700 FABACEAE 
Racemes with small narrow caducous bracts: branches 
and peduncles with op P OnE bristles bearing incon- 
Spicuous glands, or with bristle II. HISPIDAE. 
Racemes with large acer caudate-acuminate bracts: 
branches and peduncles densely beset with sessile or 
short-stalked conspicuous glands. III. VISCOSAE. 
SEUDO-ACACIAE 
Tree with rough bark and moms stipules 1. R. Pseudo-Acacia. 
II. Hrs 
Branches not bristly: peduncles sometimes with short hairs. 
iso of the leaflets oval E elliptic N elliptic-ovate. 
nches, peduncles, and lower lenflet-s nies ae gt 
ilone. and Son a canescent when l 
duncles not p id. 2. R. Elliottii. 
PLANE I peduncles, a lower aa eps finely 
Shrub no m. tall: ca ces not longer than 
e. 3. R. Boyntonii. 
xin less than 1 m. tall: calyx-lobes longer than 
4. R. nana. 
Blades of the leaflets lan dens n elliptic-lanceolate. 5. R. Kelseyi. 
Branches and peduncles bristly 
Branches with rather few shore glandular bristles. 6. R. longiloba. 
Bra aoe usually copiously glandular-bristly with long 
Branch: leaf-rachis, and peduncle rather densely or co- 
piously pu ubescent. 
Blades of the leaflets broadly oval, rounded at the 
ex. T. R. grandiflora. 
Blades a leafiets ovate or elliptic-ovate, acute 
Blades of the leaflets permanently villous be- 
nea 8. R. speciosa. 
Mo of the leaflets glabrate on both sides or 
ringly pubescent beneat 9. R. pallida. 
Dr teaf-rachis, and peduncle merely hispid or with 
a few ard hai 
Blodos p. the leaflets oval, elliptic-oval, or sub- 
o ar, rounded at 
Branches with bristles 1-2 mm. long: stipular 
spines usually present: pod Rue 10. R. pedunculata. 
Branches with bristles 3-5 m long: stipular 
spines usually Ens. odit glandular. 11. R. hispida. 
Blades of the leaflets lanceolate or ovate, acute. 12. R. fertilis. 
peduncles ee subsessile glands, not densely puber BIGHE 13. R. viscosa. 
peduncles with stal ked glands and also densely puberulent. 14. R. Hartwigii. 
1. R. Pseudo-Acacia L. Tree becoming 30 m. tall, with furrowed bark: 
stipular-spines ER e, n stout: — 9-19 ; blades elliptic, oval, or 
ubescent 
—BSpr.—The wood. 
hard and very durable in a with the 
soil—Although naturally a moist cli- 
mate, this is used as a shade tree in dion regions. 
