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The. Natural: Hiftory of JAM ATGA, 
XXAVE |» Acacia Awvericans;: filiquis teretibus ventriofis, floribas bates. 
Herm. Gat:'p.i 52! Acacia Indica Tradefe. p. 74. Acacia Americana Parnep- 
and, Grif'virid. pt. Acacia Indica flore Luteo, Caftell. hort Meff. p/ 1. Agod- 
ova prima. Lycium alterdm Vimen pexnatum, rubt facie fractitojum flore glo. 
bofo luteo odorato:Surian. iB (Ou iF 
2 BTR WOU Acatia. °° 
There-are feveral Trees: of this in feveral Plantations,’ particularly 
Col. Cope’s in Gaanaboa juft by his Houfe; and in St. Chriffopher’s jult by 
Colonel Hrl’s, Tobferved a large Hedge ofthe fame. a 
Columna fays tt ftinks, and “is not’ for that’ Reafon'‘to ‘be uféd in 
Andramachas’s Treacle. se PD Uke 20MM £94 2 
Diofcrides defcribes Acacia Agyptiaca with a white-Flower! | iui 
“Teofesiits Leaves 'in Italy every Winter, ‘yields a filice oF any Con- 
fus’d Taftes, has Flowers of feveral Colours at feveral ‘Times, an@ Wt. 
pinus defcribes it to have the Pod.of 2 Lupin: 
The Arabs feed their Goats with the Leaves beat down-with a°Peatch, 
the Juice of the unripe Pod is at Caéro ufed for tanning Leather. © 
a 
AXXIV. Acacia arborea major {pinofa, pina’ quatuor, mxjoribus fubrobun- 
dis, (pliquis varte tntortis. Cat. Fam, p.152.Vol. 2. pet ¥3.. dn Ceratie quod- 
anmodo atinis Benghalenfis folijs bigemellis fubrotundis filiquis admodumeintor= 
tis & in orbes circumflexis, ex minto nigricantibus frudtu rubro macula nigra 
infignito. Pluk, Phyt.tab. 82. Figs'a? An Acacia Americana Solijs ampliori- 
bus filiquis cincinnatis. Plum. Tournef. Inft. p» 605? An Tobocora Arbor Spi- 
nofa venenata maritima folio gemino rotundo corniculis veflésis: coaciners, pife 
sagatina includens. Surian?® © OTE OO Ba ats yor ab 
This Tree has an undivided ‘Trunc the Bignefs of oes‘ Thigh, fot about 
a Yard or two high, where it branches out into Boughs, equally fpread 
round about into a Bufhy Head (if it be not hinder’d ‘by other 'rees) the 
‘Tranc and Boughs are cover’d with a grey or whitifh, almoft: fmooth 
Bark, brown within, the Twigs have little Swellings or Knobs, and fome 
fhort thick Prickles, the Leaves or Pinne are 4, two always ftanding on 
the fame Footftalk and two:of thefe Footftalks being join’d to the End, 
ef a common Ench long Footftalk or middle Rib, fo that the Leaves are 
ever four, and :the Leaf in a manner decompofite ; cach of thefe. Pinne 
or Leaves is one Inch long and three quarters broad neat ‘the End where 
broadeft, fmooth, thin, nervous and of a very dark green Colour, refer 
bling in many things the Leaves of Box, the Flowers come’ out ex alis 
Eoliorum ttanding on two Inches long Footftalks, from which they ftand 
round on every Hand as from a common Centre, and confilt of nothing 
but half Inch long white Filaments in a green Capfula; to which fuc- 
ceed feveral two Inches long Pods, crooked at firft, but when open’d 
they turn and twift by the Sun, among one another, looking very odly, 
and turning from a white to a brown Colour: The Peas are black irregularly 
figui’d, angular and coming near a Trapezium in Shape, being flat and 
having a white fungous Porous Matter, by which with the Help of 'a very 
fine Hair, ’tis faften’dto the Pod, and afterwards turns.as the Infide of 
the Pod, from being moilt and white, ta'be dry and brown, 
{t grows in the Savanna’s every where about the Town of St. Fago 
de la Vega and in Barbados, in the Low Lands. 
The Peas are eaten by Goats in Scarcity of other Food, and in Bar- 
bados by the Negro’s, as I was affured by fome of the Inhabitants there. 
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