Acacta. LEGUMINOSZ. 275 
pulchella, Roxb. fl. Ind. 2. p. 548 (not A. pulchella, Br.)——Malabar. 
Southern Provinces. 
We have not seen the flowers. It is so very closely allied to A. amara, 
that we almost doubt of its being a distinct species: the leaves and young 
branches are however much more glabrous, and the peduncles, so far as we 
have seen, are always solitary and in the axils of the leaves, without any ten- 
dency to form a terminal raceme. 
+ + Leaflets fewer and larger. 
850. (9) A. odoratissima (Willd.:) arboreous, unarmed: branches gla- 
brous ; leaves bipinnated ; pinnæ 3-4 pair, with a gland on the petiole and 
between the uppermost pair; leaflets 10-14 pair, narrow, oval, obtuse, ob- 
lique, glabrous, pale on the under side: panicles terminal and axillary, the 
ultimate divisions cymose or somewhat umbellate: flowers in small globose 
heads: corolla tubular, 4-cleft to the middle : stamens monadelphous: legume 
flat, broadly linear, thin, thick margined, about 10-seeded.—Willd. sp. 4. 
p. 1063 ; DC. prod. 2. p. 466 ; Spr. syst. 3. p. 139 ; Wall.! L. n. 5234 ; Wight ! 
cat. n. 598, 599.—A. lomatocarpa, DC. l. c. p. 467.—Mimosa adoratissima, 
Linn.! suppl. p. 487 ; Roxb. Cor. 2. t. 120 ; fl. Ind. 2. p. 546.—M. marginata, 
Lam. enc. meth. 1. p. 12.—Rheed. Mal. 6. t. 5; Pluk. t. 351. f. 4 1. —— Coro- 
mandel and Malabar. 
851. (10) A. procera (Willd.:) arboreous, unarmed, nearly glabrous: 
branches terete: leaves bipinnated ; pinnæ 3-5 pair, with a large gland on 
the petiole ; leaflets 6-12 pair,obliquely oval, pointed, glabrous: panicles ax- 
illary, or terminal and very large: heads of flowers globular, peduncled, ag- 
gregated: stamens numerous, monadelphous: legume thin, flat, straight, li- 
near-lanceolate, pointed, 8-12-seeded.— Willd. sp. 4. p. 1063 ; DC. prod. 2. 
3 466 ; Spr. syst. 8. p. 139.—Mimosa procera, Roxb. Cor. 2. t. 121; fl. Ind. 
. p. 548. 
852. (11) A. speciosa (Willd. :) arboreous, unarmed : young branches flexu- 
ose, glabrous: leaves bipinnated ; pinns 1-4 pair, with a large gland a little 
above the base of the petiole ; leaflets 4-9 pair, oval, obtuse or retuse, un- 
equal, glabrous, with often one or two small glands near the base of the par- 
tial petioles, and small ones between the leaflets: peduncles axillary, 1-4 to- 
er, each bearing a globular head of shortly pedicelled flowers : ealyx 
ong-tubular: petals 5, united to beyond the calyx: stamens very long, nu- 
merous, monadelphous: legume thin, flat, broadly linear, remotely 8-10- 
seeded, not opening spontaneously.— Willd. sp. 4. p. 1066; DC. prod. 2. 
P. 467 ; Spr. syst. 3. p. 139 ; Wight ! cat. n. 600.—A. Sirissa, Ham. ! in Wall.! 
L. n. 5265.—Mimosa speciosa, Jacq. coll. 1. p. 47 ; ic. rar. 1. t. 198.—M. Si- 
rissa, Rowb.! in herb. Smith! and Banks! ; fl. Ind. 2. p. 544.—M. Lebbek ?, 
„in E. I. C. mus. tab. 483.—M. flexuosa, Rottl. in Ainsl. mat. med. Hind. 
Pluk. 1:991... 1. : 
There is considerable difference of appearance between the cultivated and 
wild specimens, but in all the essential points they agree. The wild plant 
has usually been confounded with A. Lebbek, to which it is so closely allied 
that Plukenet’s figure, which is good, is always quoted for that species ; this 
Circumstance seems to have led De Candolle to suppose that A. Lebbek had 
n introduced into East India. : 
*853. (12) A. frondosa (Willd.:) shrubby, erect, unarmed: branches te- 
Tete, ene leaves vesci : inne about 6 pair, with a gland on the 
Petiole close to the lower pair; leaflets about 14 pair, lanceolate, acute, ra- 
ther distant, pubescent on the under side: peduncles axillary, solitary or in 
pairs, as long as the petiole, bearing a globular head of flowers: petals 5, li- 
near-lanceolate, distinct : stamens 10, long, distinet : legume flat, thin, linear, 
thickened on the margins, many-seeded.—Willd. sp. 4. p. 1076 ; DC. prod. 2. 
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