FAMILY HERBAL. 



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Acacia Tree. Acacia vera sive spina ./Egyptiaca, 



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HE acacia is a larg-e but not tall tree, with 

 prickly branches: the leaves are winged, or 

 composed of several small ones set on each side a 

 middle rib ; and the flowers are yellow. The 

 trunk is thick^ and the top spreading. 



The leatves are of a bluish green ; and the flowers 

 mble in shape pea blossoms; many of them 



Rtand together. These are succeeded by long 



and flatted pods. The seeds contained in each 

 are from four to seven; and the pod between 

 them is very small and narrow : the breadth is 

 where they lie. 



The tree is frequent in Egypt, and there arc 

 a great many other kinds of it. No part of the 

 acacia tree is kept in the shops; but wc have 

 from it two drugs : 



I, Theacacia juice, and2. The gum arabic. 



The jicacia juice, or succus acaciae, is like liquor- 

 rice juice, hard and black.- They bruise the un- 

 ripe pods and seeds, and press out the juice which 

 they evaporate to this consistence. The gura 

 arnbic oozes out of the bark of the trunk and 



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