and are fucceeded by fmall berries of a red colour 
when ripe. The leaves have been ufed as a fubfti- 
tute for Bohea Tea., whence the name of Mountain 
G L E D I T S I A. 
TRIPLE-THORNED ACACIA, or HONEY LOCUST, 
Clafs 23. Order 2. Polygamia Dioecia. 
HE Flowers are Male and Hermaphrodite upon the fame 
plant, and Female upon a different plant. 
* The Male are in a long, comp aft, cylindrical katkin. 
The Calyx ; a proper empalement of four leaves* the leaves 
fpreading, fmall and acute. 
The Corolla confifls of three petals, roundifh, feffile, fpreading, 
and cup form. 
A NeBarium, top-ihaped, to whofe borders the remaining 
parts of fruftification grow. 
The Filaments are fix, thread-form, and the length of the co- 
rolla. The Anthers are incumbent, oblong, compreffed and 
twin. 
* The Hermaphrodite are in the fame katkin with the male flow- 
ers, and for the moft part terminal. 
The Calyx , an empalement, four leaved, as in the male. 
The Corolla , four petals, as in the male. 
The NeBarium as in the male. 
The Stamina as in the male. 
The Piftillum , Seed-vejfel, and Seeds as in the female. 
* The Female Flowers are in a loofe katkin, in a different plant. 
Tli e Calyx; a proper empalement, as in the male, but five leaved. 
The Corolla , five petals. Which are long, acute, and fomewhat 
fpreading. 
The NeBaria are two, very fhort, like the filaments. 
The Germen is broad, compreffed, and longer than the corolla. 
The Style is fnort and reflexed. The Stigma is thick and the 
length of the flyle, to which it is adjoined, growing hairy 
above. 
The Seed-vejjel is a legumen or pod, very large, broad, and 
much compreffed, with many tranfverfe partitions ; with 
ifthmufes filled with pulp. 
The §eeds are folitary, roundifh, hard and Aiming. 
Tea. 
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