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Stipules spinescent, straight or almost so, varying in length, up to 7 (–8.5) cm. long; “ant-galls” and other prickles absent. Young branchlets brown to plum-coloured, almost glabrous and with some sessile reddish glands; twigs showing conspicuous pale yellow powdery bark. Flowers varying from white or purplish to yellow or golden (see note below). Leaves: rhachis (2.5–)3–7 cm. long, glabrous to sparingly pubescent; pinnae 3–6(–8) pairs (on juvenile shoots sometimes to 10 pairs) per leaf; leaflets rather numerous, 2.5–6.5 mm. long, 0.75–1.75 mm. wide; lateral nerves invisible beneath. Tree 10–25 m. high; bark on trunk lemon-coloured to greenish-yellow. Seeds olive to blackish-olive, smooth or nearly so, subcircular to elliptic, compressed, 4.5–5.5 mm. long, 3.5–4 mm. wide; areole 3–3.5 mm. long, 2 mm. wide. Involucel conspicuous, 3–3.5 mm. long, near base of to about half-way up peduncle. Peduncles sparingly (rarely rather densely) pubescent to subglabrous, and glandular below and sometimes also above the involucel, usually (at least) on abbreviated lateral shoots whose axes do not elongate and are represented by clustered scales, the peduncles thus appearing to be in lateral fascicles on the older often yellow-barked twigs whose leaves have fallen. Pods (Fig. 16/36, p. 67) indehiscent, linear-oblong, straight or slightly curved, ± moniliform with segments mostly longer than wide, often breaking up, pale brown or brown, reticulate-venose, eglandular or sparingly glandular, (3–) 4–13.5 cm. long, 0.7–1.4 cm. wide. Calyx 1–1.5 mm. long. Young branchlets brown to plum-coloured, almost glabrous and with some sessile reddish glands; twigs showing conspicuous pale yellow powdery bark. Flowers varying from white or purplish to yellow or golden (see note below). Leaves: rhachis (2.5–)3–7 cm. long, glabrous to sparingly pubescent; pinnae 3–6(–8) pairs (on juvenile shoots sometimes to 10 pairs) per leaf; leaflets rather numerous, 2.5–6.5 mm. long, 0.75–1.75 mm. wide; lateral nerves invisible beneath. Tree 10–25 m. high; bark on trunk lemon-coloured to greenish-yellow. Seeds olive to blackish-olive, smooth or nearly so, subcircular to elliptic, compressed, 4.5–5.5 mm. long, 3.5–4 mm. wide; areole 3–3.5 mm. long, 2 mm. wide. Involucel conspicuous, 3–3.5 mm. long, near base of to about half-way up peduncle. Peduncles sparingly (rarely rather densely) pubescent to subglabrous, and glandular below and sometimes also above the involucel, usually (at least) on abbreviated lateral shoots whose axes do not elongate and are represented by clustered scales, the peduncles thus appearing to be in lateral fascicles on the older often yellow-barked twigs whose leaves have fallen. Pods (Fig. 16/36, p. 67) indehiscent, linear-oblong, straight or slightly curved, ± moniliform with segments mostly longer than wide, often breaking up, pale brown or brown, reticulate-venose, eglandular or sparingly glandular, (3–) 4–13.5 cm. long, 0.7–1.4 cm. wide. Calyx 1–1.5 mm. long.

Seeds olive to blackish-olive, 4·5-5·5 x 3·5-4 mm., smooth or nearly so, subcircular to elliptic, compressed; areole3-3·5 x 2 mm. Pods indehiscent (3)4-13·5 x 0·7-1·4 cm., linear-oblong, straight or slightly curved, ± moniliform or irregularly constricted here and there with segments mostly longer than wide, often breaking up, pale brown or brown, reticulate-venose, eglandular or sparingly glandular. Calyx 1-1·5 mm. long. Leaves: rhachis (2·5)3-8 cm. long, glabrous to sparingly pubescent; pinnae 3-6(8) pairs (on juvenile shoots sometimes to 10 pairs) per leaf; leaflets rather numerous, 2·5-6·5 x 0·75-1·75 mm.; lateral nerves invisible beneath. Stipules spinescent, varying in length up to 7(8·5) cm. long, straight or almost so; “ant-galls” and other prickles absent. Peduncles sparingly (rarely rather densely) pubescent to subglabrous, and glandular below and sometimes also above the involucel, usually (at least) on abbreviated lateral shoots whose axes do not elongate and are represented by clustered scales, the peduncles thus appearing to be in lateral fascicles on the older often yellow-barked twigs whose leaves have fallen off; involucel conspicuous, 3-3·5 mm. long, near the base of to about half-way up the peduncle. Flowers varying from white or purplish (not in our area) to yellow or golden (see note below). Tree (6)10-25 m. high; bark on trunk lemon-coloured to greenish-yellow; young branchlets brown to plum-coloured, almost glabrous and with some sessile reddish glands; twigs showing conspicuous pale-yellow powdery bark. Pods indehiscent (3)4-13·5 x 0·7-1·4 cm., linear-oblong, straight or slightly curved, ± moniliform or irregularly constricted here and there with segments mostly longer than wide, often breaking up, pale brown or brown, reticulate-venose, eglandular or sparingly glandular. Calyx 1-1·5 mm. long. Leaves: rhachis (2·5)3-8 cm. long, glabrous to sparingly pubescent; pinnae 3-6(8) pairs (on juvenile shoots sometimes to 10 pairs) per leaf; leaflets rather numerous, 2·5-6·5 x 0·75-1·75 mm.; lateral nerves invisible beneath. Stipules spinescent, varying in length up to 7(8·5) cm. long, straight or almost so; “ant-galls” and other prickles absent. Peduncles sparingly (rarely rather densely) pubescent to subglabrous, and glandular below and sometimes also above the involucel, usually (at least) on abbreviated lateral shoots whose axes do not elongate and are represented by clustered scales, the peduncles thus appearing to be in lateral fascicles on the older often yellow-barked twigs whose leaves have fallen off; involucel conspicuous, 3-3·5 mm. long, near the base of to about half-way up the peduncle. Flowers varying from white or purplish (not in our area) to yellow or golden (see note below). Tree (6)10-25 m. high; bark on trunk lemon-coloured to greenish-yellow; young branchlets brown to plum-coloured, almost glabrous and with some sessile reddish glands; twigs showing conspicuous pale-yellow powdery bark.