Acacia LEGUMINOS^ 141 



Wullschlaegel. — Hispaniola, Porto Rico, St. Thomas, St. Cruz, St. Martin, 

 St. Bartholomew, Antigua, Guadeloupe, Martinique, St. Vincent, Grenada, 

 Trinidad, Mexico, tropical S. America. 



Shrub 6 to 25 ft., or tree to 50 ft. Pinnse in 6-12 pairs, 3-7 cm. 1. ; 

 leaflets in 15-40 pairs, oblong-linear, 5-9 mm. 1. Flower-heads in wide- 

 spreading panicles. Flowers white. Calyx minute, just over 1 mm. 1. 

 Corolla 2-2-2-5 mm. 1. Pod 8-15 cm. 1., 1-5-2-5 cm. br. 



[A. pugata Buch.-Ham. MS. .in Wall. Cat. n. 5251 (nomen) ; 

 trailing shrub, climbing to a height of 20 to 30 ft. ; prickles 

 numerous, scattered ; flowers in globular heads ; pod thick, 

 fleshy, generally constricted between the seeds and breaking at 

 the joints, the valves only splitting open after some time.— 

 A. concinna DC. Prodr. ii. 464 (1825) ; Benth. in Trans. Linn. 

 Sac. XXX. 531. Mimosa rugata Lam. Encyc. i. 20 (1783). 

 M. concinna Willd. Sp. PI. iv. 1039 (1805). 



Naturalized; Gordon Town, 900 ft., J.P. 1133, Hartl also Harris \ 

 Fl. Jam. 8253. — Native of India and the Malay Archipelago. 



Pinnas in 4-8 pairs, 5-8 cm. 1. ; leaflets, 12-30 pairs, oblong or linear, 

 unequal-sided, very oblique at the base, obtuse, 7-14 mm. 1. Peduncles 

 clustered 2-5 together, forming, on the fall of the leaves, a subpaniculate 

 raceme. Calyx 3 mm. 1. Corolla 4 mm. 1. Pod to 13 cm. 1. , 1 • 5-2 cm. br.] 



§ 3. Shrubs, without spines or prickles, erect, usually hairy. 

 Flowers in short spikes or oblong heads, 2 or 3 togethei- 

 in the upper axils, becoming paniculate at the ends of 

 branches. Flowers stalked. Pod flat, valves thin, with 

 rib-like margins. 



4. A. villosa Willd. Sp. PL 1067 (1806) ; Macf. Jam. i. 319 ; 

 Griseh. Fl. Br. W. Lid. 221 ; Benth. in Trans. Linn. Sac. xxx. 

 532. A, non spinosa latiore folio villosa &c. Houstoun MSS. 23. 

 A. lophanthoides DC. Prodr. ii. 457 (1825); Macf. Jam. i. 314. 

 Mimosa villosa Sw. Fl. Lid. Occ. 982 (1800). 'The specimen 

 named M. arhorea in Herb. Linn, belongs to this species. Type 

 (Houstoun's specimen) in Herb. Mus. Brit. 



HoustounX Wright I Browfiel Liguanea hills, Broughton\ common, 

 low hills on the south side, Macfadyen I Negro River, Purdic ! Morant 

 Bay, Oersted 1 Wilson ; Prior ! March 1 King's House grounds, J.P. 1318, 

 1350, Fawcettl Billy Dunn Pen, Liguanea, 500 ft., Campbelll Hope 

 grounds, 700 ft., Harris ! — Central America. 



Shrubby tree, 6-12 ft. high, villose or rarely glabrous. Pinnie in 5 or 6 

 (4-10) pairs, 3-6 cm. 1. ; leaflets in 10-16(-30) pairs, elliptical-oblong, 

 unequal-sided, apex obtuse or somewhat acute, base rounded, 4-8 mm. 1. ; 

 petiole without a gland ; stipules lanceolate, deciduous. Calyx minute, 

 •7 mm. 1. Corolla 2 -2-2 -5 mm. 1. Pod 3 -5-4 -5 cm. 1., 8-10 mm. br. 



A. latisiliqua Willd. Sp. PI. iv. 1067 (1806) is stated by Macfadyen 

 (Jam. i. 318) to be " commonly cultivated in towns." Urban (Symb. Ant. ii. 

 265) suggests that it is identical with Lysiloma hahamensis Benth., a 

 species found in Florida Keys, Bahamas, Cuba, and Yucatan. 



