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Page 1o9.—For C. glauca Lam. read: 
C. SURATTENSIS Burm. f. FI. Ind. p. 163 (1768). C. glauca Lamk. 
Encycl. I, p. 467 (1783). 
For C. mimosoides Linn. read: 
Leaflets about 50, linear, minute, o°15 in. 
long ; pedicels over 3 in., bracteolate above 
the middle; pod 20~—25-seeded; petiolar 
gland sessile; petals without red spots . 12. C. MIMOSOIDES. 
Leaflets about 20, oblong, 04 in. long, 
0°15 in. broad; pedicels 0°3 in., bracteolate 
below the middle; pod 8-16-seeded; peti- 
olar gland subsessile ; upper 2 petals with 
red spots. : : A . 13. C. Leschenaultiana. 
12. ©. mimosoides Linn. 
Up to 4000 ft. rather common. Pussellava; Uda Pussellava; Ban- 
daravella; Peradeniya; Polonnaruva - Hakgala ; Diyanilla ; Maturata ; 
Hantane. 
Throughout the Tropics. 
13. C. LESCHENAULTIANA DC. in Mem. Soc. Phys. Gen. II, p. 134 - 
(1824). C. Wallichiana DC. 1. c.; Petch in Ann. Perad. IX, p. 229 
(1924). C. mimosoides var. Wallichiana Bak. in Fl. Brit. Ind. II, 
p- 266 (1879). 
Annual, usually woody at the base; stems stout, deep 
purple-red, 23-3 ft. high, pubescent, sparingly branched 
above with suberect branches; leaf-rachis 1-24 in., pilose, 
with a subsessile gland below the lowest pair of leaflets; 
gland shaped like an inverted cone; stipules ovate-linear, 
usually strongly 3-nerved, up to 4 in. long, with the margins 
hairy; leaf ovate-oblong in outline, dark blue-green; leaflets 
about 18 pairs, 0-4 in. long 0-15 in. broad; apex mucronate. 
bracteolate below the middle: Hs. on slender pedicels 3 in. 
long, 1-3 in the leaf axils; sepals linear-lanceolate, acute, 
yellow; petals orange-red, with red spots at the bases of the 
two upper ones; fertile stamens usually 10, rarely 8-9 with 
ier. 2 staminodes, yellow and purple; pod I-12 in. long, 
8-16 seeded, apex with a downward directed mucro. 
Peradeniya; Bogavantalava; Haragama; Agrapatana. 
Throughout the Tropics. 
52. CYNOMETRA Linn. 
Leaflets 1 pair, 44-6 in. long, laceolate, acuminate 1. C. RAMIFLORA. 
Leaflets usually 3 pairs, 1-5 in. jong; ovate-lanceo- 
late, acuminate or not. : : . 2. C. BIJUGA 
1, ©. ramiflora Linn. Sp. Pl. p. 382 (1753). C. ramiflora subsp. 
genuina Prain, in Journ. As. Soc. Beng. LXVI, p. 478 (1897). C. 
longifolia Trim. ms. Gal-mendora, 5S. (Trimen). 
Low country jungles; between Nilgala and Pettipular, Uva, between 
Muppane and Indigasvalla; Kumbukan; Alutnuvara. Fls. Jan. 
Part ff. 
