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of the ‘Museum d’Histoire Naturelle’ in Paris tells me that 
there are two sheets of it in their Herbarium, one of 
them bearing Lamarck’s autograph, and that the 
leaves and pod agree with those of Indian specimens 
I sent him for comparison, a comparison which he 
most seraetl made. The description says that the 
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Wight — the excellent fioure published: in 
Hooker’s Icones t. 156. The plant occurs only in 
north of the Godavari. = is represented in aie 
2. M.rubi- and D. (Herb. Wight) ad the ecidenis in “the 
caulis. Edinburgh Herbarium show that it is the 
Mimosa Intsia described by Roxburgh in Fl. Ind. ii. 565. Mr. 
W. G. Craib, in his paper on the climbing. Acacias entitled 
‘Mimosa caesia and M. Intsia’ (Kew Bull. 1915, p. 407) showed 
that Mimosa Intsia, Linn. Sp. Pl. 522 instead of being a climbing 
Acacia as commonly supposed, is, partly at any rate, Mimosa 
rubicaulis, Lamk. The confusion overibied so fully by Mr. Craib 
seems to exclude the possibility of taking M. Intsia, Linn. as the 
earliest name for the plant. 
There is now question of M. octandra, Roxb. Cor. Pl. t. 200 
and Fl. Ind. 564. Both Roxburgh’s figure and descriptions 
seem to me to pee: M. rubicaulis, Lamk., but Roxburgh’s 
own spec named in his own handwriting, in the eer 
Herbarium and Wallich Collection do not agree. They have 
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there seems to be no specimen seabed It was collected ‘ on 
the banks of the Ganges near Benares,’ and this may have been 
the northern limit of VM. rubicaulis. 
Mimosa Rottleri, Spreng. Syst. i1. 206 appears to be merely 
new name invented to associate Rottler with the plant which 
= called M. spinosisiliqua, admitted to agree with M. rubicaulis, 
Lam ae Sprengel. The description fits M. rubicaulis well 
enou 
Thus I conclude that the common species of the Sonthern part 
of the Madras Presidency i is Mimosa r ee Lamk., including 
M. octandra of the ‘ Coromandel Plan 
It now remains to identify the Nocthe Indian species of which 
_a fine series exists in the Herbaria I liave examined. 
mens come from the whole a oi of the ee from 
