496 NOTES ON MIMOSE. 
similia. Pedunculi pollicares, superiores fasciculato-ace- 
mosi. Capitula densissime imbricata. Legumen fere A. 
Farnesiane sed brevius, latius.— Bahamas, Swainson. 
240. A. acuifera (sp. n.), glabra, spinis subulatis, pinnis 
unijugis, glandula stipitata, foliolis 10-12-jugis oblongis obtu- 
sissimis demum coriaceis nitidis, pedunculis folium subeequan- 
tibus, capitulis glaberrimis, legumine glaberrimo.—Spine 
tenues, 6-9-lin. longe.  Petioli communes breves, partiales 
1-14 pollicares, glandulis sub jugis ultimis foliolorum 1-2. 
Foliola adulta 4 lin. longa. Capitula iis A. Farnesiane 
minora. Flores nitidi. Legumen junius tantum vidi.— 
Bahamas, Swainson. 
241. A. erioloba (E. Mey, Comm. Pl. Afr. Austr. i. 171), 
spinis rectis, foliis glabris pallidis, pinnis trijugis, glandulis 
ad omnia paria, foliolis 8-10-jugis lineari-oblongis obtusis, 
legumine lignoso indehiscente semilunato tumido utrinque 
attenuato tomento subfurfuraceo albente intus spongioso 
farcto.—Namaqua Land, Schmeling.—I have not seen this 
species, but, from E. Meyer's account, it appears to differ 
from A. Farnesiana, chiefly by the downy pod. It may 
possibly be the same as the following. 
249. A. giraffe (Burch. Tray. ii. 240 ; an Willd?) glaber- 
rima spinis rectis, validis fuscis, pinnis 1-3-jugis, glandulis 
scutelliformibus ad paria pleraque, foliolis 8-15-jugis oblongo- 
linearibus obtusis crassiusculis, pedunculis in ramulis 
annotinis fasciculatis, legumine ovali crasso indehiscente intus 
farcto.—Dry and sandy deserts to the N. of Cape Colony, 
Burchell.—l have only seen the above in flower, it has much 
the appearance of 4. horrida, but the bracts are at the top of 
the peduncle, and the pod, according to Burchell, is very 
different. The A. giraffe of Willdenow, according to Walpers, 
(Linnea. xiii, 542), is the same as A. reticulata of Willdenow’s 
herbarium and is * 4. horride valde affinis, recedit spinis non 
pallidis sed fuscescenti-roseis, foliolellis oblongo-linearibus,” 
but this can scarcely apply to the Mimosa reticulata of 
Linneus. All these species are so incompletely described, 
that I have, for the present, left them doubtful, adopting the 
