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be the result of the cutting down of the main stem of trunk- 
forming specimens of one and the same species. 
85. Acacia swazica, Burtt Davy, sp. nov.; affinis A. per- 
mixtae, Burtt Davy, sed ramulis tenuioribus sparse glandulosis 
nec hirsutis, petiolis longioribus, pinnis foliolisque paucioribus, 
foliolis majoribus remotioribus, venis venulisque prominentibus, 
rhachide et pedunculo sparse glanduloso, nec hirsuto differt; 
a Acacia glandulifera, Schinz, foliolis multioribus et majoribus 
pedunculis longioribus mucronatis, et pedunculo — bracteato 
differt. . 
Soutn Arrica. Swaziland: near Bremersdorp, 66m. alt., 
Jan. 5, 1905, a common bush, Burtt Davy 3045! (type) in National 
Herb., Pretoria. Transvaal: Barberton Distr.; Singerton near 
Hectorspruit, 400 m. alt., Aug. 18, 1908, Burtt Davy 8002! 
Barberton, Pott 5305! Komatipoort, Schlechter 11868! Consort 
Valley, Galpin 631! 
Dwarf bush with slender glabrous sparsely glandular brown 
branchlets. Spines situate at the base of the leaves, 0-4-4 cm. 
tips, glabrous. Leaves 2-5-4-5 em. long, arising from abortive 
branchlets forming axillary cushions; cushions clothed with 
light-brown, persistent, spinulose stipules about 1 mm. long; 
petiole 1-1-5 cm. long sparsely glandular; rhachis and rhachilla 
glabrous, winged; pinnae 1-2 pairs; leaflets 4-6 pairs, about 
4 mm. apart, 3-11 mm. long, 2-5—-4-5 mm, broad, mucronulate, 
glabrous, drying brownish; veins and veinlets prominent or not 
conspicuous. Flowers capitate. Peduncle of fruit 3-3-5 cm. 
long sparsely glandular; involucel about 1-5 cm. from the base, 
about 2 mm. long, cupular, toothed rather than lobed, glabrous, 
sometimes glandular ciliolate. Legume 2-5-4 cm. long, 1 cm. 
whaet slightly faleate and beaked ; valves subcoriaceous, some- 
t dull, prominently reticulate throughout, sparsely glandular 
with dark. raised glands. Seeds nearly circular, 5-6 mm 
diameter, including a margin 1-1-5 mm. wide. 
as been referred to A. horrida forma, from which it is at once 
distinguishable by the glandular petiole and rhachis, the smaller 
leaves, and the axillary peduncles which are either solitary or 
in pairs, not in terminal racemes. 
86. Acacia Woodii, Burtt Davy, sp. nov.; arbor magna, 
affinis A. rehmannianae, Schinz, sed legriminibti 14-15 cm. 
longis 1-7—2-5 em. latis ligneis juvenis griseo-viridis maturatis 
fulvobrunneis nec reticulatis, differt 
SoutH Arrica. Natal: batieseil Estcourt and Colenso, 
J. Medley Wood 3528! (type); near Ladysmith, Burtt Davy in 
Trans. Dep. Agric. Herb. 4821! Cato Ridge, Burtt Davy 10437? 
without precise locality, Gerrard 1700! Transvaal: Barberton 
Distr.; White River Settlement, Burtt Davy 1502? (neither 
Beivees nor oan bark rugose, yellowish, corky, flaking off in 
rregular pieces). 
