412. Humb. Nov. Gen. Am. v. 6. p. 435. Spreng. 
Syst. Veget. v. 3. p. 244. (non Jacq. Hort. Schoenbr.) 
Descr. A Tree about thirty feet high, with a cylin- 
drical, straight trunk, seven or eight inches in diameter, 
unbranched, in the single individual observed, to a con- 
siderable height, twelve feet or more, covered with a smooth 
and even olive-blackish bark, and furnished with a few 
scattered, distant, single, very short and small, but strong, 
thick, conical, straight spines, three-fourths of an inch long, 
each seated on a small knob. Branches spreading, but not 
peculiarly straggling, nor with the stunted habit of E. 
Crista Galli, L., few in number, distant, elongated, some- 
what siinple and straight, growing mostly horizontally, and 
forming an irregular, spreading head of fine, densely-clus- 
tered, bright green foliage ; armed with spines similar to 
those of the trunk, except those of the last year’s growth, 
which are unarmed, thick in proportion to their length, 
strong ? wrinkled upwards annularly, and marked with the 
scars of the fallen petioles; otherwise smooth, and of a dark 
olive-green. Leaves deciduous in Madeira, the tree con- 
tinuing naked from December to June, produced in tufts at” 
the ends of the branches, coming out at the same time, but 
on different branches from those which produce the flowers, 
of a dark but bright green. Stipules (at the base of the 
petiole) very small, membranous and quickly deciduous, 
densely furfuraceous, ovato-acuminate. Petioles quite un- 
armed, round, five or six inches long, covered with a dense, 
furfuraceous, pale ferruginous, or tawny coat. Petiolules 
thickened, short, articulated upon the petioles, with a pair 
of minute, ovate, acute, fleshy, dark-green stipulets (stt- 
pelle) at the joint of the terminal leaflet, and a single one 
on the outer or lower side of the joint of each lateral 
one. Leaflets three, large, covered; principally beneath 
and while young, with a copious furfuraceous, pale yellow- 
ish-brown tomentum, which on the upper surface at least 
finally wears off and nearly disappears: all very obtuse, 
Subcordate, or truncate at the base, and slightly three- 
nerved ; all the nerves pale, more furfuraceous than the 
rest, prominent beneath, quite straight, nearly simple. 
The terminal leaflet is subdeltoid or somewhat three-lobed, 
broader almost at the base than long, the three lobes 
rounded or very obtuse and shallow. ‘The lateral leaflets 
are smaller and rounded, scarcely at all deltoid or oes 
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