564 POLYANDRIA MONOGYNIA. MimOSa. 



ing time the hot and rainy seasons. The seed ripens 

 after the rains. 



SECT. VI. Prickly. Spikes globular. 



43. M. pudica. Willd. 4. 10. 31. 



Perennial, diffuse, aculeate. Leaves digitate, pinnate; 

 pinnce about four ; leaflets many ; corollefs pentandrous. 



Beng. Lajuk. 



Native place uncertain, but common in gardens through- 

 out India. 



44. M. mutahilis. R. 



Shrubby, scandent, armed with remote recurved pric- 

 kles. Leaves bipinnate ; piniKB four pair ; leaflets from four 

 to eight pairs. SpjA-^s panicled, round; coro/fefs octandrous. 

 Legume curved, three jointed, with a prickly margin. 



A native of the banks of the Ganges near Benares, and 

 particularly conspicuous on account of its numerous flow- 

 ers, which appear during the rains ; they are of a bright 

 lively purple when they first expand, but become white by 

 age, the reverse of the greater part of our Indian change- 

 able flowers which generally acquire colour by age. 



45. M. octandra. R. Corom. pi. 2. No. 200. 



Shrubby, scandent, prickles scattered. Leaves bipin- 

 nate ; pinnce from three to six pair ; leaflets eight pair. 

 Spikes panicled round ; corollets octandrous. 



Teling. Wallag-doora, or Poota ; witli prickly, jointed 

 margins, Korinta. 



M. ruhicaulis. Willd. 4. p. 1038. 



Beng. Shai-kanta. 



A native of the warmer parts of Asia, and like the last 

 blossoming in the rains, and the flowers changing their 

 colour in the same manner ; 1 doubt if they are sufficiently 

 removed from each other to make distinct species. 



