LEGUMINOSJE. 321 



Acacia arborea maxima, non spinosa, pinnis majoribus, flore 

 albo, siliqua contorta coccinea ventricosa elegantissima, Sloane, 

 II. t. 182. f. 1, 2. Mimosa arborea, Browne, 252 Stcartz, 

 Obs. 390. Acacia arborea, Willd. Spec. PL IV. 1064. 



HAB. Common in the mountains. 



FL. July. 



A lofty tree with spreading branches : branchlets brownish, 

 rimulose, striated. Leaves 9-12 inches long: pinna; 12-16- 

 paired, 56 inches long : leaflets 20 30-paired, shortly petiolu- 

 led, ovali-oblong, unequal at the base, bluntish : common petiole 

 roundish, angulose, ferrugineo-velutine, with a roundish de- 

 pressed green glandule between each pair of pinna; : partial 

 petioles terete, ferrugineo-velutine : petiolules very short, green, 

 incrassated. Heads of flowers axillary, two together, peduncled : 

 peduncles at right angles from each other, 2 inches in length, 

 terete, ferrugineo-velutine : flowers whitish flesh-coloured, nu- 

 merous. Calyx tubulose, 5-dentate, coloured, pubescent at the 

 mouth. Corolla more than twice the length of the calyx, 5-fid. 

 Filaments numerous, delicately capillary, matted : anthers mi- 

 nute, yellow. Legume roundish, contorted, scarlet, 4-5 inches 

 in length ; valves coriaceous, internally blood-coloured : seeds 

 spherical, black, shining. 



This is a valuable timber-tree, well adapted for flooring. 



I may here mention that A. BANCROFTIANA of Bertero has 

 proved to be C^ESALPINIA BIJUGA. 



* * * Petals imbricated ; stamens perigy no us. 



Tribe IX. Geoffrece. 

 Filaments variously connected. 



XL. ARACHIS. 



Calyx long, tubulose, pedicelliform, with the limb 

 ^-lipped. Corolla resupinate. Stamens inserted with 

 the petals in the throat of the calyx, 9 of them con- 

 nected and fertile, the 10th free and sterile. Ovary 

 stipitate; the stipe shortly after the opening of the 

 flower elongated. Legume ovato-oblong, obtuse at 

 both ends, gibbous, torulose, venoso-reticulated, cori- 

 aceous, indehiscent, 2-4-seeded: seeds thick, oily 

 within ; embryo straight ; radicle short, obtuse ; co- 

 tyledons semiellipsoid. De Cand. 



Name, derived from Aracos or Aracidna, a plant which, ac- 

 cording to Pliny, had neither stem nor leaves, but was all root. 

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