552 POLYANDRIA MONOGYNIA. Mimosa. 
Beng. Supota, : 
A native of the forests of Silhet, and its osiditsials 
hood, where it grows to be a large tree, flowering in De-~— 
cember, and ripening the seed in April: 
Trunk straight, when full grown about two feet in dia- 
meter, or six in circumference; young shoots villous. 
Leaves scattered, bipinnate, from twelve to tweuty-four 
inches long, from ten to twenty pair; pinne opposite, 
from three to six inches long; leaflets from twenty-five 
to fifty pair, linear, lucid, half an inch long. Petioles ” 
common and partial, villous ; glands an umblicated one 
under the lower pair of pinne, and one between each of 
the last three, four, or five pair. Stipules minute, st- 
bulate. Panicles terminal, composed ofa few, alternate, 
very long peduncled, large, sub-clavate, pale yellow fra- 
grant spikes, (or flowers.) Bractes or scales of the ¢la- 
vate receptacle, solitary under each corollet, spatulate 
with the apex broad, and villous on the out-side. Calyx 
tubular, mouth cut into five unequal, roundish, villous 
segments. Corol five-parted. Filaments ten, united from 
the middle downwards. Germ linear, many-seeded. Style 
the length of the stamina. Legumes about a foot long, 
atid an inch and half broad, flat, swelled at the seeds, 
where a quantity of mealy matter is found to sw 
each seed ; surface smooth, brown*when ripe; it can 
scarcely be called jointed, except when very old. = 
from twelve to twenty, oval, smooth, dark brown. 3 
Note. About the base of the spikes on the sub-eylin~ 
drical part, the corollets are generally male-neuter. 
20. M. triquetra. Vahl. Symb. 3. 102. 
Bi-triennial, prostrate. Leaves bipinnate: pimn@- sot 
pairs; leaflets from ten to twelve pair. Peduncles” axik 
lary, solitary, bracted ; spikes round, erect ; corollets fives 
petalled, a oe a i — — we ee 
seeded. ee : an ida Dalal : 
