39 



CLUYTIA SPINOSA. 



MIMOSA CINEREA 



40 



Flowers small, greenish-yellow, male and female mixed. 



MALE FLOWERS. 



Calyx and Corol as in the two last species. 



Nectary : the saucer-form part, as in the former, and also a cup-form 



interior part, as if sitting on the other ; it is divided to near 

 the base, into five segments, divisions narrowing towards the 

 point, extremities three-tooth'd. 



Stamen as in the former. 



FEMALE FLOWERS. 



> 



Calyx and Corol as in the male. 



Nectary bellied, surrounds entirely the germ, leaving only a small 



opening for the styles to pass, and is there five-tooth'd. 

 Germ egg'd. Styles two, two-cleft. Stigmas simple. 

 Berry globular, size of a pea, succulent, black. 

 Seeds two, as in the former. 



This species is a tree considerably larger than any of the former ; 

 it is a native of the same mountainous countries. 



The bark is a strong astringent. The wood is dark-colour 'd, 

 hard and durable ; the leaves are eaten greedily by cattle, and are 

 said to destroy worms in their bowels. 



bark : if sometimes met with in a taller state, it is very 



thinly branched. 

 Thorns single, very large, straight, strong and sharp ; they often 



bear leaves and flowers, so that their base then appears as a 



part of a branchlet. 

 Leaves alternate on young shoots, and fascicled on the old, twice- 



feather'd, 2-3 inches long. Feathers 6-12 pair, about an inch 



long. Leaflets minute, 12-20 pair. 

 Stipules awl'd. 

 Peduncle axillary, short, generally single, bowing, ending in a 



^bowing, cylindric spike of neuter and hermaphrodite coroliets. 



hermaphrodite corollets round the extremity of the spike. 



Calyx and Corol as in the genus. 



Stamens 10, distinct, inserted into the bottom of the tube of the corollet, 



Anthers oblong, and crowned with a gland, as in Adenanthera. 

 Stigma large. 



Legume linear, compress'd, smooth, about three inches long, and 



one quarter broad, generally curved. 

 Seeds 10-15. 



NEUTER COROLLETS. 





Calyx and Corol as in the hermaphrodite, but the Jilaments are 



linear, petal-like, rose-colour'd, and without anthers, as in 

 Mimosa natans. 



173. 



CLUYTIA SCANDENS 



Doonkyboora of the Telingas. 



This species is a native of forests and low barren lands. 

 The wood of it is remarkably hard, but, on account of the small- 

 ness of the tree, it is of little use. 



Trunk scarce any. Bark rust-colour'd. 



Branches long, climbing, with their extremities flower-bearing and 



pendulous. 

 Leaves alternate, short-petioled, two-faced, oval, intire, below 



downy, size various. 

 Stipules half-lanced, length of the petiole, 

 Flowers small, yellowish-green, axillary, crowded, sessile, or on in- 



terupted leafy, terminal, or axillary, spikes ; generally male on 



one branch, and female on another. 



MALE FLOWERS 



exactly as in Cluytia patula, except that here the petals are 

 notched at their extremities. 



FEMALE FLOWERS. 



Calyx and Corol as in the male. 



Nectary double, as in Cluytia spinosa, and in every respect the same. 



Germ above, egg'd, hid in the inner nectary. Styles two, two-cleft. 



Stigmas simple. 

 Berry oblong, juicy, smooth, size of a large French bean, and when 



ripe it is of a rusty-black colour. 

 Seeds two. 



A large woody climbing species, common on ban! 

 watercourses ; flowers in November and December. 



174. 



MIMOSA CINEREA. 



Linn. spec, plant. 1505 



Yeltoor of the Telingas. 



In general, a low, irregular, rigid, ugly shrub, with a white 



175. MIMOSA CATECHU. 



Linn, suppl. 439. 



Podael-Maun of the Telingas 



Trunk in general ill-shaped, covered with rusty-colour'd, crack'd 

 Bark, which is particularly red within ; remarkably adstringent, 



and somewhat bitter. 

 Branches spread irregularly. 

 Thorns stipulary, small, most slightly recurved. 

 Leaves alternate, twice-feather'd, 6-12 inches long. 



Feath 



8-16 pair, opposite, about two inches long. Leaflets nu- 

 merous, often 40 pair, minute. The common petiole has 

 sometimes a few recurved prickles on it. Glands, a single 

 large targeted one on the upper side of the common petiole, 

 just below the lower pair of feathers, and one or two (not 

 targeted) between the last pair or two. 



Stipules awl'd, falling. 



Peduncles axillary, 2-4, short, each supporting a single cylindric 



spike of yellow corollets. 



Filaments numerous, united into one body, just at the base. 



Legume straight, smooth, pointed; 3-4 inches long, and less than 



one broad. 

 Seeds 5-6. 



- 



A large tree, chiefly a native of the mountainous parts of the coast. 



The 



b 



have no idea of extracting from it, or any other, the extract called 



j 



M 



