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MIMOSA NILOTICA. EGYPTIAN MIMOSA, ' 



ACACIA, EGYPTIAN THORN. 



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Giimmi Arablcum, Fharm, Lond. &" Edinb, fponle ex hac 



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STNONTMJ, Acacia vera. J, Baiih. Hi/I, vol. up. 429. Acacia 

 • foliis fcorpioides leguminofas. Bauh. Pin. 2Q2. Acanthus Theo- 

 phrafti. Raii Hiji. p. gy6. Acacia vera five fpina iflgyptiaca. 

 FarL Theat.p. 1547. Acacia veraf. Spina iEgyptiaca; fubrotundis 

 foliis flore luteo ; filiqua paucioribus ifthmis glabris nigricantibus. 

 F Ink. Aim. 3. t. 10.2,./. I- Acacia ^gyptiaca filiquis Lupini 

 floribus luteis. Herm. Farad. Bat. F rod. 303. ConL Haffelq. it 



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475. AKx>iix*DioJcorid. L. t. cap. 133 



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Clafs Polygamia. Ord. Monoecia. Lin. Gen. Flant. 11 



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EJf.Gen.Ch. Hermaph. C^z/. 5-dentatus. Cor. 5-fxda. Stam 



5. f. plura. Fiji. I. Legumen. 



Masc. (7^//. 5-dentatus. Cc^r. 5-fida. 6'/^/;2. 5, 10, plura, ^ 



. C;^. M. fpinis ftipularibus patentibus, foliis bipinnatis : partia- 



libus extimis glandula interftindis, fpicis globofis pedunculatis. 



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THIS, like the preceding fpecies of Mimofa, rifes feveral feet in 

 height : it is covered with fmooth bark of a grey colour, and that of 

 the branches has commonly a purpliih tinge : the leaves are bipin- 

 nated, and placed alternately: the partial pinnx are oppofite, furniihed 

 with a fmall gland between the outermoft pair, and befet with nu- 

 merous pairs of narrow elliptical pinnulse, or leafits : the fpines are 

 long white, fpreading, and proceed from each fide of the bafe of 

 the leaves: the flowers are hermaphrodite and male, they aifume a 

 globular ihape, and ftaiid four or five together upon flender peduncles, 

 which arife from the axilla of the leaves : the calyx is fmall, bell- 

 ihaped, and divided at the mouth into five minute teeth : the corolla 



conhlts of five narrow ydlowifh fegm.eats; the filaments are 



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