138 SCHOMBURGK’S GUIANA PLANTS. 
glabris, corollis adpresse pubescentibus.—Arbuscula. Foliola: 
pleraque 6-8 lin. longa, circa 3 lin. lata, obtusiuscula, subt 
pallida. Stipulee et bractese persistentes circa 3 lin. longa 
Inflorescentia revera racemosa terminalis, sed rachis brevis 
et bracteze cum basibus pedunculorum imbricatee ita ut pe- 
dunculi fasciculati videntur. Calyx 1 lin. longus. Corolla 
infundibuliformis fere 4 lin., limbo 14 lin. longo. Stamina 
bipollicaria basi brevissime monadelpha. Antheree hirsute» 
Pollinia in quoque loculo pauca, verosimiliter 2, sed in speci- 
mine meo jam fere omnia delapsa.—On the Rio Quitaro 
Schomburgk, n. 582. 
I propose the name of Calliandra for the genus indicated 
by De Candolle under Inga anomala as the Anneslea of Salis- 
bury, a name applied by Dr Wallich to a very different 
East Indian genus. The Calliandre may be essentially 
characterised by the stamens which are more or less monadel- 
phous, and by the pod which is straight, linear, or oblong» 
flat, with the margins much thickened, of a woody coriaceous 
OE submembranous texture, two-valved, the valves rolling. 
"baék with more or less elasticity at their maturity from 
apex to the base without twisting. The seeds are always 
attached by a very short funiculus.: The species I have seen 
have all bipinnate leaves, globose heads of flowers, a gamo 
talous corolla, campanulateor more frequently infundibuliform 
very numerous stamina, many times longer than the corolla 
and generally purple, the anther small often more or less 
hispid and each cell containing two large pollen-masses- 
The insertion of the stamens is often perigynous, and in many 
species the central flowers have no ovary, and are otherwise 
dissimilar to the outer more perfect ones in each head: 
Besides the 18 species of which the enumeration is sub- _ 
joined, it is probable that several of the Inge Samanee and of | 
the Acacie globiflore inermes of De Candolle’s Prodromus | 
may belong to Calliandra. The species known to me are:— 
1. C. dysantha; ramulis pubescentibus, pinnis 4—5 jugis 
foliolis ‘multijugis (4—6 lin. longis). falcato-oblongis. rigidis 
. coriaceis supra me pilosisve subtus pubescentibus, stipulis 
