546 POLYANDRIA MONOGYNIA. MimOSa. 



leaflets. Panicles axillary, crowded ; divisions umbelled 

 even to the globular heads of coroUets. Calyx five- 

 toothed. Carol tubular, four times longer than the calyx j 

 mouth five parted. Filaments many, twice the length of the 

 corol, united toward the base, and inserted on the bottom 

 of the tube of the corol. Anthers oval, incumbent. Germ 

 pedicelled, lanceolar. Stijle the length of the stamina. 

 Legume entire, not articulate, contracted between the 

 seeds, spirally twisted into one or more circles, smooth 

 and brown on the outside, orange on the inside. Seeds 

 from six to eight, remote, of the size of a kidney- bean, 

 smooth, deep black. 



7. M. trapezifolia. R. 



Leaves bipinnate ; pinnce from three to four pairs ; leaf- 

 lets from four to seven pairs, trapeziforin, downy under- 

 neath. Panicles terminal, ultimate divisions three ; com- 

 posed of small umbellets of spherical heads of monadel- 

 phous corollets. 



A native of the Molucca Islands ; it is the only spe- 

 cies 1 know, that bears its flowers in umbellets. 



8. M. odoratissima. R. Carom, pi. 2. No. 20. 



Leaves bipinnate ; pinnce from three to four pairs ; leaf 

 lets ten pairs; panicle terminal; spikes round; coroUets 

 monadelphous. Legumes thin, linear. 



Acacia odoratissima. Willd. 4. p. 1063. 



Teling. Shindifga. 



Tarn. Solomanim. 



A native of Coromandel. It flowers during the hot sea- 

 son, the tree is large and handsome, the timber particu- 

 larly hard and strong. Flowers with a gland consider- 

 ably above the base of the petiole. 



9. M. elata. Roxb. 



Arboreous. Leaves bipinnate ; pinnm, from three to five 



