i63 HORTUS JAMAICENSIS. jtssmvE 



feeds, and creeps by very delicate stalks along the ground; but these seldom exceed 

 three or four inches long. It is very sensitive, and contracts its leaves on the slightest 

 touch, or ever, sudden puff of wind. Sioanerelates that a puffof breath makes an im- 

 pression on it, and that he wrote his name oa a bed of it with the point of a stick, aiwl 

 ft remained visible for seme time. 



2. CWEEAdA. ASP-COI.OfRED 



Frutiofsa spinis aduneis undique armaia ; eortice cinercj. foliis minu- 

 , its pi?niatis, spicis globosis. Browne, p. 252. M. 5. 



"Prickly, leaves conjugate pinnate, pinnas equal, prickles curved inwards. 

 Thefmgrigo or-thorny mimosa is a prickly shrub, frequent in most of the sugar co- 

 lonies, especially in Antigua, where the leaves are -frequently used, mixed with corn, 

 for their riding horses, and it is thought to free them from hots and worms. It grows 

 in a tufted form, and seldom rises above five or six feet from the ground, though it 

 spreads a great deal more in its . growth. Browne. 



.3. PDHCTftTA. SPOTTED. 



Frutcscens media inermis, siliquis compressis, Jclcaii; tt wnhcllatis, 

 pediincula lenglssimo. Browne, p. 253, M. 8. 

 Unarmed, leaves lipinnate, spil.es erect, flowers ten-stamened,. lower ones 

 castrated. 



This rises with .upright branching rtalks six or sever, feet higti; wood;.- towards the 

 root, having callous dots irregularly disposed on it. The leaves are four .haired, with 

 a depressed gland between the first pair ; leaflets twenty-paired ; peduncles with two, 

 alternate,- kal i- cords te,bracte:: ; spikes oblong ; all the ilorots ten -statu en ed ;.the lower 

 ones male and castrated ; corolla five-petaled. Browne calls it the larger smooth sen- 

 sitive, and says that it has .been introduced into Jamaica 



4. Pr.RNAM-BI.'i ANA. PEWKAWBTTCO. 



Sitrba mimosa non spinosa, *eu spuria de "PerwmibtiCC. "Sloane, v. 2. 

 p. iS. 



Unarmed, leaves bipinnate, spikes drooping, five stamened, lower ones cas- 

 trated, stem decumbent. 

 From a straight woody root proceed several branches nine inches long. Leaves com- 

 posed of three or four pinnas. The flowers .are globose, made up of many long white 

 filaments, to; mi-ig altyrether a round head ; pods flat, an i:ich long, and a quarter of 

 an inch broad, with a round protuberance at each seed. It does not feel the touch as 

 -other mimosas, but on holding it for some time its leaver contract. It grows on gravelly 

 groundsill the. savanna, near St. Jago de la Vega, and many other. places. loaae. 



5. COMOSA. BRANCiTY. 



Unarmed, arboreous, leaves bi-pinnat > trijtigous, pmnas {nine or ten-paircJ^ 

 oval r.etu:e at the base, tiowers patiicled, monodtlphous. &i\ 



6. MAXGFNSIS. . MANGO. 



SGpines solitary, short; leaves bi-pinnatc, generally nine-paired ; spikes glo- 

 <.bular ; axillary, solitary. 



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