. Mimosa. POLYANDRIA MONOGYNIA, 551 
plants remarkably large, viz. one inch and a half long 
and one broad. Jnflorescence terminal, panicled, and in 
the exterior axills a single, long-peduncled raceme, all 
composed of long-pedicelled globular heads of white 
corollets, the whole downy. Calyx and corol as in the 
- genus, and both villous. Filaments from twelve to fifteen, 
very long, united toward the base into a tube which 
is inserted into the bottom of the tube of the corol. Germ 
pedicelled. Style as long as the stamina. Legumes linear- 
lanceolar, thin, straight-margined, and smooth, from three 
to four inches long and rather under one inch in breadth, 
from ten to twenty-seeded. Seeds oval, much flattened, 
smooth, of a greyish olive-colour. 
18. M. pedunculata, R. 
Arboreous. Leaves bipinnate, pinne from twenty to 
forty pair, sub-alternate ; leaflets from sixty toa hundred 
pair, a pair of umblicated glands on the base of the 
petiole, and one between-each of the last, from four to 
eight pair. Spikes subclavate, corollets monodelphous, 
decandrous. 
An elegant tall large tree, a native of the Islands to 
the eastward of the Bay of Bengal, where it blossoms in 
May, and the seed ripens in December. The Malays 
are said to be fond of the seeds, which taste like garlic, 
and of the meally matter which surrounds them, as in 
M. biglobosa, to which it isin many respects nearly allied. 
19. M. biglobosa. Jacq. Amer. 267. t. 179. f. 87. 
Arboreous. Leaves bipinnate; pinne from ten to thirty 
pair ; leaflets from twenty to thirty pair, linear, an um- 
blicated gland on the petiole below the lower pair of the 
-pinne, and one between each of the last three or five 
pair. Panicles terminal. Spikes few, long-peduncled, 
clavate ; corollets decandrous, monodelphous, Legumes 
linear, many-seeded, in a mealy pulp. cc Tin ee 
