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Considerable variety is also observed in the character of its products. ‘The wood of most 
of the arboreous species of 4ecacia is exceeding hard, close ears ~ heavy, while that of 
Parkia biglandulosa is comparatively soft and coarse grained. That of Acacia speciosa is so 
intensely hard that it is with difficulty it can be cut with the ia hcoia: The wood of many is 
dark brown or nearly black in the centre. Many of the species yield very pure gum, from 
Acacia vera and Arabica, the finest gum arabic i a procured. The bark of pone is strongly 
astringent, some of them yielding the Catechu extract, among these may be mentioned A. fer- 
rugenea, A. catechu, and A. leucocephala. From -the bark of all of these, Sinaia with 
jaggery, an inferior kind of arrack is er 96a by distillation ; they might all be more usefully 
employed in tanning leather. The bark of one New Holland species A. melanoxylon is 
sasnceted into Fngland in Sonsidersble quantities for that purpose. Of this bark in 1831, 
there was 39.264 ewt. shipped from Hobart Town for England, and in 1835, the value 
of bark exported from the same place, was nearly £12,000, This subject therefore seems to 
merit attention in this country where so many species of the genus, having astringent bark, 
are indigenous. The bark of some of the species of Jnga is also very astringent buat do not 
seem to be known as such in this cquntry. Here the /nga dulcis or Koorkapilly (see Icon. 
Pi, Ind. Or. No. 198) is much employed as a fence, under the English name of ‘ white thorn’ 
though a very different plant. 
Remarks ON Genera AND Spacies. This branch of the subject I regret to say I must 
leave nearly untouched, as the space [ can now devote to it, is so inadequate to its extent. This 
however I less regret as a high authority ( G. Bentham, Esq, ) has declared the exposition of the 
Indian portion of the order, in our Prodromus, the most valuable work on Leguminosae that 
has appeared since the publication of DeCandolle’s Prodromus. To that therefore I refer for 
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require, properly to elucidate, them, probably little short of a whole number and weeks of Ja 
rious —— for their careful determination I must for the present leave them undeter- 
mined. compensate however so far as I am able for this deficiency, I shall make a point of 
devoting secu plates in each number of my Icones for some time, to the illustration of the 
order ; in that work a considerable number of species have been already figured, and as the 
current number (No. 13) will contain several more, I beg leave to refer to it, contenting myself 
- for the present, with subjoining the generic character of one new genus and of Edwardsia and 
Taverniera, two old genera, but only recently added to the Peninsular flora. 
EDWARDSIA, Salisbury. so far as characters taken from the foliage only can be 
ub-order SoPHOREE relied upon, without much violence to either Z. nitida, 
Calyx iptatet eos: obfiquely truncated, ob- or Z. denudata, but apie to the last owing to the 
scurely 5-toothed. Corolia papilionaceous, vixillum leaves being nearly 
somewhat shorter than iher wings, shortly unguiculate, Tavdhwicea D.C— Tribe Hedysaree. 
broadly obovate, emar, te, an ied at the base. Win 
obinae ee smn ha ules rely. anticled_at a. Calyx bi- gp at the base, 5-cleft, a 
base: keel longer ‘than the a obtuse, straight, segments linea ate, acuminate. Coro 
somewhat united below, free at the apex. Stamens’ ce Vizllum, sometrhat bora, — yermall, 
free, filamen ‘3 1 rtly alf the length of the other petals, keel obtuse, 
— ee ai _— re ac i or obliquely truncated. Stamens 10, diadelphous @ 
Stipitate, linear, with several ovules. Style slighty 
incurved, glabrous, dilated at the base, pope iin and 1) straight or inflexed. Style filiform exuose, 
the apex. Stigma thin, Legume moniliform, ware omnis | hie hb wind legum a herr eage if two 
9. 3 ce Teed You -seeded, joints, ower joint sumetimes a 
bon Meg cn serded, Belen, moor ngned stipitiform, the fertile one oval, or orbicular, aculiate, or 
convex Snffruticose 
Phiokate, rates somewhat incury 
arse ne tal, or Indian plants. 
Pe cai fe ung nated, ‘mae paired, oriental, or In: 
4 a Inflores- j PBs 1-3 foliolate—Stipules united att at the be oer 
cence Tinbedlte racemes y, lax, _ few fincered. ered. rosy coloured or white, a, afterwards scariose 
Pedicels  one-; oe cbroctilae or with a sistent. 
T. cuneifolia, (Arn.) Leaves one ona, aici; 
tial character i: this genus consists inthe | the upper ones aborting, the leaflet ee re- 
‘ters of the su my specimens peduncles, short. from the axila of pi stipules, s 
have the habit of ‘Sophora and possess the Rbararter Bering towards a apex, a I to 4 shortly pedicel- 
taken from th e legume well derlo , Lean have no late flowers. The | he inferior joint abor- — 
doubt of their Me naif belonging to this ‘ pesdin though tive, stipitiform, the nape. ne Page ven! obovate, 
not in flower he ‘spe-ies I Binet so well determine. echinate, with rigid*hooked b cunei-~ 
It may be new, ie tetas if it might be referred, in folium, Roxb. Onobryckis 
