268 LEGUMINOSJE. ‘Mimosa. 
ovate, emarginate: spikes solitary or in pairs, axillary, usually on a former 
year’s shoots from which the leaves have fallen, sometimes on the young 
shoots: petals connected at the base: stamens 10: legume more or less 
twisted.—DC. prod. 2. p. 425; Wall.! L. n. 5294.—E. monostachya, DC. 
I. e. ; Wall.! L. n. 5293.—E. Rheedei, Spr. syst. 2. p. 325.—E. Parrana, Spr. 
l. c. (partly).—Puseetha, n. 644, Linn. fl. Zeyl.—Mimosa, n. 219, Linn. fl. 
Zeyl.—M. scandens, Linn. sp. p. 1501 (partly) ; Roxb. fl. Ind. 2. p. 554.— 
M. Entada, Linn. sp. p. 1502.—Acacia scandens, Willd. l. c. p.1057.—Rheed. 
Mal. 8. t. 32, 33, 34 ; and 9. t. 77; Rumph. Amb. 5. t. 4. Malabar. 
. When the plants are young, the spikes are frequently axillary on the young 
shoots as in Rheede's 9. t. 77 ; which has made some botanists suppose that 
there are two species in India. 
LXV. MIMOSA. Adans.; Gertn. fr. 2. t. 155. 
Flowers polygamous, bisexual and male. Petals 4—5, united into a some- 
what infundibuliform 4-5-cleft corolla. Stamens 4-15, equal to the number 
of divisions of the corolla, or twice or thrice as many, inserted into the base 
of the corolla, or on the stalk of the ovary. Legume compressed-flat, com- 
posed of 1 or more 1-seeded joints ; the sutures persistent: valves somewhat 
membranaceous. Seeds naked.—Petioles with stipules. Leaves conjugately, 
or digitately, or doubly pinnated. Flowers reddish or white, capitate. 
We pass over M. pudica, Linn. (Wall.! L. n. 5292, and Wight’s cat. n. 568), as it 
is a native of no part of India. 
827. (1) M. hamata (Willd. :) branches, petioles, and peduncles pubescent 
and armed with scattered prickles: leaves bipinnated : pinnse 4 pairs ; leaflets 
7-8 pair, minute, linear-oval, approximated, pubescent: peduncles longer 
than the leaves, bearing one head of flowers: legumes linear, 3-7-jointed, 
faleately eurved, pubescent, long-stalked ; sutures emarginate between the 
joints, and with the stalk prickly.—Willd. sp. 4. p. 1033 ; DC. prod. 2. p. 421; 
bon cat, n. 567.—M. armata, Rottl.!; Spr. syst. 2. p. 206; Wall.! L. m 
828. (2) M. rubicaulis (Lam. :) branches and petioles armed with scattered 
hooked prickles: leaves bipinnated; pinne 5 pair, with a bristle-s 
gland between each pair; leaflets 10-12 pair, oblong-linear, adpressed-pu- 
bescent: stipules subulate, at the base of the common and partial petioles ; 
the former free from, the latter cohering with the petioles : peduncles 1-head- 
ed, several together in the axils of the upper and usually abortive leaves: 
flowers octandrous : legume sessile, compressed-flat, glabrous, obscurely 
jointed ; sutures straight, prickly or sometimes unarmed.— Lam. enc. m ‘ 
p.20 ; DC. prod. 2. p. 429; Wall.! L. n. 5289; Wight! cat. n. 565—M. 
octandra, Roxb. Cor. 2. t. 200; fl. Ind. 2. p. 564.—9M. Rottleri, Spr. syst. 2- 
p. 206.— M. spinosiliqua, Rottl. ! 
LXVI. INGA. Plum.; Willd. 
Flowers polygamous, bisexual and male, Calyx 5-toothed. Petals 5 
united into a 5-cleft corolla, Stamens numerous, protruded, monadelphous 
at the base or sometimes for nearly their whole length, Legume broadly 
linear, compressed, 1-celled. Seeds covered usually with pulp, more rarely 
with a pellicle or farinaceous matter.—Shrubs or trees, usually unarmed. 
Flowers spiked or capitate, red or white, 
*829. (1) I. dulcis (Willd.:) arboreous: extreme branches pendulout 
armed with short straight stipulary thorns: leaves bigeminate (pinn®æ 
