Mimosa. polyandria monogynia. 559 



This I have met with in Bengal, in the state of a small 

 tree, but it appears as if it would be large if permitted to 

 remain. Flowering lime the beginning of the cold season; 

 young shoots downy. 



lliorns stipulary, straight, divaricate, about an inch 

 long, very strong and sharp, when young downy. Leaves 

 bipinnate ; pinnce ten or twelve pair. Leaflets from fif- 

 teen to thirty pairs, very minute, downy. Petioles com- 

 mon and partial, downy, with an umbilicated gland or two 

 between the last pair or two of pinnae, and an oblong 

 one below the lower pair. Spikes axillary, globular, 

 white, peduncled, one, rarely two, together, small, rather 

 offensive. Peduncles pretty long, and bracted at the 

 middle. Legume linear, compressed, falcate; from six 

 to eight-seeded. 



SECT. IV. Thorny. Spikes cylindric. 



31. M. dumosa, R. 



Shrubby, very ramous. Thorns stipulary, somewhat 

 recurved ; pinn^ from two to ibur pairs ; leaflets four or 

 five pairs, oval, minute. 



A small, very bushy tree, or large shrub of uncommon 

 beauty, a native of the country immediately west of Delhi; 

 its leaves are minute, and of a greyish colour. 



32. M. latronum. Linn. Suppl. 4. 38. 

 Subarboreous. Tliorns stipulary, united at the base, 



often dreadfully large. Leaves bipinnate, pinnce four 

 pair ; leaflets about ten pair. Spikes axillary, pedun- 

 cled, subcylindric ; corollets polyandrous. Legume thin, 

 broad-falcate, three or four-seeded. 



Teling. PMkee-tooma. 



Acacia latronum. Willd. 4. 1077. 



A native of the coast of Coromandel, where it blos- 

 soms about the beginning of the hot season. It is a small 



