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14. Acacia tricliophylloides. Delicately-leaved 



Acacia. 



Unarmed, pinnae 12-paired, leaflets 35-40-paired 

 dimidiato-oblongo-linear acute ciliated, a glandule 

 beneath the lowest and the terminal pair of pinna?, 

 peduncles 4 together axillary. 



Mimosa aiig-ustifolia, Lam. Diet. I. 12? — Acacia angustiloba, 

 De Cand. Prod. II. 470. 



HAB. Common, Port-Royal mountains. 



FL. May, June. 



A tree, varying from ] to 40 £eet in height : brandies 

 spreading, towards their extremities angulose, of a rufous purple 

 colour, velutino-pubesceut. Leaves bipinnate, about 6 inches 

 in length: pinnse usually 12-paired, about 2 inches in length: 

 leaflets about 35-paired, very small, scarcely one-fourth of an 

 inch in length, subsessile, linear, subfalcate, dimidiato-oblong, 

 unequilateral and subcordate on one side at tlie base, acute, 

 ciliated : common petiole tetragonal witli the lowest side the 

 broadest, puberulous, bearing a rather large orbiculate depres- 

 sed glandule beneath the lowest and another beneath the terminal 

 pair of pinnse : partial petioles (of the pinnse) subtetragonal, 

 puberulous. Stipules scarcely any. Peduncles axillary, 4 to- 

 gether, divaricating, about an inch in length, sub-3-gonal, pu- 

 berulous, coloured on two of the sides, and obscurely sulcated 

 on the other, each bearing a dense head of about 50 sessile 

 white flowers. Calyx 3-toothed. Petals 5, much longer than 

 the calyx, oblong, subacute, externally puberulous. Stamens 

 10, more than twice the length of the petals: filaments white, 

 erecto-patent , anthers oblong, pale yellow. Ovary oblong, 

 compressed, albido-villous with appressed hairs : style soinewhat 

 longer and thicker than the stamens : stigma obtuse. Legume 

 3-4 inches in length, linear, with the margin (from some of the 

 seeds being abortive) subsinuated, shortly stipitate, uncinato- 

 apiculated with a persistent portion of the style, membranace- 

 ous, glabrous, 9-14-seeded. 



This tree is commonly called the Bastard Tamarind. Its 

 stem never attains any great size, so as to render it deserving 

 of the name of a timber-tree. 



15. Acacia arborea. TVild Tamarind. 



Unarmed, the very young branchlets and petioles 

 ferrugineo-velutine, pinnae 12-l6-jugate, leaflets 20- 

 30-jugate oblongo-dimidiate glabrous, a depressed 

 glandule between each pair of pinnae, capitules of 

 flowers 'i-3 axillary peduncled. 



