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Mimosa. POLYANDRIA MONOGYNIA. 547 
pairs, leaflets from six to ten pairs, oblong, a concave 
gland on the base of the petiole. Panicle axillary, com- 
pound. Spikelets globular: | Stamens monadelphous. 
Legumes linear, thin, from six to eight seeded. 
A large, tall, most stately and excellent timber tree, a 
native of the interior parts of Bengal. In the Botanic 
garden at Calcutta it blossoms at the close of the rains, 
and the seed ripens during the dry season. 
_ Trunk of trees sixteen or seventeen years old, from 
twenty-five to thirty feet to the branches, and from four 
te five feet in circumference, four feet about the ground. 
Bark in the above trees still smooth; but in old trees it 
is cracked in various directions, and of a dark ash co- 
lour. Branches spreading toa great extent ; young shoots _ 
flexuose and smooth, the whole height of the just men- 
tioned young trees is from fifty to seventy feet. 
Leaves bipinnate, from one to three feet long ; pinne 
from three to six pairs; four is the most common. Leaflets 
from six to ten pairs, subsessile, opposite, oblong, emargi- 
nate, smooth on both sides, from one to two inches long. 
Petioles with a ridge on the upper side, and one large, 
oblong, concave, brown glang near the base of the com- 
mon one, and generally one between or rather below the 
last one, two, or three pairs of leaflets. Racemes or pani- 
cles axillary, generally compound, being composed of 
several diverging, pedicelled, globular heads of white 
corollets. Calyx subcylindric, five-toothed. Corel funnel- 
shaped, five-cleft, twice the length of the calyx. Sta- 
mens numerous, monadelphous, twice the length of the 
corol. Germ oblong. Style rather longer than the sta- 
mens. Stigma minute. Legume linear, pointed, smooth, 
thin (leafy) six inches long and scarcely one broad. Seeds 
from six to coll ) 
10. M. Kalkora. R. ae, 
Arboreous. Leaves bipinnate ; pinne from sini rs six 
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