacia] XLV. 265 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. 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. Most, but not all, Burma specimens have large leaflets, J-J in. long
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