Mimosa LEGUMIXOS.-E 13;" 



Floicer-licadd globular, 5-6 mm. in diam. without the stamens, raany- 

 flowered, forming a terminal panicle often 3 din. 1. Calyx about ? mm. 1. 

 nla about 2'5 mm. 1. Stamens twice as many as the petals and thrice 

 as long. Pod flat, glabrous, without prickles, 4-5 cm. 1., 7-S mm. br. ; 

 valves 5-8-jointed. Used for making hedges.] 



3. M. invisa H>n-t. in Flora xx. BeibL 121 (1837) : shrub <>r 

 undershrub, with pubescent angled stem- -rveral feet !<>' 

 trailing over bushes and climbing by means of numerous recurved 

 prickles on stems and petioles ; pinna? in 5 or 6 (4-8) pairs, with 

 a bristle between the pinna-; stipels bristle-like: flower-heads 

 rosy, 1 or '2 in axils; peduncle much shorter than the petiole. - 

 Benth. in Fl. Bras. xv. >t. '2, 379, t. 97 A: Trail*. Linn. Xo/-. .,-.. 

 43(>; Urb. >S// //</.-. Ant. vi. 103. M. diplotricha IT/-/';//// /// Sauu. 

 PI. Cub. 34 (1868). Schrankia brachvcarpa Benth. in H<>l,-. 

 Journ. Bot. ii. 130 (1840); Grwl. Fl. Br. W. Ltd. 220. 

 An authentic specimen from Martins is in Herb. Mus. Brit. 



St. Cruz, 450 ft., Harris ! Fl. 9863. Cuba, Trinidad, tropical conti- 

 nental America. 



Leaves 4-11 cm. 1. ; pinnse 2-4 cm. 1. ; bristle and stipels about 2 mm. 1. ; 

 leaflets in numerous pairs, oblong, 4-5 mm. 1. ; petiole 5-6 cm. 1. Floi 

 heads globular; peduncle barely 1 cm. 1. Calyx minute, about '3 mm. 1. 

 Corolla about 2 mm. 1. Stamens twice as many as the petals, 2-2.4 thru :- 

 as long. Pod l'5-2*5 cm. 1., 5-6 mm. br., margins spiny; valves pube-- 

 cent, bristly, 4 or 5- jointed. 



[M. pigra L. Cent. PL i. 13 (1755) oc Sj>. PL ed. 2, 1507 : 

 shrub 4-8 ft. high, with long straggling hispid prickly branches : 

 pinnae in 8-15 pairs with a spine between the pinnae, and 

 generally with 2 prickles in the interval between the insertion 

 of the pairs ; flower-heads pale rosy -lilac, shortly stalked, 1 or- 2 

 in the axils of the young leaves. Sw. Obs. Bot. 392. M. asperati 

 L. Si/st. ed. 10, 1312 (1759) & Sp. PI. ed. 2, 1507 ; Ha<-f. -Lou. i. 

 305 ; DC. Leg. t. 63 ; Gri<b. loc. .-if. ; Olir. Fl. Tr<>p. Afr. 

 "> ; BentJt. in Fl. Bras. xv. j>t. 2, 381 & Trim*. Linn. Sor. a 

 437. M. pellita Hntnl. <( Bonpl. e.r Willd. fy. PL iv. 1037 : 

 Kuntli Hi UK-*. 27, /. 9. ^Eschynomene spinosa quarta i.V'- Br< i/n. 

 <'* j iiL Prim. 43, t. 19. JE. spinosa quinta Br<'i/u. 0<-nt. Prim. 44. 

 /. 20; Commi /. Amst. i. 59. t. 30. Minm-a cault* fruticoso &c. 

 Miller Ic. t. l^'l. M. frutescens spinosa etc. 7>/w.-//<- Uit. Jam. 25.",. 



-jlit\ Westmoreland, Pnrdicl Lucea, Hitclicoclc ; in wet place.-, 

 Montpelier, St. James; Meylersneld ; Harris ! Fl. Jam. Il,s07, 11,^15. 

 Tropical America, and widely spread over tropical and subtropical Africa 

 d the Mascar /ands. 



Leaves to 1*5 dm. 1. ; pinnte 2-4-5 cm. 1. ; spine 2-10 mm. 1. ; leaflet- 

 in many pairs (generally more than 30), linear, puoe-ceiit beneath, sensi- 

 tive to touch, 5-8 mm. 1. (the petiole is not sensitive), 

 globular, 9 or 10 mm. in diam. without the stamens ; stalk as long as the 

 head, or 2-3 times longer. C'u'i/.r about 2 mm. 1., with a ciliate-fringed 

 margin. Corolla 4-cleft, hispidulous at and near the upper margin, 4 

 mm. 1. Stamens twice a- many as petals, 1^-2 times us loug. Pods 



