Botanical Name - Albizzia procera

----- A. procera, Benth.; F.B.I. II-299. Brandi's Ind. Trees, 271. Gamble's Ind. Timbers, 305. Vern. Safed Siris, Hind. Pasarganni, Pachardu, Tella-chinduku, Tel. The ' White Siris.'

----- A large decicuous fast growing tree, with a deep oval graceful crown when growing in the open. Bark yellowish or greenish-white or grey, smooth with horizontal lines. Leaflets 6-10 pairs, with scattered adpressed hairs, obliquely oblong-ovate, 3/4-2 in. long, midrib nearer the lower edge, pale beneath; pinnae 3-5 pairs Flower-heads in large terminal and axillaru panicles; flowers sessile, 1/3-1/2 in. long., to extremity of stamens; Calyx tubular glabrous, more than half the length of the corolla. Corolla funnel-shaped, lobes bearded at the ends with long white hairs. Ovary glabrous, nearly sessile.

----- A very conspicuous and fairly common tree in the moistre forests, chiefly on river-banks and moist places. The smooth yellowish-white bark at once distinguishes it. Sometimes cultivated. Rarely quite leafless, foliage renewed in the hot season. Wood hard; sapwood large, yellowish-white not durable; heartwood brown, shining, with alternate belts of darker and lighter colour; very like that of A. Lebbek, and often indistinguishable from it; annual rings not usually visible. The heartwood is durable, straight and even-grained; seasons well and is used for sugar-cane crushers rice-pounders, wheels, agricultural implements and house-posts. It yields a copious gum. Flowers May to August.