504 NOTES ON MIMOSE.;E. 
glanduliferam reducta. Stamina corolla dimidio longiora.— 
Mexican Coast from Vera Cruz to Texas. 
268. A. spadicigera (Cham. et Schl. Linnea, v. 594,) glabra, 
spinis, plerisque inflatis maximis corniformibus, pinnis 3-6- 
jugis, glandulis scutelleeformibus, foliolis 15-20-jugis oblique 
linearibus obtusis, spicis cylindricis densissime imbricatis, 
calyce inflato corolla paullo breviore.—Mimosa cornigera, 
Linn. ex parte.— Spic: pollicares v. paullo longiores pedun- 
culo basi bracteato. Flores nonnisi masculos vidi, stami- 
nibus in columnam  centralem breviter et irregulariter 
pluriseriatim connatis. — Vera-Cruz, Houstoun, Panama, 
Cuming n. 1270. 
269. A. Hindsii (sp. n.), glabra, spinis brevibus nonnullis 
maximis inflatis corniformibus, pinnis 6-15-jugis, glandulis 
parvis elevatis numerosis, foliolis 12-20-jugis oblique lineari- 
bus obtusis, spicis tenuiter Seene calyce inflato corolla 
dimidio breviore.—Spice 1-14 -pollicares. Flores vidi her- 
maphraditos, staminibus circa ovarium breviter et pluriseria- 
fim irregulariter connatis, exterioribus demum usque ad 
basin liberis. A precedente spicis tenuibus facile distin- 
guitur.— Manzanilla Bay, Mexico, Hinds.—In the three 
preceding species, as well as in A. cochliacantha, planifrons, 
and latronum, and perhaps some others, the spinescent 
stipules often attain an enormous size, and are swelled out 
so as to assume the appearance of a pair of horns, and on 
this account, they have most of them been included in one 
species, under the name of A. cornigera, but it is now ascer- 
tained that these swelled spines are neither constant in each 
individual, nor confined to one species, but are due to some 
accidental cause, and not improbably, to some insect ; at any 
rate, insects are generally found to have taken up their 
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270. A. KEE (sp. m), glabra, ramis flexuosis verru- 
cosis, spinis rectis subulatis, pinnis unijugis, petiolo brevi, 
glandula scutelleforme, foliolis 4-5-jugis obovali-oblongis 
obtusis mucronatis coriaceis venosis, spicis cylindricis laxis 
