36 BROAD-PODDED ACACIA. 
axills of the 2 or 3 uppermost leaves come out simple 
or aggregated peduncles, usually by 3’s, above, running 
together so as to form a small sparse flowered panicle, 
with each of the clusters subtended by rather large 
deciduous, amplexicaule, semicordate and acuminate 
smooth bractes, which resemble stipules. The flowers 
are disposed in spherical, rather small heads, on pedun- 
cles about f of an inch long; they appear white from 
the colour of the long tortuous hair-like stamens. The 
calyx is canescent, with a close pubescence, and 5-cleft 
at the summit. The corolla is deeply 5-parted, and of 
a purplish-brown, with oblong-lanceolate divisions. The 
stamens are 10 or more, with very long filaments, and 
very small whitish rounded anthers. The legume, (ac- 
cording to Dr. Blodgett,) is 4 or 5 inches long, flat, thin, 
many-seeded, and an inch or more in breadth. 
Plate LIII. 
A small branch of the natural size. a. The flower somewhat 
enlarged. 
