»554- POLYANDRIA MONOGYNIA. Mimosa. 
plena, but the East Indian plant wants the bractes on the 
middle of the peduncles. The flowers are either neuter or 
hermaphrodite, and the latter have always ten stamens, 
Plukenet’s 4th figure of plate 307 is certainly intended 
for this plan. | 
22. M. adenanthera. R. 
Terminal, erect, smooth. Leaves bipinnate; pinne three 
pair; leaflets from twenty to thirty pair with coloured 
margins. Stipules obliquely cordate, acute. Peduneles 
axillary, bracted; spikes ovate, nodding, inferior corollets — 
double, neuter ; the superior ones, decandrous; anthers 
crowned with a gland, Legumes sub-falcate, many- 
seeded. tO 
Native place uncertain, Flowering time in Bengal the 
rainy season. It is a pretty slender, somewhat flexuous, 
sub-erect, shrubby plant. It is nearly allied to Willd- 
enow’s Desmanthus punctatus ; if the anthers havea gland 
on the apex, as in Adenanthera, 1 think we may — 
— are the same. : 
23. M. scandens. R. 
‘Scandent. Leaves bipinnate, ending in a teal 
 pime two pair; leaflets from three to four - —_ 
emarginate, glossy. Spikes panicled, lateral ; 
decandrous. Legume jointed, with an entire margin 
Mimo Entada. Willd. 4.1041. 
Acacia seandens. Willd. 4. 1057. 
Perim-kaku-valli, Rheed. Mal. 8. t; 32. 33. ane a. 
Entada. Rheed. Mal. 9. t. 77. 
Beng. Gilla. pease 
An immense scandent plant of many years s durations 
the oldest in the Botanic garden has beem there fiftee 
years, and has not yet blossomed. Flowering time ci 
forests of Silhet where it is common, marine" e : 
the seed ripens toward the close of the year ot a 
