348 BENTHAM ON MIMOSE^E. 



v£o Algarobiarum. Foliola 8 — 10 lin. longa, rarius poUicaiia. 

 — i^^thiopia, Kotschy, n. 381. 



4. P.? ohlojiga {sp. n.), ramulis peliolisque minute tomen- 

 tellis, pinnis plerisque 2-jugis, foliolis 6 — 10-jugis subdistan- 

 tibus elliptico-oblongis niembranaceis supra ghibris subtus 

 minute pubescentibus, spicis cylindricis breviter peduncu- 

 latis — Habitu P. lanceolatce affinis. Foliola 7 — 9 lin. longa. 

 Spicae sesquipollicares. Flores in utraque specie omnino 

 Algarobiarum exceptis petalis intus glabris. Legumen eras- 

 sum dicitur et oblongum, ipse non vidi. — Gombo country 

 and Cayor in tropical Africa. Heudelot, n. 14. 



Sect. III. Algarobia, Z)C. Petala apice intus lanata. Ova- 

 rium villosum. Legumen elongotum, scepius/alcatum, planum, 

 convexum, v. detnwn subteres. — Species Americanae, spinis 



' axillaribus solitariis geminisve armatae v, inermes. 



* Elat.e. Arbores v. frutices pluripedales foliates. Glan- 

 dula antherarum distincta. 

 The species of this section, all of them furnishing the 

 sweetish succulent pod called Algarobo, and more or less 

 eatable (for horses or Indians), are very variable, and all 

 (excepting perhaps the P. Litnensis,) run so much one into 

 the other, that they might possibly be mere varieties of one 

 species. JNIy materials do not however admit of my form- 

 ing any decided opinion, as there are several of the described 

 forms which 1 have not seen. 



5. P. glandulosa (Torr. ! in Ann. Lye. N. York, v. ii. p. 

 192. t. 2.), ramulis foliisque glabris, spinis axillaribus soli- 

 tariis geminisve validis rectis, pinnis 1-rarius 2-jugis, foliolis 

 6_15-jugis distantibus oblongo-linearibus subfalcatis subco- 

 riaceis, spicis elongatis breviter pedunculatis, legumine crassi- 

 usculo.— Foliola pleraque 6—8 lin. longa, 1— H !»"• I'^^^a, 

 nonnulla interduni lata fere obovata. — Algarobia glandulosa, 

 Torr. et Gr. Fl. N. Amer. v. i. p. 399.— Canadian river, 

 Dr James; Texas, Drummond, 2d coll. n. 86; 3d. coll. n. 

 160; Berlandier, n. 1445, 1588. 



6. V.jidiforn (DC. Prodr. v. ii. p. 447), from .Jamaica, 



