314 CALYCIFLORJE. 



HAB. Salinas. 



FL. ? 



The stamens 10. Ovary hirsute. 



* * Leaves bipinnate, pinnce multijugate, flowers 



spiked. 



3. * Acacia lophanthoides. Mountain Acacia, 



Unarmed, pinnag 6-jugate leaflets l6-jugate ovali- 

 oblong obtuse, petioles eglandulose pubescent as also 

 tlie^ branches, racemes subgeminate axillary short, 

 calyx very glabrous. 



Bertero, De Cand. Prod. II. 457. 

 HAB. andFL. ? 



4. Acacia Catechu. Medicinal Acacia. 



Spines stipulary, when young straight, afterwards 

 hooked, pinnas 10-17-paired, leaflets 50-60 linear 

 ciliated, a depressed glandule at the base of the pe- 

 tiole, and one between the extreme % 3, or 4 pairs 

 of pinnae, spikes cylindrical 1-3-axillary. 



Mimosa Catechu, Rox. Cor. II. 175. — A. Catechu, Willd. 

 Spec. IV. 1079 De Cand. Prod. II. 458. 



HAB. Common. Liguanea. St Thomas in the East. 



FL. June. 



A tree, 15-20 feet in height : branches spreading, armed 

 with strong black stipulary spines, puberulous towards their 

 extremities. Leaves bipinnate: pinnae 10-17-paired: leaflets 

 50-60-paired, shortly petiolulated, linear, bluntish, unequal 

 and auriculated on the lower side at the base, ciliated : petiole 

 angular, channelled above, puberulous, bearing an orbiculate 

 urceolate green glandule below the lowest pair, and similar but 

 much smaller ones between each of the two, three, or four ter- 

 minal pairs of pinnae. Spines stipulary, strong, black, sharp. 

 Spikes axillary, 1-2 together, cylindrical, at first much shorter 

 than the leaf, but afterwards elongating : peduncles puberulous. 

 Flowers numerous, white, sessile. Calyx externally puberu- 

 lous, 5-fid ; teeth erect. Corolla rather longer than the calyx, 

 5-fid, glabrous ; divisions ovate, acuminate, obtuse. Stamens 

 twice the length of the corolla, very numerous, delicately capil- 

 lary, distinct from the base. Ovary green, glabrous, shortly 

 stipitate : style capillary length of the stamens. Legumes 

 linear, attenuated at the base, acuminate at the apex, plane, 

 glabi'ous, about 6-seeded or fewer by abortion : seeds orbicu- 

 late, flattened. 



