Botanical Name - Acacia ferruginea

----- A. ferruginea, DC.; F.B.I. II-295. Brandi's Ind. Trees, 266. Gamble's Ind. Timbers, 298. Vern. An-sandra, Val-sandra, Tel. Pandra-Khair, Mar.

----- A large deciduous tree. Bark rough, dark-coloured. Prickles twin, intra-stipular, slightly curved. Leaflets 15-30 pairs, grey, linear, 1/4-1/2 in. long; Pinnae 4-6 pairs, 2-3 in. long. Flowers pale yellow in numerous lax axillary spikes 3-4 in. long, which are often panicled at the ends of branches. Pods glabrous 3-7 in. tardily dehiscent, 4-6 seeded.

----- A tolerably common tree, but less frequently found in the Maratwada Districts than elsewhere. It is a handsome middle -sized tree. The wood is very hard, harder than of A. Catechu; sapwood large, yellowish-white; heart-wood olive-brown. Used for building carts and agriculturalimplements. Flowers just before the beginning of the rains. The growth of this species is very slow except in rich soils of a porous nature. The tree coppies fairly well.