﻿Plate 1803. 



ACACIA ACUIFERA, Bmth. 

 Leguminos^. Tribe Acacie.e. 



A. acuifera, Benth. in Hook. Lond. Journ. i. 496 ; Trans. Linn. Soc. 

 xxvii. 503 ; arborea, ramulis glabris aculeis ascendentibns subulatia 

 geminis pungentibus armatis, foliorum pinnis unijugis, foliolis 12-14- 

 JHgis lineari-oblongis crebris glabris, eapitulis parvis globoais axillari- 

 bus pedunculatis, legumine lineari glabro valde arcuato. 



Hab. Babamas, Swainson ; Long Cay, Brace, 449, 459 ; Fortune 

 Island, Eggers, 3289 ; Turk's Island, Hjalmarson. 



] 0-12-pedalis. Folia breviter petiolata, pinnis 1^—2 poll., 

 )liolis rigidolis 3 lin. longis. Gapitula 2 lin. diam., ad foliorum 

 dill - 1 3-na longe pedunculata. Calyx brevissimus. Corolla campa- 



nulata flava, segmentis parvis ovatis. Legum 

 3 lin. latnm, suturis leviter incrassatis. 



An endemic Bahaman species, nearly allied to the widely-spread . 

 Famesiana, Willd— J. G. Baker. 



