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The eighteenth has the leaves destitute of 

 glands : the pinnas from twelve to twenty, an 

 inch in length : the hundlcs of flowers pedun- 

 <'led : the legume a span long. It is cultivated 

 in the gardens at Cairo, where it fiou ers in June, 

 and becomes a large tree. It is probably aaia- 

 tive of Egypt. 



The nineteenth has tliebraetcas half-cordate: 

 the peduncles in threes: the flowers in heads: 

 an obsolete gland on the common petiole below 

 the partial pinnas : the germs are globular, two- 

 valved ; with two roundish, concave or hemi- 

 spherical 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 opposite on the inside : on the com- 

 mon 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-iirst, the leaves divide into 

 many ramifications : the leaflets are roundish, 

 and placed in a 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 fruteseent, be- 

 ing a large procumbent branching shrub : the 

 panicle very much branched, naked, terminat- 

 ing 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 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, poly- 

 gamous, 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 stepping cracks both in houses 

 and boats. 



The twenty-third sort has the flowers many- 

 stamened, sessile : the leaves arc like those of the 

 Walnut ; and the flowers are purple. It is a 

 native of South America. 



The twenty-fourth has alfo puiplc 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 



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bud is a pair of horizontal, whitish, stipular 

 thorns, the length of the leaves : the leaves aPe 

 petioled, conjugate, or one-paired, with pinnate, 

 six-paired leallets : the conmion petiole termi- 

 nated above by a gland, beneath by a prickle : 

 the leaflets (jblong-linear, blunt, at equal di- 

 stances, the lowest smaller : the legume oval, a 

 hand in length and half as much in breadth, 

 compressed, 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 

 lifiy feet, frequently overspreading many of the 

 neiohbourin": branches, and formiii"; larce ar- 

 hours : the withs are slender, but tough and 

 flexile, striated, stiff, and smooth : common 

 petioles long, opposite, thickened at the base, 

 round, very smooth, terminating in a tendril, by 

 v\hieh tlie branches are supported: the pinnas 

 four-paired, petioled, oblong, blunt at top, 

 cmarginate, nerved, smooth on both sides, 

 shining: the glands none: the tendril long, 

 upright, bifid at the end: the spikes axillary, 

 erect, very long, niany-flowered : the flowers ap- 

 proximating, subsessile, small : most of them 

 are abortive : and according to Browne, the fe- 

 male plants throw out their flowers separate, a:id 

 are succeeded by so many pods. It is a native 

 of both Indies, and in the West Indies is called 

 Cocoon. 



The tv\'enty-sevcnth species is in height three 

 or four feet: the branches alternate, upright, 

 angular, with a very tough smooth bark : the 

 leaves of the young seedlings in pairs and pin- 

 nated, with oval leaflets : but when the stem 

 rises, the common footstalks of its leaves be- 

 come dilated, the leaflets cease to appear, and 

 the whole shrub is furnished only with such di- 

 lated naked footstalks, which are to all intents 

 and purposes leaves . they are alternate, vertical, 

 smooth, firm and glaucous : the stipules none : 

 on their upper edge near the base a small con- 

 cave gland : the racemes are axillary, solitary, 

 erect, of about six alternate heads, each having 

 three or four small white flowers : the pod linear, 

 pointed, zigzag, brown, with a very thick mar- 

 gin : the seeds about six, oblong: the flowers 

 on the young branches are very numerous, and 

 fragrant, like those of Spiraea Ulmaria. It is a 

 native of New South Wales. 



It produces ripe pods, and perfects seeds in the 

 stove, but in the green-house the flowers go oft' 

 without any tendency to produce fruit. It is a 

 shrub of quick growth, and w hich blows very 

 readily. 



According to Mr. Curtis, the foliage is usually 

 edged with red. 



In the twenlv-ciohth the branches are most 

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