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fasciculafa, 1 Neboueb? Senegal? Segal,* and Verek? in Senegal; 

 A. gummifera? in Mauritania ; A. Mrenbergii, 7 Sega/; and 

 tortilis* in Arabia and Eastern Africa; A. capensis and horrida, in 

 South Africa ; ^/. leucophlcea, in India ; y/. decurrens," komalophglla," 

 melanoxylon™ mollissima, 13 pgcnantha, u and SopJiora" in Australia. 



Others, too, of the Mimosea besides the true Acacias also exude 

 gummy products, notably certain species of the sections Albizzia and 

 Zggia. A sort of gum is obtained in India from Acacia procera ; 16 

 another kind, analogous to gum arabic, is obtained from Acacia 

 Lebbekf while A. stipulator in Java furnishes a similar product. 

 The prototype species of the section Vachellia, A. Farnesiana, 19 is also 

 prized in Java for the gum it furnishes. In North America, again, 

 a peculiar gum is known called mezqiiite, 20 which flows from the trunk 

 of Prosopis glandulosa f A and another kind called copaltic sweats from 

 the bark of Calliandra portoricensis." The gum of Sassa, whose pro- 

 perties come nearer that of gum-tragacanth, comes, we are told, from 

 one of the Sassas of Bruce, 23 now referred to the section Zggia of the 

 genus Acacia (figs. 34, 35). 



Next the gums come several mucilaginous products, also due to 



1 Guile. & Peee., op. cit., 252. — H. Bn., 

 loc. cit., 106, n. 15. — Troisieme espece de Gom- 

 mier Adans. 



2 This name perhaps refers to one of the forms 

 of A. arabica (see H. Bn., loc cit., 117, n. 29). 



3 W., Spec, iv. 1077?— H. Bn., loc. cit, 

 121, n. 42. 



4 Del., Fl. Mgypt., 142, t. 52, fig. 2.— H. Bn., 

 loc. cit., n. 43.— Oliv., Fl. Trop. Apr., ii. 351. 



5 Guill. & Peee., op. cit., 245, t. 56. — 

 Guib., op. cit., iii. 408.— H. Bn., loc. cit., 125, 

 n. 49. — Oliv., loc. cit., 342. 



6 W., Spec., iv. 1056.— DC, Frodr., n. 67.— 

 Benth., loc. cit., 500, n. 256.— Guib., loc. cit., 

 408.— H. Bn., loc. cit., 108, n. 17. 



' Nees, Fl. Medic, 413. — H. Bn., loc. cit., 

 104, n. 13. 



8 See note 4. 



9 Foesk., Fl. Mgypt. Arab., i. 176.— H. Bn., 

 loc. cit., 124, n. 46.— Oliv., loc. cit., 352. 



10 W., Spec, iv. 1072.— H. Bn., loc. cit., 

 103, n. 12. — Mimosa decurrens Vent., Mahn., 

 t. 61. 



11 A. Cunn., ex Benth., loc. cit., 365, n. 148. 

 — H. Bn., loc. cit., 109, n. 19. 



12 R. Be., Sort. Few., v. 462.— II. Bn., 

 loc. cit., 114, n. 27. 



13 W., Fnum., 1053.— DC, loc cit., n.22L— 

 Lindl., Fl. Med., 270.— H. Bn., loc. cit., 116, 

 n. 'IS.— Wattle of the Australians. 



14 Benth., loc cit., 351, n. 98.— H. Bn., 

 loc cit,, 119, n. 38. 



15 R. Be., Sort. Few., v. 462.— H. Bn., lor. 

 cit., 122, n. 44. Besides various astringent sub- 

 stances, the five last species furnish the South 

 Australian gum of the English (see Lindl., Ft, 

 Med., 270). 



16 W., Spec, iv. 1063. — Mimosa procera 

 Roxb., PI. Coromand., ii. 12. 1. 121 ; Fl. Ind., 

 ii. 548. — M. coriacea Blanc, Fl. d. Filipp., 

 734?. — Albizzia procera Benih., in J/<»Jr. 

 Journ., iii. 89. 



'? W, loc cit., 1066. — A. speciosa \\ ., loc. 

 dt. — Mimosa Sirissa Roxb., Ft. Ind., ii. 511. — 

 M. Lebbek L. — Albizzia LebbeTc Benth., loc 

 c ;t., 87. — Oliv., loc cit., 358. — It is the Bois 

 afrire or afriture (frying-wood) of the Antilles ; 

 Cautwallee of Malabar; Cirsa or Shirisha of 

 Bengal; Cottonvaray of Coromandel. 



18 DC, Frodr., loccit., 460, n. 209. — Mimosa 

 stipulata Roxb., Cat., 40. — Albizzia stvpulata 

 Boiv., loc. cit. 



19 See page41,notel.— GWB.,Droff.Simpl.,4d. 

 4, iii. 366, fig. 358.— Ri >- 1 fTH L058. 



20 Rosbnth., op. cit., 1052. 



21 Toee., in A, in. Lye. N< w- VorJc, ii. t. 2.— 

 Algarobia glandtilosa ToBE. & Gb. 



'--' Benth., in Eoolc. Journ., ii. 138. Acacia 

 portoricensis \\\, loc cit., 1067. 

 23 See trad. CASTJ R., v. 89, t. I, 6. 



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