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jugal, oblong, or elliptical-oblong, usually unequal-sided, glabrous or glabrescent beneath ; 

 racemes solitary or geminate ; legume sinuate, twisted. — Tuss. FL 3. t. 21. Desc. Ft. 3. 

 t. 200. — Mimosa, L. Acacia, W. E. gigalobium, DC. — Climbing to an immense height ; 

 leaflets 3"-l", legume 2'-8' long. — Hab. Jamaica !, AL, common in mountain-woods ; [Gua- 

 deloupe!; trop. Africa! and Asia!; Pacific islands]. 



203. E. polystachya, DC. Unarmed, at length cfrrhiferous; pinna 4-&(-2)-jugal : 

 leaflets 6-S-jugal, oblong, rounded at the top, glabrous or puberulous beneath ; racemes in 

 terminal panicles ; legume oblong, entire, straightish. — DC. Leg. t. 61, 62. Jacq. Amer. 

 Pict. t. 262./. 67. — Mimosa, Jacq. M. chiliantha, Mey. ! — Leaflets about 1" long ; racemes 

 2"-3" long, spreading, densely crowded ; legume 12'^-6" long. — Hab. Dominica I, Imr. ; 

 S. Vincent!, Guild.; Trinidad I, Or. ; [Panama!, Venezuela!, Guiana!]. 



77. PIPTADENIA, Benth. 



Flowers of Entada. Legume broadly linear, flat-compressed, bivalved : seeds compressed. 

 — Woody plants ; leaves bipinnate, with petiolar glands ; flowers sessile, in heads or spikes. 



204. P. peregrina, Benth. ! Pinnae 15-30-jugal .- leaflets 30-80-jugal, minute, linear, 

 glabrescent : petiole puberulous, bearing a gland above its base ; flower-heads globose, small, 

 much shorter than the puberulous peduncle ; legume moniliform-sinuate, stipitate : valves 

 coriaceous, rough. — Kth. Mimos. t. 30. — Mimosa, L. — A high, unarmed tree ; leaflets 1"'— 

 2'", legume 6"-3" long : flowers white. The flowers are sometimes reduced in parts, and 

 the anther-gland is caducous. — Hab. S.Vincent!, Anders.; cultivated in Trinidad!, Cr. ; 

 [New Granada, Guiana!, Brazil!]. 



78*. ADENANTHERA, L. 



Calyx 5-4-dentate. Stamens 10-8: anthers ovoid-oblong, with a stipitate, terminal 

 gland. Legume linear, compressed, tumid with biconvex seeds, bivalved. — Trees ; leaves bi- 

 pinnate ; flowers in racemes. 



205*. A. pavonina, L. Piunse 2-5-jugal, distant : leaflets 6-10-jugal, alternate, oval, 

 or oval-oblong, glabrous ; stamens included, with the glands exserted ; legume slightly fal- 

 cate. — Jacq. Coll. 4. t. 23. — Leaflets about 1" long; pedicels as long as the flower; legume 

 6"-8" long, 6'" broad. — Hab. Naturalized in Jamaica !, AL, WullschL, and in the Caribbean 

 Islands ! ; [introduced from the East Indies !]. 



79. PROSOPIS, L. 



Calyx 5-dentate. Stamens 10 : anthers ovoid-oblong, mostly with a terminal gland. Le- 

 gume linear, indehiscent, baccate. — Woody plants; leaves bipinnate; flowers spicate : petals 

 internally villous in the American species. 



206. P. juliflora, DC. Armed with axillary spines, glabrous ; pinna; 1-2-jugal : leaflets 

 20-15-jugal, linear-obloug, blunt ; spikes elongated ; legume falcate, entire, compressed, at 

 length thickish : endocarp separating into a series of closed joints. — Desc. Fl. 8. t. 550. — 

 Mimosa, Sw. (M. piliflora, Sw. FL, is a misprint). Algarobia, As. Gr. P. dulcis, var. do- 

 mingensis, Benth. I — P. dulcis, Kth., has a straightish, sinuate legume ; P. glandulosa, 

 Torr., has the legume nearly as in our species, but longer and less numerous leaflets. — A 

 tree, 30'-40' high, sometimes reduced to a dwarfish shrub ; petioles bearing a sessile gland 

 between the pinna; ; leaflets 4"'-6"' long, l"'-2"' broad (much smaller than in P. glandulosa 

 of Texas); legume 6"-8" long, 6'" broad, at length 3"'-4'" thick.— Hab. Jamaica!, AL, 

 common in dry districts ; [Mexico ! to Guayaquil !]. 



80. NEPTUNIA, Lour. 



Calyx o-dentate. Stamens 10 (-5) : anthers ovoid-oblong, with a stipitate, terminal gland. 

 Legume oblong, flat-compressed, membranaceous, bivalved. — Herbs ; leaves bijjinnate : sti- 

 pules obliquely cordate-subulate ; flow er-heads peduncled. 



207. N. oleracea,- Lour. Floating, radicant, glabrous; pinna; 2-3-jngal : petiole 

 'glandular .- leaflets 8-20-jugaI, linear-oblong ; flower-heads ovoid : inferior flower* sterile, 



