390 NOTES ON MIMOSEZ:. 
alone be relied on, almost every gradation may be observed, 
from the thick, nearly cylindrical indehiscent pod, filled with 
a dry cellular pulp and crowded seeds of A. Farnesiana, 
Cavenia, &c. to the broad, flat, thinly membranous pod of 
A. Jaquemontii, 
§ 1. Summibracteate. Inflorescentia capitata. Bractez 
sub capitulo ad apicem pedunculi. Legumen seepius crassum 
plus minusve farctum, rarius planum coriaceum.— Species 
priores Americane, posteriores Africanw. 
229. A. pennatula, caule petiolisque tomentoso-lanatis, 
spinis rectis, pinnis 20-50-jugis, glandulis scutellzformibus, 
foliolis 20-30-jugis confertis minimis linearibus obtusis 
junioribus pubescentibus demum glabratis, pedunculis folio 
brevioribus crassis lanatis, capitulis tomentosis, calyce corol- 
le dimidio longiore, legumine lato-lineari subincurvo crasso- 
compresso non toruloso subcarnoso juniore tomentoso adulto 
glabriusculo, seminibus dissitis, —Inga pennatula Cham. et 
Schl. Linnea, v. 593.— Mountains of Mexico, Schiede, 
G. J. Graham, Hartweg, n. 71. 
230. A. pellacantha (Vogel, Leg. Meyen, 45), caule petio- 
lisque tomentoso-pubescentibus, spinis rectis demum longis; 
simis, pinnis 10- -30-jugis, glandulis parvis scutelleformibus, 
foliolis multijugis parvis linearibus obtusis puberulis, pedun- 
culis folio brevioribus crassis tomentosis, capitulis tomentosis, 
calyce corolla parum breviore, legumine lineari crasso com- 
presso breviter velutino inter semina vix contracto, seminibus 
dissitis.—A. precedente differt spinis sepius longioribus, 
foliis laxioribus, tomento tenuiore, legumine tenuiore, 
juniore rugoso. Variat spinis nunc 2.3 lin. nunc 2 poll. 
longis, tomentosis v. demum glabris, pinnis foliolisque ma- 
joribus minoribusve, glandulis paucis v. 15-16 in petiolo 
communi nonnulisque minimis in  partialibus,—Lima, 
Dombey, Meyen, Cuming, n. 1013, Mathews, n. 437 ; Bay of 
Caraccas, Sinclair. 
A. punctata, (Humb. et Bonpl. in Willd. Spec. iv. 1084.). 
which is unknown to me, may be the above species, OT 
perhaps a variety of 4. Farnesiana. 
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