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with short, relatively thick pedicels and two or few ovules. Nearer 
still to the recentiy published Chinese B. Faberi, Oliver (Hooker’s 
* Ieones Plantarum,’ t. 1790), which is much more slender and 
nearly glabrous, with fewer-flowered racemes. We have not 
succeeded in finding what we could be sure was a perfect pistil, 
and we suspect that the flowers are really polygamous. 
DESCRIPTION OF PLATE VIII. 
Branch of Bauhinia tortuosa, Coll. et Hemsl., natural size. 
Fig. 1, a flower; 2, imperfect pistil; 3, section of ovary. Enlarged. 
LrGUMINOSÆ: Mimoseæ. 
Entada scandens, Benth.; Fl. Brit. Ind. ii. p. 287 : Forest Fl. 
Burma, i. p. 416.—Shan hills at 4000 feet. 
Throughout the tropics. 
Adenanthera pavonina, Linn. ; Fl. Brit. Ind. ii. p.287; Forest 
Fl. Burma, i. p. 417.—Shan hills terai at 2000 feet. 
Generally diffused in tropical Asia and extending into some 
subtropicai regions; also in Australia. 
Dichrostachys cinerea, Wight et Arnott; Fl. Brit. Ind. ii. 
p. 288.—Meiktila. 
North-west provinces of India and South India to Ceylon. 
Mr. Bentham (Trans. Linn. Soc. xxx. p. 383) regards the Ma- 
layan and N.-Australian specimens, formerly referred to this 
species, as belonging rather to the closely-allied tropical-African 
D. nutans, Benth. 
Neptunia triquetra, Benth.; Fl. Brit. Ind. ii. p. 286.— 
Meiktila. 
Central and South India. 
Mimosa pudica, Zinn. ; Fl. Brit. Ind. ii. p. 291.—Shan States. 
Now common in tropical India, though supposed to be a colonist 
from America. 
Acacia Farnesiana, Willd.; Fl. Brit. Ind. ii. p. 292; Forest 
Fl. Burma, i. p. 420.—Shan hills at 4000 feet. 
Commonly planted, and now diffused in a wild state throughout 
the warm regions of the earth. 
