In Latin, Eohinia Pseudo Acacia; in French, Acacie, 



322. The Botanical characters are : — The erapalement of the flower is 

 small, of one leaf, and divided into four parts; the three upper !;egments 

 being narrow, but the upper one is broad. The flower is of the pea-bloom 

 kind. The standard is large, roundish, obtuse, and spreads open. The two 

 wings are oval, and have short appendixes, which are obtuse. The keel is 

 roundish, compressed, obtuse, and is extended the length of the wings. Ja 

 the centre are situated ten stamina, nine of them being joined together, and 

 the other standing single, terminated by roundish summits. It has an oblong 

 cylindrical germen, supporting a slender style, crowned by a hairy stigma ; 

 these are inclosed by the keel. The germen becomes afterwards au oblong 

 compressed pod, inclosing kidney-shaped seeds. 



323. This is^ in my opinion, the tree of trees; it was, at 

 any rate, my desire to see this tree introduced into general 

 cultivation in England, that induced me to import the seed 

 and to sell the plants here j and that led, also, to the writing 

 and the publishing cf this work. I shall, therefore, leave in 

 this article nothing unsaid that I know upon the subject ; 

 and I believe I know as much on this subject, and perhaps 

 more, than any man in the world, and particularly as to the 

 propagation of the tree, which, when I have given the fullest 

 possible account of the valuable properties ^f the tree, I 

 shall make as easy to the reader as is the rearing of cab- 

 bages or turnips ; and that, too, at an expense so moderate, 

 as to make it next to impossible for any gentleman, who 

 has the seed, to refrain from cultivating this tree upon as 

 large a scale as his possessions will permit. 



