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A tree, up to 15 ft. high. Branches greyish, at first minutely 
subtomentose, becoming glabrous, armed with scattered hooked 
prickles 3-1} lin. long, no stipular prickles. Leaves bipinnate, 
2-34 in. long, puberulous on the primary and secondary rachides 
and armed with small hooked prickles along the underside of the 
in a terminal leafless inflorescence or sometimes axillary from the 
leaves, 1-3 at each node, 1f-2} in. long (including the 4+ in. long 
minutely tomentose peduncle), densely. many-Howered. Flowers 
creamy-white, Calyx not half as long as the corolla, 4 lin, long, 
campanulate, with short broadly deltoid teeth, glabrous. Corolla 
tubular-campanulate, glabrous ; tube i-§ lin. long, lobes 2-} lin. 
densely villose-tomentose, 4-ovuled, seated on a glabrous stipe lin. 
4 in. long, 4-4 in. 
broad, linear-oblong, flat, thin, acute at each end, 3-—4-seeded, 
reddish-brown, glabrous or nearly so, with only here and there a 
trace of the hairs which densely clothe the ovary, tapering at the 
long. 
This species is very similar to A. caffra, Willd., but is easily 
distinguished by the prickles on the leaves, the very much smaller 
calyx (which is open from a very early stage, not closed over the 
corolla as in A, caffra), and by the very hairy ovary and the 
shorter, fewer-seeded pods. 
Acacia glandulifera, Schinz. : 
Kwebe Hills, 3,000 ft., Mrs, Lugard, 14, 16. 
A bush, up to 6 feet high, This very distinct species is easily 
recognised by the absence of an involucel on the peduncles and the 
sessile glands scattered on the petioles of the leaves and densely 
covering the flat faleate pods, 
Acacia kwebensis, N. E. Br. Arbor 6 m. alta, Stipulae spines- 
centes, parvae, uncinatae, brunneae, Folia hysterantha, bipinnata ; 
pinnae 3-5-jugae ; foliola 8-13 juga, oblique lineari-oblonga, 
subacuta, gla a, pallida ; petiolus ét thachis pubescentes. Flores 
Spicati, albi. Peduneuli et calyces tomentosi, Legumen rectum, 
lineari-oblongum, acutum, 
spicate, white. Spikes somewhat clustered at the nodes, the short 
primary peduncle um bellately dividing into 2-3 secondary peduncles 
about ? in. long, tomentose; the flowering: part 1-2 in. long, 6-7 lin. 
