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Legume 3-33 inches long, 3-4 lines wide, 6-8-seeded, often irregularly sinuous at the 
margin. A. multijuga, Meisn. in Hook. Lond. Journ. 2, p. 105, seems from the de- 
description to be referable to this, 
15. A. eriadenia (Benth.! Lond. Journ. 5, p. 98); prickles scattered, 
small, straight or recurved, few; twigs, petioles, and peduncles tomen- 
tose ; stipules membranous, semicordate, acuminate, villous, deciduous ; 
pinnz 6-10-jugate, the one or two petiolar, and the few jugal glands 
conical-tubercular, villous ; leaflets about 20-jugate, obliquely linear, 
appressedly silky beneath ; spikes elongate, loose, the uppermost in a 
raceme ; flowers subsessile, glabrous; calyx half as long as the corolla. 
Zey.! 568. 
Has. Crocodile River, Magaliesberg, Burke § Zeyher! (Herb. Hk., D., Sd.) 
Twigs pale ash-coloured. Stipules 6—7 lines long, 2 lines wide. Leaflets 23-3 
lines long, 4 line wide, pale, sometimes silky at the edges only. Petiolar gland very 
prominent, Legumes unknown. 
Acacia. | LEGUMINOS (Harv.) 
16. A. Kraussiana (Meisn.! Lond. Journ. 2, p. 103); scandent ; prickles 
scattered, very small, numerous ; twigs, petioles, and peduncles minutely 
downy or glabrate ; petioles armed; pinne 3-5-jugate, with convex 
glands; leaflets 6-12-pair, obliquely oblong, obtuse, mucronulate, gla- 
brous, shining above ; heads globose, the peduncles racemoso-paniculate ; 
ovary stipitate, pubescent ; legume broadly-linear, membranous, fiat, 
glabrous, straight, several-seeded, stipitate. Bth.! l. c. p. 505. 
Has. Port Natal, 7. Williamson! Krauss! Gueinzius! (Herb. Hk., D.) 
A slender shrub, with flexuous or twining branches. Petioles mostly aculeate. 
Leaflets 4-5 lines long, 2 lines wide, paler beneath. Inflorescence disposed in ter- 
minal panicles. Legumes 3-4 inches long, the margin slightly sinuous. Prickles 
much smaller and leaflets larger than in A. pennata. ; 2 
17. A. pennata (Willd. Sp. 4, 1090) ; scandent; prickles numerous 
on the twigs and Sera short, recurved ; twigs and petioles thinly 
tomentose, at length glabrate ; pinne 8-20-jugate, with petiolar and 
sometimes jugal glands; leaflets more than 3o-jugate, narrow-linear, 
glabrous or ciliate ; heads globose, panicled ; calyx nearly equalling the 
corolla ; ovary stipitate, villous ; legume glabrous or minutely puberu- 
lous, membranous, flat. Benth.! Lond. Journ. 1, p. 516. E. Mey.! Comm. 
p. 169. DC. Prod. 2. 464. Burm. Zeyl. t. i. 
Has. Steep mountain rocks near the Mission Station, Omgaziana, Drege/ Natal, 
Gueinzius/ (Herb. D.) oe : 
A slender, half climbing shrub, with large, ig ates fernlike leaves. Leaves 
5-6 inches long; pinnz 2-3 inches ; leaflets 2}-3 lines long, 4 line wide. 
ae Imperfectly known Species. 
A. spinosa (E. Mey.! Comm. p. 170); branches and twigs spiny, 
rigid, | peat eas from the side of the spines, 3-5, tufted, bipin- 
nate, 4-5-jugate ; stipitate glands between the first and last or between 
every pair ; leaflets 18-24-jugate, subfalcate-linear, glabrous, shining, 
acute-angled at the base behind, acute at the anterior margin at the 
point ; stipules membranous, falcato-subulate, soft ; flowers and fruit 
unknown. EL. Mey. lc. 
Has. Port Natal, Drege. | 
A. Litakunensis (Burch. Trav. 2, 2452) ; a tree, 40 feet high, called 
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