550 POLYANDRIA MONOGYNIA. Mimosa. 
Young shoots dark brown and scarcely villous. Leaves 
bipinnate, from six to eight inches long, of a bright green 
colour. Pinne from ten to fifteen pair. Leaflets from thirty 
to forty pair, minute, obliquely-linear, smooth. Petioles 
common and partial, downy. Panicles terminal and 
_ axillary, villous, composed of globular heads of minute 
greenish-yellow corollets. Bracies subulate, villous, © 
‘Calyx and Corol as in the genus, both villous. Filaments 
from ten to twenty, monodelphous. Germ long-pedicelled. 
Legumes thin, leafy, smooth, long, broad, obtuse-point- 
ed, from three to six-seeded, from six to eight inches long 
and rather above one broad. | Seed oval, flat, smooth, 
light brown. 
With the bark of this tree the mountaineers make an 
intoxicating liquor which they drink as we do beer; 0D 
the Coast of Coromandel the natives distil an ardent spi- 
rit from a fermented mixture of the bark of Mimosa 
leucophiea, coarse sugar, and palm-wine, 
17. M. Smithiana. R 
Arboreous. Leaves baneaciies pinne from twelve to fit 
teen pair, leaflets thirty pair, semi-lanceolate. — Panicles 
terminal; corollets monodelphous. Legumes thin, sats 
from ten to twelve-seeded. 
Suris, the vernacular name in Silhet, where it age 
genous, and grows to be a very large tree. naan 
time May, the seed ripens in December. x 
Young shoots somewhat angular, a little villous, and 
spotted with light grey dots. Leaves alternate, bipin- 
nate, about a foot long, greenish. Pinne fram twelve es 
eighteen pair. Leaflets numerous, from twenty te forty 
‘pair, semi-lanceolate, scarcely half an inch long, # 
about one-fourth of that in breadth. Petioles common 
partial, villous. Glands one near the base of the “common 2g 
petiole, and one between each of the last two oe three : 
pairs of pinnee. Stipules semicordate, in er : 
