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snort. Heads of flowers axillary, peduncled, usually three to- 
gether, small, not half the size of those of A. tortuosa. Pe- 
duncles about an inch in length. Calyx minute, thin, mem- 
branaceous, 4-5-dentate. Petals 4-5, united into a 4-5-cleft 
corolla ; divisions somewhat longer than the calyx. Stamens 
numerous, yellow about 4 longer than the corolla : ovary com- 
pressed, minutely puberulous : style length of the stamens, 
rather thick : stigma obtuse. Legume 3-4 inches in length, 
spongy, roundish, compressed, incano- villous. 
8. * Acacia macracanthoides. Large-flowered 
Acacia. 
Spines in pairs terete, branches, petioles, and pe- 
duncles pubescent, pinnae 12-14-jugate, leaflets 25- 
jugate oblongo-linear glabrous, a glandule beneath 
the lowest, and between the terminal pairs of pinnae, 
heads in pairs axillary on long peduncles. 
Bertero , De Cand. Prod. II. 463. 
hab. ? 
FL. ? 
9. Acacia subinermis. Short-spined Acacia . 
Spines in pairs subulate short, brancldets, petioles, 
and peduncles pubescent, pinnae 20-40-paired, leaf- 
lets 20-40-paired linear oblong glabrous, a glandule 
beneath the lowest, and one between the 2-5 termi- 
nal pairs of pinnae, heads of flowers 2-3 together pe- 
duncled axillary. 
Bertero , De Cand. Prod. II. 463. 
HAB. Salt Pouds district, St Catherine’s. 
FL. March. 
A tree, attaining 20-30 feet in height : branches spreading, 
terete, papillose, villous towards their extremities. Spines in 
the younger plants distinct ; in the old, small, stipulary, subu- 
late, about 2 lines in length. Leaflets very small, glabrous, 
about 2 lines in length : common petiole villous, bearing a sub- 
globose depressed glandule beneath the lowest pair of pinna?, 
and one between each of the 2-5 terminal pairs. Peduncles 
short, usually 2 together. Flowers numerous, small, crowded 
into a head, yellow. Calyx obscurely 5-toothed. Corolla 
somewhat longer, 5-fid. Stamens cd, longer than the corolla. 
Legume linear, roundish, compressed, torulose, villous, ash- 
coloured, 12-seeded: seeds roundish, compressed, of a chesnut 
colour. 
