ROSALS. 180 LEGUMINOUS PLANTS. 
2. A. arabica Willdenow. A. nilotica Delile. 
Spines in pairs ; branches and petioles downy; pinnz in 4-6 pairs ; leaflets — 
in 10 pairs, oblong-linear, smooth ; a gland on the petiole ; flowers in 
globose heads; pod moniliform. 
Habitat. Senegal, &c. 
Quality. As the last. 
Uses. Yields a bad red gum, unknown in commerce. Pervottet. 
3. A. vera Willdenow. Mimosa nilotica Linneus. 
Spines in pairs ; branches and leaves smooth ; pinne in 2 pairs ; leaflets 
in 8-10 pairs, oblong-linear ; a gland between the pinne; heads of 
flowers globose ; pods moniliform. 
Habitat. Senegal. 
Quality. Pods very astringent. 
Uses. Said to yield Gum Arabic, and a part of Gum Senegal. 
4, A. Adansonii Guillemin.—(Rep Gum AraBic TREE.) 
Spines in pairs ; branches and leafstalks downy; pinne 4-6 pair; leaflets 
12-16 pair, oblong-linear ; a gland between the upper and lower pinn@;_ 
heads stalked, axillary, in threes or fours ; pod torulose, 10-12-seeded. 
Habitat. Senegal. 
Quality. Pods and bark powerfully astringent. 
Uses. Yields red Gum Arabic. Perrottet. 
5. A. Catechu Willdenow.—(Catecuu TREE.) : 
Stipulary, prickly, straight when young, hooked afterwards ; pinne in 10 
pairs ; leaflets in 40-50 pairs, with a single depressed gland at the 
base of the petiole, and 2 or 3 between the upper pinne ; spikes 
cylindrical. : 
Habitat, East Indies, 
Quality. Astringent ; “ more powerful than Kino.” Pereira. 
Uses, Relaxed uvula, dyspepsia, diarrhcea, gleets, fluor albus, &c. 
Inca. Plumier. es 
Calye 5-toothed. Petals 5, united. Stamens 00. Pod linear, filled” 
with pulp or farinaceous matter. us 
1. I. Sassa Willdenow. , 
Pinne in 3-4 pairs ; leaflets in 12 pairs, oblong-ovate ; flowers in um 
late panicles ; stamens monadelphous beyond the corolla. 
Habitat. Abyssinia. 
Quality. _Pulp of fruit sweet ; a source of gum. 
Uses. Said to produce the Gum Sassa of commerce. 
Natural Order, @lmanvwarts; Drupaceee (V. K., p. 557.) 
Prevailing Quality. Production of Hydrocyanic acid. 
Amyepatus. Tournefort. e 
Drupe with coarsely-furrowed and wrinkled putamen. Young leaves 
conduplicate. 
1. A. communis Linneus,—(AtmonD Tree.) Fig. 250. 
Leaves oblong-lanceolate, serrulate ; flowers solitary; drupe downy, 1 
tough fibrous sarcocarp. 
