Mimosa. POLYANDRIA MONOGYNIA. 559 
This I have.met with in Bengal, in the state of a small 
tree, but it appears as if it would be large if permitted to 
remain, Flowering time the beginning of the cold season; 
young shoots downy. 
Thorns stipulary, straight, divaricate, about an ich 
long, very strong and sharp, when young downy. Leaves 
bipinnate;.pinne ten or twelve pair. Leaflets from fif- 
teen to thirty pairs, very minute, downy. Petioles com- 
mon and partial, downy, with an umbilicated gland or two 
between the last pair or two of pinnz, and an oblong 
one below the lower pair. Spikes axillary, globular, 
white, peduncled, one, rarely two, together, small, rather 
offensive. Peduncles pretty long, and bracted at the 
middie,. Legume linear, compressed, falcate ; from six 
to eight-seeded. agay. 
SECT. IV. Thorny. Spikes cylindric. 
31. M. dumosa. R. 
. Shrubby, very‘ramous,. Thorns stipulary, enka 
recurved; pinne from two to four pairs ; leaflets. four or 
five pairs, oval, minute, . 
A small, very bushy tree, or large shrub of uncommon 
beattl, a native ofthe country immediately west of Delhi; 
its leaves are minute, and of a greyish colour. 
- 32..M. datronum. Linn. Suppl. 4. 38. 
Subarboreous. Thorns stipulary, united at the a 
often dreadfully large. Leaves bipinnate, pinne four 
pair; leaflets about ten pair. Spikes axillary, pedun- 
cled, subcylindric; corollets polyandrous. Legume thin, 
broad-falcate, three or four-seeded. 
‘Teling. Pukee-tooma. ; 
- Acacia latronum. Willd. 4.1077. | - 
A native of the coast of Coromandel, where, it aoe, 
soms about the beginning of the hot season. Jt.is asmall, 
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