Acacia LEGUMINOS/E 141 



Wullschlaegel. Hispaiiiola, Porto Hico, St. Thomas, St. Cru/, St. Martin, 

 St. Bartholomew, Antigua, Guadeloupe, Martinique, St. Vincent, Grenada, 

 Trinidad, Mexico, tropical S. America. 



Shrub 6 to 25 ft., or tree to 50 ft. Pinnx in G-12 pairs, 3-7 cm. 1. ; 

 leaflets in 15-40 pairs, oblong-linear, 5-9 mm. 1. Flower-heads in wide- 

 spreading panicles. Flowers white. Calyx minute, just over 1 mm. 1. 

 Corolla 2-2-2-5 mm. 1. Pod 8-15 cm. 1., 1-5-2-5 cm. br. 



[A. rugata Itnch.-Ham. MS. in \\'ll. Cat. n. 5251 (nomen) : 

 trailing shrub, climbing to a height of 20 to 30 ft. ; prickles 

 numerous, scattered ; flowers in globular heads ; pod thick, 

 fleshy, generally constricted between, the seeds and breaking at 

 the joints, the valves only splitting open after some tiii'c. 

 A. concinna DC. Prodr. it. 464 (1825); 7>V/////. in Trans. Linn 

 Soc. xxx. 531. Mimosa rugata Lam. Encyc. i. 20 (1783). 

 M. concinna Willd. tip. PL iv. 1039 (1805). 



Naturalized; Gordon Town, 900 ft., J.P. 1133, Hart I also Harris I 

 PI. Jam. 8253. Native of India and the Malay Archipelago. 



Pinnx in 4-8 pairs, 5-8 cm. 1. ; leaflets, 12-30 pairs, oblong or linear, 

 unequal-sided, very oblique at the base, obtuse, 7-14 mm. 1. Peduncles 

 clustered 2-5 together, forming, on the fall of the leaves, a subpaniculate 

 raceme. Calyx 3 mm. 1. Corolla 4 mm. 1. Pod to 13 cm. 1., 1-5-2 cm. br.] 



3. Shrubs, without spines or prickles, erect, usually hairy. 

 Flowers in short spikes or oblong heads, 2 or 3 together 

 in the upper axils, becoming paniculate at the ends of 

 branches. Flowers stalked. Pod flat, valves thin, with 

 rib-like margins. 



4. A. villosa Willd. Sp. PI. 1007 (1806); Macf. Jam. i. 319 : 

 Griseb. Fl. Br. W. Ind. 221 ; l><-,tth. in Trans. Linn. S<>,-. xxx. 

 532. A. non spinosa latiore folio villosa <tc. Houstoun MSS. 23. 

 A. lopbanthoides DC. Prodr. //. 457 (1825); Macf. Jam. i. 31 1. 

 Mimosa villosa Sw. FL Ind. Occ. 982 (1800). The specimen 

 named M. arborea in Herb. Linn, belongs to this specie-. Type 

 (Houstoun's specimen) in Herb. Mus. Brit. 



Houstoun I Wright I Browne ! Liguanea hills, Broughtonl common, 

 low hills on the south side, Macfadyen ! Negro River, 1'urdl' ! Morant 

 Bay, Ocrstedl Wilson; Priori March \ King's House grounds, -I.I'. l:)H 

 1350, Fawcett\ J-'.illy Dunn Pen, Liguanea, 500 ft., C^nqibdll II 

 grounds, 700 ft., I turns ! Central America. 



Shrubby tree, t 12 ft. high, villose or rarely glabrous. Pinnx in 5 or G 

 (4-10) pairs, 3-6 cm. 1. ; leaflets in 10-16(-30) pairs, elliptical-oblong, 

 unequal-sided, apex obtuse or somewhat acute, baso rounded. I s mm. 1. ; 

 petiole without a gland; stipules lanceolate, deciduous. Cali/x minute, 

 7 mm. 1. Corolla 2-2 2-5 mm. 1. Pod :3'5-4'5 cm. 1., S-10 mm. br. 



A. latisiliqua Willd. Sp. PI. iv. 1007 (1806) is stated by Macfaclyt-n 

 (Jam. i. 318) to bo " commonly cultivated in towns." .-Km (Symb. Ant. ii. 

 265) suggests that it is identical with Lt/ilu)n<i />nii(i)ni-nxis Beuth., a 

 species found in Florida Keys, Bahamas, Cuba, and Yucatan. 



