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lets bifid, minute, at ihe base of the partial petioles: pinnas sixteen 

 or eighteen-paired, halved, subsessile, acute, entire, smooth: the 

 spikes peduncled, subglobular, composed of aggregate, sessile, white 

 flowers: the peduncles axillary, and slender: the seeds spherical, 

 shining black. It is a native of Jamaica, where it is called Mountain 

 or Wild Tamarind Tree. 



The eighteenth has the leaves destitute of glands: the pinnas 

 from twelve to twenty, an inch in length: the bundles of flowers 

 peduncled: the legume a span long. It is cultivated in the gardens 

 at Cairo, where it flowers in June, and becomes a large tree. It is 

 probably a native of Egypt. 



The nineteenth has the bracteas half-cordate: the peduncles in 

 threes : the flowers in heads : an obsolete gland on the common pe- 

 tiole below the partial pinnas: the germs are globular, two-valved; 

 with two roundish, concave or hemispherical leaflets: the leaves very 

 smooth. It is a native of .the West Indies, flowering most part of 

 the summer. 



The twentieth species has the branches with few recurved prickles: 

 the leaves four or five-paired: a gland between the lowest partial 

 ones, which are twelve-paired, but the lowest pinnule wants the op- 

 posite on the inside: on the common petiole are two remote prickles, 

 underneath between each partial one: the stipules wide, acuminate, 

 purple: the legumes very wide. It is a native of America. 



In the twenty -first, the leaves divide into many ramifications: 

 the leaflets are roundish, and placed in very regular order: the seeds, 

 which are flat, and one half of a beautiful red colour, the other half 

 of a deep black, grow in long twisted pods, and hanging by a small 

 thread for some time out of the pod, when they are ripe, make a 

 very agreeable appearance. It was brought from the Bahama 

 Islands. 



The twenty-second species is frutescent, being a large procum- 

 bent branching shrub: the panicle very much branched, naked, 

 terminating the stem and branches: the prickles small, scattered 

 over the stem and panicle: the leaves having from twelve to twenty 

 pairs of partial leaves, with an oblong melliferous pore at the base 



