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perfectly regular and valvate calyx and corolla, and hypo- 

 gynous corolla and stamens, may be generally divided into 

 two large tribes, the Eumimosecp, with definite stamens and 

 pollen not agglomerated, and the Acaciece, with indefinite 

 stamens and pollen collected into four or six masses in each 

 cell, each tribe containing many hundred species. To these 

 must be added about half a dozen species, forming three or four 

 anomalous genera, but little resembling each other ; but, in- 

 asmuch as they are all as it were intermediate between Ca's- 

 alinniece and Mtmosea', they may be considered as forming 

 a distinct tribe under the name of Parkiece, already given to 

 it by Wight and Arnott, who established it on the characters 

 pointed out by Brown. With this tribe I now commence 

 the enumeration of the species o^ Mimosecf, which have come 

 under my observation. I have added short specific charac- 

 ters only, reserving the detailed descriptions for my Legu- 

 minosarum Genera et Species. . 



Tribe I. Parkie.e. W. et Am. 



Calyx v. corolla sestivatione leviter imbricata. Stamina 

 definita cum corolla perigyna. 



1. FiLL^A. Guillem. et Perrot. 



Calyx turbinatus, dentibus 5, BBstivatione levissima imbri- 

 cata, mox aperta. Petala 5, calycem vix excedentia, peri- 

 gyna, gestivatione subvalvata. Stamina 10, perigyna, libera, 

 exserta, omnia fertilia. Antherse non gland uliferse. Gran- 

 ulse pollinis numerosissimae. Ovarium stipitatum, lanatum. 

 Stylus conicus, obtusus. Legumen oblongimi, compressum, 

 valvis 2 crasso-coriaceis dehiscens, intus inter semina pujpo- 

 sum — Arbor. Folia bipinnata, eglandulosa. Pinnae pauci- 

 jugse. Foliola pauca, majuscula, alterna. Flores laxe cylin- 

 draceo-spicatae, spicis paniculatis. 



Sp. unica ; F. simveolens, Guillem. et Perrot. Fl. Seneg. 

 i- 242. t. 53. — Senegambia. 



This tree, figured and described in detail in the work quoted, 

 although it has very nearly the estivation of the true Mimosece, 



