550 POLYANDRIA MONOGYNIA. Mimosa. 



Young shoots dark brown and scarcely villous. Leaves 

 bipinnate, from six to eight inches long, of a bright green 

 colour. PinncB from ten to fifteen pair. Leaflets from thirty 

 to forty pair, minute, obliquely-linear, smooth. Petioles 

 common and partial, downy. Panicles terminal and 

 axillary, villous, composed of globular heads of minute 

 greenish-yellow corollets. Bractes subulate, villous. 

 Calyx and Corol as in the genus, both villous. Filaments 

 from ten to twenty, monodelphous. Germ long-pedicelled. 

 Legumes thin, leafy, smooth, long, broad, obtuse-point- 

 ed, from three to six-seeded, from six to eight inches long 

 and rather above one broad. Seed oval, flat, smooth, 

 light brown. 



With the bark of this tree the mountaineers make an 

 intoxicating liquor which they drink as we do beer; on 

 the Coast of Coromandel the natives distil an ardent spi- 

 rit from a fermented mixture of the bark of Mimosa 

 leiicophlea, coarse sugar, and palra-wine. 



17. M. Smithiana. R- 



Arboreous, ieaigs bipinnate ; pinnce from twelve to tif- 

 teen pair, leaflets thirty pair, semi-lanceolate. Panicles 

 terminal; coroZ/e^5 monodelphous. Legumes thin, linear, 

 from ten to twelve-seeded. 



Swris, the vernacular name in Silhet, where it is indi- 

 genous, and grows to be a very large tree. Flowering 

 time May, the seed ripens in December. 



Young shoots somewhat angular, a little villous, and 

 spotted with light grey dots. Leaves alternate, bipin- 

 nate, about a foot long, greenish. Pinnce from twelve to 

 eighteen pair. Leaflets numerous, from twenty to forty 

 pair, semi-lanceolate, scarcely half an inch long, and 

 about one- fourth of that in breadth. Petioles common and 

 partial, villous. Glands one near the base of the common 

 petiole, and one between each of the last two or three 

 pairs of pinnae. Stipules semicordate, in young luxuriant 



