Mmosa.l ^' legumixos^. (J. G. Baker.) 291 



125. IlIZniOSAjLinn. 



^^ Shrubs or herbs, witli or without prickles. Leaves in the indigenous species 

 lipinnate ; leaflets small, sensitive, ligulate, caducous. Floicers luinute, in 

 dense globose heads, polygamous, in the Indian species mostly tetramerous. 

 Calyx campanulate, shortly toothed. Petals connate towai^ds the base. Stamem 

 twice the number of the petals, much exserted, filaments filiform, free ; anthers 

 not gland-crested. Ovary stalked, many-ovuled ; style filiform, stigfrna minute 

 terminal. Tod flat, membranous, made up of 1-seeded joints that sepai-ate 

 ^hen mature from the sutures. — Distrib, Species 230, mostly confined to 

 'Trop. America. 



^ 1. BE. pudica, Linn, ; DC Prodr, ii. 426; stem and rachises copiously 

 bristly and prickly, leaves digitate, pod small with densely prickly sutures. 

 Hoxh.Hort. Bmg:4:l ; FL Ind. ii. 6G4; Wall Cat. 5292. 



Spread through the hotter parts of India, possibly introduced from Trop. America. 



Shrubby, the copious bristly hairs of the branchlets and petioles defiexed, those 

 <>f the leaf-rachis ascending, Pinnm of the leaves 3-4, nearly sessile, 2-3 in. long; 

 leaflets 24-40, glabrous, subcoriaceous. Flowers in small peduncled heads, all down 

 the branches, 1-2 from each axil. Pod ^ in. long, 3-4-seeded, with very abundant 

 straw-coloured weak prickles from both sutures, as long as the breadth of the pod. 



2. in. rubicaulis, Lam. ; DC. Prodr. ii. 429; rachises copiously prickly 

 not bristly, leaves bipinnate, pinnee 8-20, pod strap-shaped, the sutures mostly 

 ^thout prickles. JFalL Cat. 6289 ; TF. 8^ A. Prodr. 268 ; Dak. Sf Gibs. Bomb, 

 ^j- 85. M. octandra, Roxb. Cor. PI. i. 200 ; Hort. Beng. 41 ; Fl. Ind. ii. oG4. 

 *u. mutabilis, Roxb. Hort. Benq. 41 ; Fl. Ind. loc. cit. M. Rottleri, Spreng. 

 ■%«^. ii. 206. 



Western Himalayas, ascending to 5000 ft. in Kumaon, westward to Mishmi and 

 ^^I^' ^^^ through India proper.— Distrib. Afghanistan. 



A low tree, with slender grooved finely grey-downy branches, armed with copious 

 sniall scattered hooked spines. Leaflets 12-24, membranous, i^^ in. long, rather 

 ^wny below, not venulose, with an obscure recurved cusp. Heads f-J in. broad, on 



li^ i>~* ^"- "y 8-8 in-. C-10-seeded, th 

 ■ ■?««, KotUer) with a few distant prickles. 



n^f i' •*?• Jiamata, Willd. : DC. Pn 



"r, 7%, leaves Hpinnate, pinnjE 6-8 

 JJ^ed with larpe hooked pricldes. W. > 

 '• «5. M. anuata. Jlottl. : Swena. Si/si 



Wall. 



kH.^^ ''"'^^ to ^^^- rubicaulis, with which ii agrees in prickles, general hal.it and 

 ClaW ""'''''• -^««>^« 12-20, oblique, ligulate-ol.long, ^-i ni. long do.vny or 

 "*"«• Pod rather shorter and Lroader, downy or glabrous, 4-G-seeded. 



eitht ^V^epiaria, BoM. in Hooh. Jouni. Bot. iv. 395 ; i-achises without 

 JJW Pnckles or bristles, leaves bipinnate, pinnae 12-14, pod ligulate with un- 

 ^ Sutures. 



Asia?^^^^^' &//o;«6wr^/t, Maingay.^Di^TniB. China. Doubtless introduced into 

 A ir^ I^^P* America, where it is common. 



Zea%t7'^?P shrub, glabrous except the leaf-rachises, which are slightly downy. 



2-20, rigidly coriaceous, nf 



narrow ligulate, caducous, H in. long, with a 



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