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FABACEJE, OR LEGUMINOSJE.A bush, about 10 feet high: branches terete, ash-coloured, sometimesunarmed ;branchlets flexuose, glabrous ; spines stipulary, short, straight.Leaves bipinnate: leaflets 1 -paired sessile, very obtuse or subemarginateat the apex, nerved, glabrous:petiole subulate, channelled above. Aminute gland at the extremity of the common, and another at that ofthe partial petioles. Racemes terminal, of 2-3 simple branches. Peduncleangular, minutely downy. Flowers greenish yellow, sessile, furnishedat the insertion with a minute ovate bractlet. Calyx small, 5-toothed, with the teeth rather indistinct. Corolla more than twice thelength of the calyx, 5-fid, with the teeth acute. Filaments capillary,yellow, matted, three times the length of the corolla. Legumes red,torulose, twisted in a spiral manner : seeds 5-6, black, shining,roundish, compressed, half-buried in a snow-white fleshy arillus-likepellicle.A decoction of the bark very astringent. It has the reputationof acting as a diuretic, and has been employed externally as a lotionand injectionin cases of relaxation of the parts. Macfadyen.272

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