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25. LEGUMINOSiE. 
about Funchal in March or Apr., forming a tr. 20 or 30 ft. high 
covered with a profusion of brilliant deep-rose or peach-coloured 
subpapilionaceous blossoms produced before the new 1. 
ft Tribe XI. Ceratoniece. 
++31. Ceratonta L. 
t+1. C. SlLiQEA L. Carob-tree or St. John’s Bread. Alfarroba. 
Unarmed ; 1. pinnate, lfts. coriaceous broadly oval obtuse flat 
with waved edges. — Desf. ii. 395 ; Brot. i. 307 ; DC. ii. 486 ; 
Koch 227. — Arb. per. Mad. reg. 1, •§. In gardens about Fimchal 
and elsewhere ; occasionally in the open country detached tr. here 
and there seminaturalized. — A large wide-spreading low dark 
evergreen tr., with a short thick much gnarled and rugged trunk, 
and long wide-spreading horizontal branches when old ; more 
pyramidal compact and bushy when young. Lfts. in 2-4 pairs, 
very dark shining gr. above, paler and without lustre beneath, 
hard stiff and coriaceous, 1^-2 A in. long and lj- 2 in. broad ; 
their footstalks often reddish. FI. and pods produced in bunches 
on short spurs from the thicker branches, and in old tr. even 
from the st. itself ; the former in short rac., but without petals 
and altogether inconspicuous. Pod dehiscent, 4-6 in. long and 
in. broad, straight pendulous compressed and flat, but half 
as thick as broad, with raised tumid margins, very hard and 
stiff; when ripe containing a fleshy brown pulp smelling like 
the lees of beer, and 6-10 remote roundish compressed dark- 
brown seeds. 
t+t32. Gleditschia L. 
tttl. G. TRICANTHOS L. Honey Locust-tree. Alfarroba. 
L. bipinnate or pinnate ; lfts. linear-oblong subserrulate, 
sometimes partially combined ; pods pendulous membranaceous 
very long and flat, more or less waved or twisted, many-seeded. 
—DC. ii. 479. 
a. armata ; armed with long stout simple or compound spines 
compressed and 3-fid at the base. G. tnacantlios Brot. ii. Add. 
483; Spr. iii. 918; DC. 1. c. 
/3. inernm DC. 1. c. ; nearly or quite unarmed. — Arb. per. 
Mad. cult. rog. 1, I 11 gardens about Funchal. May, June. — 
A tall tr. with thin light and elegant deciduous foliage, incon- 
spicuous fl. in short deciduous lateral spikes, and enormously 
largo thin membranaceous shining dark-brown pods, about a 
foot long and 1A in. broad, filled with a sweetish peculiar-fla- 
voured pulp. Thoms in a. very large and strong, 1-3 in. long, 
branched at the base, very uselul spikes for eating mulberries. 
