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CAL VCI FLORAE. 
14. Acacia trichophylloides. 
Acacia. 
Delicately-leaved 
Unarmed, pinnae 12-paired, leaflets 35-40-paired 
dimidiato-oblongo-linear acute ciliated, a glandule 
beneath the lowest and the terminal pair of pinnae, 
peduncles 4 together axillary. 
Mimosa angustifolia, Lam. Diet. I. 12 ? — Acacia angustiloba, 
De Cand. Prod. II. 470. 
HAB. Common, Port- Royal mountains. 
FL. May, June. 
A tree, varying from 10 to 40 feet in height: branches 
spreading, towards their extremities angulose, of a rufous purple 
colour, velutino-pubescent. Leaves bipinnate, about 6 inches 
in length: pinnae usually 12-paired, about 2 inches in length: 
leaflets about 35-paired, very small, scarcely one-fourth of an 
inch in length, subsessile, linear, subfalcate, dimidiato-oblong, 
unequilateral and subcordate on one side at the base, acute, 
ciliated : common petiole tetragonal with the lowest side the 
broadest, puberulous, bearing a rather large orbiculate depres- 
sed glandule beneath the lowest and another beneath the terminal 
pair of pinna) : partial petioles (of the pinna;) subtetragonal, 
puberulous. Stipules scarcely any. Peduncles axillary, 4 to- 
gether, divaricating, about an inch in length, sub-3-gonal, pu- 
berulous, coloured on two of the sides, and obscurely sulcated 
on the other, each bearing a dense head of about 50 sessile 
white flowers. Calyx 5-toothed. Petals 5, much longer than 
the calyx, oblong, subacute, externally puberulous. Stamens 
10, more than twice the length of the petals: filaments white, 
erecto-patent , anthers oblong, pale yellow. Ovary oblong, 
compressed, albido-villous with appressed hairs : style somewhat 
longer and thicker than the stamens : stigma obtuse. Legume 
3-4 inches in length, linear, with the margin (from some of the 
seeds being abortive) subsinuated, shortly stipitate, uncinato- 
apiculated with a persistent portion of the style, membranace- 
ous, glabrous, 9-14-seeded. 
This tree is commonly called the Bastard Tamarind. Its 
stem never attains any great size, so as to render it deserving 
of the name of a timber-tree. 
15. Acacia arborea. Wild Tamarind. 
Unarmed, the very young branchlets and petioles 
ferrugineo-velutine, pinnae 12-16-jugate, leaflets 20- 
30-jugate oblongo-dimidiatc glabrous, a depressed 
glandule between each pair of pinnae, capitules of 
flowers 2-3 axillary peduncled. 
