‘ROSALS, 179 LEGUMINOUS PLANTS, 
C. coriaria Willdenow.—(Divinivi TREE.) ited ; 
narmed, smooth ; leaves bipinnate, with 5-7 pairs of pinne ; leaflets in 
15-20 pairs, linear, blunt ; racemes panicled. 
fabitat. Tropical America. 
gd Pods gathered before ripeness excessively astringent. 
Uses, By tanners and dyers. 
Hamatoxyton. Linneus. 
Calyx tubular, with 5 deciduous segments. Petals 5, scarcely longer than 
the calyx. Stamens 10, hairy ; anthers glandular. Pod compressed, 
flat, acuminate at each end, indehiscent, 2-seeded, breaking across in 
the middle. 
LE. campeachianum Linnszeus.—(Loewoop TREE.) aos 
Leaves pinnate, or imperfectly bipinnate ; leaflets obcordate ; flower-buds 
red; flowers yellow. 
Habitat. Campeachy. 
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Quality, Bark a mild astringent. 
Uses, “Old diarrhoeas, dysenteries, hemorrhages, leucorrheea. A dye. 
* * * Mimosgous GENERA. 
Acacia, Linneeus. 
Calyx 4-5-toothed. Petals 4-5. Stamens 00. Pod continuous, juiceless, 3 
-2-valved. . . 
l. A. Verek Guillemin.—(Gum Arasic Tree.) Fig. op d+: pinne in 
Branches smooth ; spines recurved, in threes ; petiole unarmed ; Pp fevers 
pairs ; leaflets in 10-15 pairs, linear, obtuse, eer: 
spiked ; pod oblong, thin. 
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» Bark astringent, tonic. 
Yields true white Gum Arabic. Perrottet. 
eaten 
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Fig, 249.—Acacia Verek. 
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