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short. Heads of flowers axillary, pedimcled, usually tliree to- 

 gether, small, not half the size of tliose of A. toiitijosa. Pe- 

 duncles about an inch in length. Calyx minute, thin, mem- 

 branaceous, 4-5-dentate. Petals 4-5, united into a 4-5-cleft 

 corolla ; divisions somewhat longer than the calyx. Stamens 

 numerous, yellow about -i longer than the corolla : ovary com- 

 pressed, minutely puberulous : style length of the stamens, 

 rather thick : stigma obtuse. Legume 3-4 inches in length, 

 spongy, roundish, compressed, incano-villous. 



8. * Acacia macracanthoides. Lnrge-Jiowered 



Acacia. 



Spines in pairs terete, branches, petioles, and pc- 

 dinicles pubescent, pinna? 12-14-jugate, leafiets '25- 

 jugate oblongo-linear glabrous, a glandule beneath 

 the lowest, and between the terminal pairs of pinnae, 

 heads in pairs axillary on long peduncles. 



Bertero, De Cand. Prod. II. 463. 



HAB. ? 



FL. ? 



9. Acacia subinermis. Short-spined Acacia, 



Spines in pairs subulate short, branchlets, petioles, 

 and peduncles pubescent, pinnae 20-40-paired, leaf- 

 lets 20-40-paired linear oblong glabrous, a glandule 

 beneath the lowest, and one between the 2-5 termi- 

 nal pairs of pinnae, heads of flowers 2-3 together pe- 

 duncled axillary. 



Bertero, De Cand. Prod. II. 463. 



HAB. Salt Ponds district, St Catherine's. 



FL. March. 



A tree, attaining 20-30 feet in height : branches spreading, 

 terete, papillose, villous towards their extremities. Spines in 

 the younger plants distinct ; in the old, small, stipulary, subu- 

 late, about 2 lines in length. Leaflets very small, glabrous, 

 about 2 lines in length : common petiole villous, bearing a sub- 

 globose depressed glandule beneath the lowest pair of pinnae, 

 and one between each of tlie 2-5 terminal pairs. Peduncles 

 short, usually 2 together. Flowers numerous, small, crowded 

 into a head, yellow. Calyx obscurely 5-toothed. Corolla 

 somewhat longer, 5-fid. Stamens oo, longer than the corolla. 

 Legume linear, roundish, compressed, torulose, villous, ash- 

 coloured, 12-seeded : seeds roiuidish, compressed, of a chesnut 

 colour. 



