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acute, serrate, palmately nerved, green to somewhat purplish when young, paler beneath;
petiole, 8 to 50 cm long, with 2 glands at apex; flowers, monoecious, small, petal-less in
large terminal (appearing axillary) paniculate clusters (cymules), 10 to 35 cm long, with
male flowers at the base and female flowers on the top; male flowers, with 3 to 5 calyx
lobes, very numerous stamens variously connate in branching clusters; female flowers,
with caducous, spathaceous calyx, ovary 3-celled, styles spreading usually bifid; fruit, 1
to 2 cm long, ovoid, capsular, softly spiny, green to purplish-brown, with three 1-seeded
lobes, dehiscent; seeds, 0.5 to 1.5 cm long, oblong-ellipsoid, compressed dorsally,
smooth, mottled with brown, black and grey or white, very oily. Weed of roadsides and
waste places. 3, 4(137N), 5(145), 6, 7, 8.
Synadenium cupulare (Boiss.) Wheeler
Recent introduction. Trop. Africa. Rare. Large, succulent shrub, 1 to 1.6 m high,
with thick cylindrical, thornless branches; leaves, 5 to 10 crn long, alternate, inverted
ovate or obovate, thick, cuneate, taprring to a short petiole; flowers, small, red, borne in
cyathia in axillary and terminal umbels, with a greenish-yellow gland. Pot plant at Cliff
Lodge. 5, 6.
FABACEAE OR LEGUMINOSAE (Bean, Pea or Legume Family)
Acacia farnesiana (L.) Willd. "sweet acacia", "West Indian blackhorn", "cassie flower",
" klu" (Hawaii) katin, debena (B)(N); te bakoa, te kai bakoa (K)
syns. Mimosa .farnesiana L. ; Vachdlia farnesiana (L.) W. & A.
Pre-World War I1 introduction. Trop America. Occasional. Erect, much-branching
shrub, up to 3 m or higher, the trunk and branches bearing numerous straight, slender
stipular spines, 4 to 30 mm long; leaves, dark green, finely divided, bipinnate, with 2 to
6 (rarely 8) pairs of compound leaflets (pinnae), 1 to 4 cm long, each with 8 to 25 pairs
of small leaflets, 3 to 6 mm long and 1 to 1.5 mm wide; flowers in pedunculate axillary
heads, 1 to 3 heads together, peduncles, 1 to 3 cm long; flower heads, about 1.3 cm
across, subglobose, yellow to yellow-orange, fragrant, stamens numerous; fruit, a pod, 5
to 8 cm long and 8 to 15 mm in diameter, plump, cylindrical or subterete, curved, dark
brown to black, indehiscent; pulp, sweetish; seeds, compressed, elliptic, brown. Found in
waste places and on roadsides. Glue made from seed pod. 2, 3(58640), 4(159N), 5, 6, 7,
8(9568).
Acacia sp. "acacia"
Recent introduction. Australia? Rare. Planted ornamental tree. 3(58699).