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of the general petiole: the leaflets linear and almost capillary: there 

 are no prickles on the petioles or peduncles, but a gland above the 

 base of the petioles: the flowers white, polygamous, in a vast diffused 

 terminating panicle, of very many small globular heads. It is a 

 native of the East Indies. 



The bark is there converted into a sort of tow, which is used for 

 stopping cracks both in houses and boats. 



The twenty-third sort has the flowers many-stamened, sessile : 

 the leaves are like those of the Walnut; and the flowers are purple. 

 It is a native of South America. 



The twenty-fourth has also purple flowers, and is a native of 

 South America. 



The twenty-fifth is a tree with rigid branches, that are flexuose 

 from bud to bud: under each bud is a pair of horizontal, whitish, 

 stipular thorns^ the length of the leaves: the leaves are petioled? 

 conjugate, or one-paired, with pinnate, six-paired leaflets: the com- 

 mon petiole terminated above by a gland, beneath by a prickle: the 

 leaflets oblong-linear, blunt, at equal distances, the lowest smaller: 

 the legume oval, a hand in length and half as much in breadth, com- 

 pressed, with large scattered seeds. It is a native of the Cape. 



The twenty-sixth climbs to the tops of the tallest trees, to the 

 height of one hundred and fifty feet, frequently overspreading many 

 of the neighbouring branches, and forming large arbours: the withs 

 are slender, but tough and flexile, striated, stiff, and smooth: com- 

 mon petioles long, opposite, thickened at the base, round, very 

 smooth, terminating in a tendril, by which the branches are sup- 

 ported: the pinnas four-paired, petioled, oblong, blunt at top, emar- 

 ginate, nerved, smooth on both sides, shining: the glands none: the 

 tendril long, upright, bifid at the end: the spikes axillary, erect, 

 very long, many-flowered: the flowers approximating, subsessile, 

 small: most of them are abortive; and according to Browne, the 

 female plants throw out their flowers separate, and are succeeded by 

 so many pods. It is a native of both Indies, and in the West 

 Indies is called Cocoon. 



The twenty-seventh species is in height three or four feet: the 



