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ROYAL BOTANIC GARDENS, KEW. 
BULLETIN 
OF 
MISCELLANEOUS INFORMATION, 
No. 1] [1920 
I.—THE INDIAN SPECIES OF MIMOSA. 
J. S. GaMsBre. 
In the ‘ Flora of British India’ only three species of Mimos 
are recognized (vol. ii. p. 291). The Farsr of these is the 
introduced M. pudica, Linn.,* ae : Sensitive Plant,’ now so well 
while it has been admitted to a place in several 
Floras, it is only in Dr. Cooke’s ‘ Flora of Bombay ’ 
that the curious stiff pectinate bracteoles are 
mentione 
The Sxconp species is Af. rubicaulis, Lamk., 
which is given as found throughout practically the 
whole of India under a: level of 5000 ft., and in 
which are included MM. octandra, Rox 
mutabilis, Roxb., and JZ. Rotileri, Spreng., as well 
as the undescribed I. spinosisiliqua, Rottler. I 
have been permitted to examine carefully the whole 
of the collections in the Herbaria of Kew, Edin- 
. . rubr de r 
* oe was described by Lamarck (Encyc. Meth. Bot. 
i. 20) in 1783 from specimens received by 
him from M. ” Senne very likely from Pondicherry or its 
ii oarhood: I have not seen the specimens, but M. Gagnepain 
* The sketches which accompany this give what Be consider to be the 
average form of the leaflets of the 7 species. They have been taken from 
est ones usually 
differ a lit They have also 
been selected so as to show, as nearly as possible, the a shape. 
(742.) Wt. 158829. 1,125. 2/20. J.T.&8., Ltd. G14, Seb. 18. 
