Botanical Name - Acacia eburnea

----- A. eburnea, Willd. ; F.B.I. II-292. Brandi's Ind Trees, 264. Gamble's Ind. Timbers, 294. Vern. Marmat Hind. Mar.

----- A small deciduous tree or large shrub. Bark rough, dark grey, branches armed with straight stipular spines, mostly stout, generally dark-brown and about 1/2 in. long., the larger ones ivory-white and 1-2 in. long. Leaves small, clothed with long hairs; pinnae 4-8, usually 4 pairs; all or at least two pairs, with a gland at the insertion. Leaflets 8-12, pairs, acute. Flowers yellow with an unpleasant smell, in axillary globose heads, about 1/2-in. diam., fasciculate, reddish-brown while in bud; membranous bracts below the middle of the peduncle. Pods linear, slender, flat, veined, generally 2-4 from one flower-head, 2-5 in. long by 1/4 in. wide, edges undulate, slightly contracted between the seeds.

----- A pretty tree, nowhere very common; found in the drier parts of Nanded and Parbhani towards Berar, and South in towards the Krishna. Wood hard, yellowish-white, often with a red heart-wood. Not used except as fuel; weight about 54 lbs. per c. ft. Flowers November to March.