a LEGUMINOSZ (Harv.) . — [Acaeia. 
Prickles scattered ; twigs and petioles tomentose ; leafl. 
silky beneath a pas Se .+ + (15) eriadenia. 
Flowers capitate. Prickles scattered. Stem fruticose, climbing. " 
Pinne 3-5-jugate ; leafl. 6-12-jugate, oblong ... (16) Kraussiana. 
Pinnz 8—20-jugate ; leafl. 30-35-jugate, narrow-linear (17) pennata, 
1. A. erioloba (E. Mey. Comm. p. 171); stipular-spines straight; 
leaves glabrous, pallid ; pinne trijugate, with glands at each pair ; leaf-_ 
lets 8-10-jugate, linear-oblong, obtuse ; legume woody, indehiscent, 
semilunate, tumid, tapering at each end, with a whitish, rough tomen- 
tum, spongy within. Benth. in Lond. Journ. 1, p. 496. 
Has. Namaqualand, Schmeling. (Probably A. Giraffe). ‘‘ Kameeldoorn” of the 
colonists. 
2. A. Giraffe (Burch. Trav. 2, p. 240, plate 6); quite glabrous; sti- 
pular-spines straight, strong, brown; pinne 1-3-jugate, with shield-like 
glands at most pairs; leaflets 8-15-jugate, oblong, linear, obtuse, thick- 
ish ; peduncles crowded on abortive ramuli; legume oval, thick, inde- 
hiscent, spongy within. Benth. Lond. Journ. 1,p.496. A. erioloba? E. Mey. 
Has. Dry and sandy deserts to the north of the colony, Burchell. 
A tree, called Kameeldoorn, because the cameleopard browses chiefly on it, but 
known to the Bichuana natives as the Mokdala. It is much larger than the common 
karroo-thorn (A. horrida), with a thick and spreading umbrella-shaped head, and 
thick, brown thorns. The wood is excessively hard and heavy, of a dark, red-brown 
colour, and used by the Bichuanas for spoons and knife-handles, &c. Burchell, 1. ¢. 
3. A. heteracantha (Burch. in DC. Prod. 2, 473); branches and 
petioles pubescent ; stipular-spines either short and hooked back or 
very long and straight, all pubescent; pinne 5—10-jugate, with few, 
small, jugal glands ; leaflets 10-15-jugate, oblong-linear, downy or gla- 
brate ; legume linear. Benth. Lond. Journ. 1, p. 497. 
Has. Near the Gariep, Burchell, No. 1710., Trav. 1, p. 389. 
A tree upwards of 20 feet high, with a tall trunk of 18 inches diameter, support- 
ing a flat, wide-spreading, umbrella-like head. Burchell, lc. ~ 
4 A. hematoxylon (Willd. Enum. 1056); branches and leaflets 
hinly cano-tomentose ; stipular-spines mostly long, straight, subulate ; 
pinne 8-19-jugate, with few, small jugal glands ; leaflets very small, 18- 
24-jugate, closely imbricate, canescent ; legume linear, falcate, thick, 
tomentose, spongy within, with distant seeds. Benth. Lond. Journ. 1, 
497, A. atomiphylla, Burch. Trav. 1, 341. 
_ Has. Kloof Valley, interior of the Cape. Burchell, 1685. ; 
A shrub 8-16 feet high, with soft, pale green foliage. Spines very slender, straight, 
spreading, Leaves looking to the eye as if simply pectinato-pinnate, 8-19-jugate ; 
but really bipinnate, the pinnz 18-24-jugate. Leaflets very minute, lying very close 
together, as if cohering. Heads globose, on long peduncles. Burchell. 
§. A hebeclada (DC. Prod. 2, 461); twigs, petioles, and peduncles 
ree tomento-hispid ; Se eet pate subulate-conic, short, recurved, 
tomentose ; pinne 3—7-Jugate, with small, jugal glands ; leaflets 12-15- 
jugate, pubescent, becoming glabrate, linear ; secinisles bracteate icv 
the base or in the middle ; legume oblong, obtuse, very thick, coriaceous, 
yellowish, tomentose and obliquely striate, at first pulpy within, then 
hollow. Benth. Lond. Journ. 1. p, 499 and 5, p, 95. Zey.! 569. 
