Mimosa. polyandria monogynia. 561 



evidently a Mimosa, and most likely Loureior's/er«, It 

 is a tree of very slow growth, and the wood particularly 

 hard. Trees in this garden about twenty-five years old 

 are not above twenty-five feet higli, with slender, crooked, 

 poor-looking trunks. 



34. M. cinerea. R. Corom. pi. 9. N. 174. 

 Subarboreous. Thorns solitary ; leaves bipinnate ; 



pinnce from eight to nine pair ; leaflets fifteen pairs. Spikes 

 axillary, subcylindric ; corollets decandrous, the lower, 

 ones sterile. 



Desmanthus cinereous. Willd. 4. p. 1048. 



Teling. or Yellow. 



Tam. Warfataro. 



A native of Coromandel. The spikes of this plant are 

 large, droop much, and are particularly elegant. 



SECT. V. Prickly. Spikes cylindrid ' 



35. M. obovata. R. 



Arboreous, armed with stipulary, recurved prickles. 

 Leaves bipinnate ; pinnce about three pairs ; leaflets about 

 four pairs, obovate. Spikes cylindric, axillary. Legumes 

 linear, oblong, leafy. 



A native of Rohilcund, where it blossoms in March. 



36. M. ferruginea. R. 



Arboreous. Prickles sitpulary. Leaves bipinnate ; pinnce 

 from four to six pairs ; leaflets from ten to twenty pairs. 

 Spikes axillary, cylindric ; corollets raonadelphous. Le- 

 gumes leafy, from five to six-seeded. 



Teling. Woanee. 



This species I cannot well reduce to any of those 

 mentioned in the works of Linnaeus. It is a native of 

 the mountainous paris of the country, where it grows 

 to be a pretty large tree. Bark deeply cracked, of a 

 dark, rusty colour, and strongly astringent. 



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