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tained their full size, often swells out at the last so as to 

 become nearly as thick as in P. spicigera; and in some 

 dwarf species which can scarcely be generically distinguished, 

 it is quite cylindrical. 



Sect. I. A DENOPis, Z)C Petala intus glabra. Ovarium gla- 

 hrum. Legumen teres v. incrassato-difforme. — Species Asi~ 

 aticcBy acideis sparsis armatce, rarins inermes. 



1. P. spicigera (Linn. Mant. 68.), arborea v. frutescens, 

 glabra, aculeis sparsis rarius nullis, pinnis 1 — 2-jugis, foliolis 

 6 — 1 2-jugis oblongis v. lato-linearibus, spicis elongatis sub- 

 interruptis solitariis geminisve, legumine elongato subtei'eti 

 toruloso. — Adenanthera acukata, Roxb. Fl. Ind. v. ii. p. 371. 

 — Common in E. India. — Some specimens from hot dry 

 situations in S. Persia {Aucher-Eloy. n. 4370), have sharper 

 leaflets, stronger prickles, and rather larger flowers. 



2. P. Stephaniana (Kunth), frutescens, aculeis sparsis, 

 ramulis petiolisque pubescentibus, pinnis 2 — 5-jugis, foliolis 

 8 — 1 2-jugis oblongis subtus puberulis, spicis laxiusculis folio 

 longioribus, legumine ovoideo-oblongo crasso subincurvo v. 

 difFormi. — Lagonychium Stephanianum, Bieb. — DC. Prodr. 

 V. ii. p, 448. cum. syn. — Mimosa agrestis, Sieb. ! in Spr, Syst. 

 V. ii. p. 206. — Common in North Persia and Syria. Aucher 

 Eloy. n. 963, 4369, 4370. Steven^ Sieber, Booe, ^c. 



This plant has precisely the flowers of P. spicigera, and 

 the pod only differs in its short and thick proportions and 

 closer seeds : it is not contracted between them unless where 

 several seeds are abortive. 



Sect.? ir. Anonychium. Petala intus glabra. Ovarium 

 villosum. — Species Africanae inermes, habitu Algarobiis 

 affines. Legumen non satis notum, et ideo de genere dubi- 

 tandum est. 



3. P. ? lanceolata (sp. n.) ; ramulis petiolisque minute to- 

 mentellis, pinnis 1 — 2-jugis, foliolis 4 — 8-jugis, distantibus 

 oblongo-Ianceolatis crassiusculis glabris, spicis cylindricis 

 densis breviter pedunculatis. — Folia rigida et glandulte par- 



