338 MB. J. G. BATTER OTf THE 



minute, globose. Pod straight, oblong, thin, rigid, brown, 1-2- 

 seeded, stipitate, 1-2 in. long, ±-§ in - D road > very little thickened 

 against the seeds, but with copious veins radiating from them. 

 — Baron 2598 ! A valuable timber. Native name " Voamboana." 



Cadia pedicellata, n. sp. 



Arborea, ramulis glabris, foliis breviter petiolatis imparipinnatis, foliolis 

 11-17 oblongo-oblanceolatis obtusis rigidulis oppositis vel altemis, racemis 

 axillaribus paucifloris, pedicellis longissimis, bracteis linearibus, calycis 

 magni dentibus deltoideis, petalis obovatis calyce sesquilongioribus, sta- 

 minibus petalis aequilongis, ovario lineari stipitato. 



A tree, glabrous in all its parts, with angled slender branchlets. 

 Leaves crowded, 3-4 in. long ; leaflets about an inch long, shortly 

 stalked, firm in texture, green and glabrous on both surfaces, 

 entire, minutely emarginate at the apex. Eacemes 2-3-flowered, 

 axillary, much shorter than the leaves ; pedicels slender, glabrous, 

 ascending, 1-1^ in. long ; bracts minute, linear. Calyx cam- 

 panulate, greenish, glabrous, § in. long ; teeth \-\ as long as 

 the tube. Petals obovate, imbricated, an inch long. Stamens as 

 long as the petals ; anthers minute, oblong, versatile. Ovary 

 linear, glabrous, stipitate. Legume not seen. — Baron 2248! 

 Near C. pubescens, Bojer, described in my last paper, Journ. Linn. 

 Soc. xx. p. 135. 



Mimosa dastphtlla, n. sp. 



M. ramulis validis angulatis aculeis crebris miniitis sparsis armatis, foliis 

 amplis bipinnatis, pinnis 7-8-jugis, foliolis 10-12-jugis oblongis petiolu- 

 latis utrinque pubescentibus, floribus copiose paniculatis, calycis dentibus 

 deltoideis, corollse segmentis lanceolato-deltoideis, staminibus exsertis, 

 legumine curvato tenui stipitato 6-8-spermo suturis inermibus. 



Branchlets stout, woody, strongly angled, brown, shining* 

 armed with copious scattered small hooked prickles. Leaves 

 half a foot long, including the 1-1| in. petiole, with a prickly 

 rhachis; pinnae 2-2| in. long; leaflets % in. long, moderately firm 

 in texture, with an excentric midrib, grey and densely pubescent 

 beneath, green and less pubescent above. Flowers in an ample 

 deltoid terminal panicle with prickly branches. Calyx one third 

 as long as the funnel-shaped corolla, which is y^ in. long. Pod 

 thin, strap-shaped, curved, distinctly stipitate, 4-5 in. long, ^-f in. 

 broad, thickened a little opposite the 6-8 seeds.— Baron 2420 ! 

 Allied to M. nissobiensis, Benth. 



