Botanical Name - Acacia concinna

----- A. Concinna, D.C.; F.B.I. II-296. Brandis' Ind. Trees, 269. Gamble's Ind. Trees, 291. Vern. Allah, Hind. Chika-kai, Tel.

----- An extremely thorny scandent shrub. Branchlets, petioles and peduncles tomentose or pubescent, armed with numerous sharp recurved prickles. Leaflets acid, 10-20 pairs, on each pinna with a small old one near the vase, 1/2 to 1/2 in. long, linear, from an unequal sided base, pale green above, glaucous beneath ; midrib somewhat diagonal ; pinnae 4-6 pairs, common petiole of leaf 4-8 in. long, with a large gland about 1/2 in. above the base, and a smaller one between the uppermost pinnae. Flowers yellow ; flower-buds purple ; heads in dense panicles at the ends of branches ; panicles 3-4 ft. long. interrupted with leaves at the base of the ramiofications. Pods 3-4 by about 1 in., straight, thick, fleshy 6-10 seeded, slightly indented between the seeds.

----- Met with generally in cultivation and, rarely, found growing wild on the Aurangabad ghats. The pods are used for washing the hair and the acid leaves are eaten. Flowers March to July.

Note :- The Australian Species A. dealbata, link., and A. melanoxylon R. Br. are now mostly cultivated. The Australian ------------ "black wottle A. decurrens" is providing useful in afforesting dry and arid arears.