198 NOTES ON MIMOSEZ. 
inferiores szepius axillares, superiores v. fere omnes race- 
mosi, racemis ssepius paniculato-ramosis. Ovarium stipita- 
tum. Legumen lineare, circinnato-contortum, valvulis con- 
vexis intus sspe rubescentibus, dehiscentia varie tortis. 
Semina arilla carnosa semi-immersa.—Species omnes Ame- 
ricane, una tamen in hortis Asiaticis introducta. Flores 
albi v. rosei parvi. 
* Pinnis foliolisque unijugis, floribus spicatis. 
1. P. macrostachyum, glabrum v. vix minutissime puberu- 
lum, stipulis spinescentibus rectis v. rarius obsoletis, foliolis 
oblique ovato-oblongis sublanceolatisve, spicis elongatis, calyce 
5-dentato corolla pubescente vix triplo breviore.—Jnga lan- 
ceolata, Humb. et Bonpl., Kunth, Mim. t. 15 ; Mimosa macro- 
stachya, Vahl. Ecl. t. 26; Inga macrostachya, DC. Prodr. 2, 
p. 437 ; Inga ligustrina, Willd.? Spec. 4, p. 1007, (Mimosa 
ligustrina, Jacq. non Vahl); Inga hymeneefolie proxima, 
Ch, Schl. Linnea 5, p. 592.—Foliola 1-2-pollicaria. Spice 
subinterrupte, nunc vix bipollicares, nune usque ad 4-5 poll. 
longe. Bracteole lanceolate, brevissime v. interdum corol- 
las subeequantes.—Near Vera Cruz, Galeotti, n. 32523; Lin- 
den, n. 1318, Schiede and others; Manzanilla Bay, Barclay ; 
Cumana, Humboldt and Bonpland; on the Magdalena, Hart- 
wey, n. 965; Guiana? Anderson ; Cayenne, Vahl. 
2. P. hymeneefolium, ramulis petiolisque glabris, stipulis 
spinescentibus, foliolis oblique oblongis glabris, spicis densis- 
sissimis elliptico-oblongis, floribus adpresse pubescentibus, 
calyce 5-dentato corolla triplo breviore, ovario piloso.— 4n 
hymeneefolia, Humb. et Bonpl. in Willd. Spec. 4, p. 1008.— — 
Species mihi ignota. Folia sec. Kunth, 3-4-pollicaria. Spice 
1-13 poll. longee—Shady woods near Caripe, in Cumana, 
Humboldt and Bonpland. 
3. P. oblongum (sp.-n.), ramulis petiolisque glabris, stipt- — 
lis spinescentibus, foliolis oblique ovatis v. ovali-oblongis gla- — 
bris, spicis laxiuseulis cylindraceo-oblongis pedunculatis — 
floribus adpresse pubescentibus, calyce 5-dentato P 
