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vix ramoso, floribus trimeris, legumine sessili lato-lineari 

 glabro margine retrorsum aculeato. — Isle of St Thomas, 

 Ehrenberg; St Lucia, Anderso7i. 



127? M. montana {K\yni\\. Mim. t. 10.) fruticosa, ramis 

 aculeatis pnberulis, petiolis inermibus, pinnis 2 — 3-jugis, fo- 

 liolis 4 — 6-jugis elliptico-oblongis obtusis puberulis parvis, 

 capitulis axillaribus pedunculatis, legumine lineari glabro 



nuclo. — Andes of Peru, Humboldt and Bonpland Not 



having seen the plant, I have drawn up the above character 

 from Kunth's description. 



128. M, sepiaria (sp. n.), fruticosa v. arborea, ramulis 

 petiolis paniculaque pubescentibus glabratisve, aculeis paucis 

 sparsis rectiusculis validis, pinnis 4 — 8-jugis, foliolis 20 — 40- 

 jugis linearibus obliquis subnitidis glabris v. raro puberulis, 

 panicula ampla polycephala laxa, floribus tetrameris, legu- 

 mine breviter stipitato lineari glabro nitido nudo. — Species 

 in sepibus fruticosa, in sylvis arbor pulcherrima. Foliola 

 crebra, subfalcata, 3 — 4 lin. Jonga. Panicula ter quaterve 

 ramosa. Flores albi. Legumen 2 poll, longum, 3 lin. la- 

 tum, articuHs 6 — 8 quadratis. — Common in hedges all over 

 South Brazil to Rio Janeiro, Tweedie, Sello, Lord Colchester^ 

 Guillemin, Pohl, etc.; Bahia, Salzmann; Pernambuco, Gard- 

 ner, n. 979. — I feel persuaded, that so common a Brazi- 

 lian species must be already described under some other 

 name, yet I cannot find any published character to agree 

 with it. 



129. M. oligacantha (DC. Prod. ii. 429.) from St Martha. 

 Unknown to me, but apparently near M. obovata. 



** Asiaticce. 



130. M. rubicaulis (Lam. Diet. i. 20.) fruticosa, subscan- 

 dens, aculeis in caule petiolisque sparsis, ramulis foliisque 

 junioribus pubescentibus tomentosisve, pinnis 3 — lO-jugis, fo- 

 liolis 6 15-jugisobliqueoblongisv. oblongo-linearibusobtusis 



subtus V. utrinque adpresso-puberulis, pedunculis axillaribusad 

 apices ramorum racemosis, floribus tetrameris, calyce corolla 

 4 — 5-plo breviore, legumine stipitato lato, lineari faicato gla- 



