Mimosa. polyandria monoqvnia. 551 



plants remarkably large, viz. one inch and a half long 

 and one broad. Inflorescence terminal, panicled, and in 

 the exterior axills a single, lon<j-peduncled raceme, all 

 composed of long-pedicelled globular heads of white 

 coroUets, the whole downy. Calyx and corol as in the 

 genus, and both villous. Filaments i'rom twelve to fifteen, 

 very long, united toward the base into a tube which 

 is inserted into the bottom of the tube of the corol. Germ 

 pedicelled. Style as long as the stamina. Legumes linear- 

 lanceolar, thin, straight-margined, and smooth, from three 

 to four inches long and rather under one inch in breadth, 

 from ten to twenty-seeded. Seeds oval, much flattened, 

 smooth, of a greyish olive-colour. 



18. M. pedunculata. R. 



Arboreous. Leaves bipinnate, pinna from twenty to 

 forty pair, sub-alternate ; leaflets from sixty to a hundred 

 pair, a pair of umblicated glands on the base of the 

 petiole, and one between each of the last, from four to 

 eight pair. Spikes subclavate, corollets monodelphous, 

 decandrous. 



An elegant tall large tree, a native of the Islands to 

 the eastward of the Bay of Bengal, where it blossoms in 

 May, and the seed ripens in December. The Malays 

 are said to be fond of the seeds, which taste like garlic, 

 and of the meally matter which surrounds them, as in 

 M. biglobosa, to which it is in many respects nearly allied. 



19. M. biglobosa: Jacq. Amer. 267. t. 179. f. 87. 

 Arboreous. Leaves bipinnate ; pinnce from ten to thirty 



pair ; leaflets from twenty to thirty pair, linear, an um- 

 blicated gland on the petiole below the lower pair of the 

 pinnae, and one between each of the last three or five 

 pair. Panicles terminal. Spikes few, long-peduncled, 

 clavate; corollets decandrous, monodelphous. Legumes 

 linear, many-seeded, in a mealy pulp. 



