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564 POLYANDRIA MONOGYNIA. Mimosa, 
ing time the hot and rainy seasons. . The seed) ripens 
after the rains. 
SECT. VI. Prickly. Spikes globular. 
- 43. M. pudica. Willd. 4. 10. 31. i 
Perennial, diffuse, aculeate. Leaves digitate, pinnate; 
_pinne about four; leaflets many; corollets Poutanen: 
Beng. Lajuk. et 
Native place uncertain, but common in gardens trough 
out India. 
44. M. mutabilis. R 
Shrubby, ‘sialon armed with remote nme ptic- 
kles., Leaves bipinnate ; pinne four pair; leaflets from four 
toeight pairs. Spikes panicled, round; corollets octandrous. 
Legume curved, three jointed, with a prickly margin. — 
A native of the banks of the Ganges near Benares, and 
particularly corispicuous on account of its numerous flow- — 
ers, which appear during the rains; they are of a bright 
lively purple when they first expand, but become white by 
age, the reverse of the greater part of our Indian change- 
~~ fowmen which generally acquire colour by eu # 
“4b. M. octandra. R. Corom. pl. 2. No. 200. BITSY 
Shrubby, scandent, prickles scattered. Leaves bipin- 
nate; pinne from three to six pair; leaflets eight pot. 
Spikes panicled round ; corodlets octandrous. 
Teling. Wadlay-doora; or Poota; with prickly, joined 
margins, Korinta. ae? 
- M. rubicaulis. Willd. 4. p. 1038: 
Beng. Shai-kanta. 
A native of the warmer parts of Asia, and like the st ¢ ist | 
blossoming in the rains, and the flowers changing the 
colour in the same manner ; 1 doubt if they are 
removed from each other to make distinct species 
