VACHELLIA. 
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For analogous occasional forms and variations of the 1. to those 
of the present pi. in G. sinensis Lam. see DC. Mem. des Legum. 
pp. 25, 117. t. i. 
tf Suborder III. MIMOSACE/E. 
ft 33. Acacia. 
tf 1. A. leucocephala (Lam.). Aroma branca. 
Unarmed nearly smooth; 1. bipinnate, pinnae in 4-5 pairs, 
lfts. in 12-15 pairs oblong-linear acute ; leafstalk downy with 
often a gland below the lowest pair of pinnae ; heads of fl. glo- 
bose axillary stalked mostly in pairs ; pod compressed thin, its 
stalk as long as the peduncle. — Link Enum. ii. 444 ; DC. ii. 467. 
Acacia glauca Hoiks List! J. of Bot. i. 21 (not Willd.). Mi- 
mosa leucocephala Lam. Diet. i. 12. — Shr. per. Mad. reg. 1, r. 
Seminaturalized in beds of Opuntia above the Gorgulho to the 
W. of Funchal, and in gardens. Throughout the year. — A low 
shr. 3 or 4 ft. high. Foliage dark dull gr. FI. dull creamy or dirty 
white slightly fragrant. Pods in large bunches very Hat and 
membranous but firm and stiff, about 3 in. long and nearly \ in. 
broad, dark brown. 
A. dealbata Link, a small tr. remarkable for its very fine and deli- 
cate bluish-grey foliage with little golden balls of fl. in axillary 
panicled rac., and A. lophantha Willd., a shr. with dark lurid- 
gr. foliage and pale whitish crest-like fl., are also commonly 
cult. The roots in both run near the surface, thowing up 
suckers, and in the latter sp. they are strongly fetid. A. verti- 
cillata Willd., Oxycedrus JSieb., longifolia Willd., Melanoxylon 
R. Br., &c., with many others of the anomalously leaved Au- 
stralian sp., are also not unfrequent in gardens, &c., particularly 
at the Mount, Camacha, &c., and like elevations of about 
2000 ft., at which most Australian pi. ( Banksice , Eucalypti , &c.) 
best flourish in Mad. 
ff34. Vachellia Arn. 
ffl. V. Farnesiana (L.). Aroma. 
Thorny, spines in pairs short straight divergent stipulary ; 
branchlets flexuose : young shoots, leafstalks, and ped. subpu- 
bescent ; 1. 2-pinnate, pinnae in 2 or 3-6 pairs, lfts. in 12-24 
mostly 14—16 pairs, linear smooth, with a gland below the lowest 
and sometimes between the uppermost pair ; heads of fl. globose 
axillary 1-3, often in pairs, unequally stalked ; pod rounded 
tapering at each end. — Wight and Am. Prodr. i. 272; Wight 
Ic. PI. Ind. Or. i. t. 300 ; WB. ii. 122. Acacia Farnesiana Willd. 
DC. ii. 461. Mimosa Farnesiana L. Desf. ii. 393. Mim. cornuta 
Bowdich Exc. p. 32. — Shr. per. Mad. reg. 1, cc. Seminatural- 
