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centibus, spicis brevibus plerisque geminis in racemo longo 

 paniculffiformi densis, — Mimosa Entada, Linn., according to 

 the specimen in his herbarium, though in his Species Plan- 

 tarum he appears to have mixed it up with the Yj.scandens. — 

 West Indian islands, and probably also the coast of Guiana. 

 I do not see any character to distinguish from it the Mitaosa 

 chiliantha, G. F. W. Meyer, or Entada chiliantha, DC. 



3. E, africana, Guillem. et Perr. Fl. Seneg. v. i. p. 233 



Unknown to me. 



4. 'E. polyphyllay (Benth. in Hook. Journ. Bot. ii. 133,) 

 inermis, foliis non cirrhiferis ? pinnis 4 — 8-jugis, foliolis 

 10 — 20-jugis oblongis obtusis emarginatisve subtus pubescen- 

 tibus, spicis brevibus plerisque geminis in racemo longo pani- 

 culoeformi densis. — North Brazil, Poeppig, Eangsdorff; Bri- 

 tish Guiana, Schorahurgh. 



5. E. ? natalensis, ramulis petiolisque tomentellis bine inde 

 uncinato-aculeatis, pinnis 5 — T-jugis, foliolis 9 — l5-jugis 

 oblique oblongis obtusis glabris puberulisve, petiolo hinc 

 inde glandulifero spicis axillaribus 2--3-nis in paniculani 

 foliatam dispositis — Mimosa spicata, E. Mey. Comm. PL 

 Afr. Austr. — Port Natal, and banks of the Basche river in S. 

 Africa, Drege. — The flowers and anthers are entirely those 

 of an Entada^ not of a Mimosa. I have not seen the ripe 

 fruit, but, in specimens far advanced, the valves cohere so 

 close together, that I cannot imagine them to open as in 

 Mimosa, although I see no signs of the endocarp detaching 

 from the exocarp as in Entada. 



The plant I published, vol. ii., p. 133 of this Journal, as 

 Entada? mgriadenia, differs from the genus in its pentan- 

 drous flowers, without the stipitate gland to the anther. On 

 the other hand, the corolla and the oblong anther remove it 

 from Mimosa. It probably forms a distinct genus allied to 

 some groups o^ 3Iiinosa, but not having seen the fruit, even 

 young, it is impossible to characterize it. 



V. Plathymenia, Benth. 

 Flos Entada:, sessilis. Legumen stipitatum lato-lineare? 



