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duncled heads ; corolla slender, much longer than the minute calyx ; stamens 10 : tube 

 shortly exserted; legume straightish, lanceolate-linear, stipitate, glabrous: valves charta- 

 ceous.— Plum. Ed. Burm. t. 10./.1.— Mimosa, L. Iuga, W— A shrub; leaflets 6"'-12'", 

 peduncles 18"'-3'", corolla 4"', stamens 18"'-15"' loug; legume %"-Z" long, 4'" broad: 

 stalk 1'" long. — Hab. Dominica!, Imr. ; S. Lucia !, Anders. ; S. Vincent !, Guild. ; Trini- 

 dad !, Cr. (where it is perhaps not native). 



246. C. Guildingii, Benlh. ! Unarmed, glabrous; pinna \-jugal .- leaflets %-1-jugal, 

 semi-elliptical, bluntish, inferior decrescent, rhomboid ; flowers sessile, in peduncled heads; 

 corolla slender, 3-2 times as long as the calyx ; stamens 10 : tube shortly exserted ; legume 

 curved, lanceolate-linear, long-taperiui; below : valves chartaceous, with very thick maririns. 

 —Leaflets 2"-8'", peduncles 2"-l", corolla 6"'-5'", purple stamens 2" long ; legume 5''-4" 

 long, 3"'-2'" broad.— Hab. S. Vincent !, Guild. ; introduced in Trinidad !, Lane. 



§ 4. Stamens 20-40. — Leaflets broad, 8-10-jugal. 



247. C. comosa, Benth. Unarmed, glabrous; pinna Z-2-jugal : leaflets \0-8-jugal, 

 oblong-trapeziform, broadly truncate at the base, oblique above; flowers sessile, in peduncled, 

 corymbose heads ; legume curved, lanceolate-linear, compressed, stipitate, glabrous : valves 

 coriaceous. — Mimosa, Sw. ! Inga, W. Pithecolobium, Benth. — A shrub, 15'-20' high : 

 habit of Pithecolobium micradenium, but devoid of petiolar glands ; leaflets 5"'-G'" long, 

 2"'-3"' broad ; corolla 5-3-fid, 3'" long ; legume 2"-2i" long, 3'" broad above, tapering below 

 into a 6'" long stalk. — Hab. Jamaica !, Sw., rare on mountain rocks of the northern districts. 



Sect. 3. Caulanthon.- — Flowers sessile: heads fascicled, lateral. Corolla striated-dentate. 

 Stamens 20, connected into a slender, exserted tube. Legume flat-compressed, not elas- 

 tically, and tardily dehiscent. — Leaflets large. 



248. C. latifolia, Gr. Unarmed, glabrous; pinna \-jugal: leaflets distant, 2j-l \- 

 jugal, elliptical, pointed, oblique at the acute base, inferior alternate or solitary ; flower- 

 heads sessile or shortly peduncled on the branches of the foregoing year ; corolla tubular, 

 much exceeding the minute calyx ; staminal tube long-exserted ; legume slightly curved, 

 linear-oblong, rounded at the base, repand on the slightly thickened margin : valves cori- 

 aceous, glabrous. — Br. Jam. t. 22. /. 3. Plum. Ed. Burm. /. 9. — Mimosa,/,. Inga, W. Pithe- 

 colobium, Benth. ! — This is P. Browne's Zygia, erroneously referred by De Candolle to au 

 African plant : but Caulanthon might as well be regarded as a distinct genus from the peculiar 

 dehiscence of its legume. — A tree, 25' high ; leaflets 5"-2" long : an orbicular (or obsolete) 

 gland between the upper pair ; flowers crimson or rosy ; corolla 4'" long ; stamens about 

 1 " long, connected to the middle; legume 5"-4" long, 10'"- 8'" broad. — Hab. Jamaica!, 

 Wilt., March, on the banks of the Wagwater, S. Andrews ; S. Vincent !, Guild. ; Trinidad !, 

 Cr., at Caroni. 



Sect. 4. Saman. — Flowers pedicellate. Calyx tomentose, not striate. Corolla 5-dentate. 

 Stamens connected into an included tube. Legume filled with pulp. — Leaflets broad : 

 petiole glanduliferous. 



249. C. Saman, Gr. Unarmed; branchlets velvety-pubescent; pinna 4>{-2-&)-jugal, 

 leaflets 7-2(-l)-jugal, obliquely obovate, or obovate-oblong, blunt, shining-glabrous above, 

 pubescent beneath : petiole bearing glands at the base and between the piuuaj ; flower-clus- 

 ters long-peduncled ; calyx shortly pedicellate, tomentose, subventricose, a little exceeding 

 half the pubescent corolla ; stamens 20, shortly connected ; legume straight (or curved), 

 linear, sqbsessile : valves coriaceous, glabrous : thickened margins pubescent. — Jacq. Fragm. 

 t. 9. — Mimosa, Jacq. Inga, W Pithecolobium, Benth. C. tubulosa, Benth. ! — A lofty tree ; 

 leaflets 3"'-8"', peduncles 5"-2", pedicles 2"'-l'" long ; corolla yellowish, 6"' long , sta- 

 mens light-crimson, nearly 2" long ; legume 8"-4" long, 8"'-5'" broad, pulpy within : 

 valves flat.— Hab. Naturalized in Jamaica !, Al., common in salt ponds, (" the seeds for- 

 merly having been brought over from the continent by cattle;") S. Lucia! ; [Nicaragua!, 

 Venezuela !, Brazil !]. 



88. ENTEROLOBIUM, Mart. 



Flower* of Calliandra. Legume broad, circiuate, with the insertion in the middle of the 



