Galeottiane. N, O. Leguminosz. 
TAB. CCCLXXIII. 
Mimosa FLoripunpba, H.B.K. 
Fruticosa erecta, caule petiolisque aculeatis cum pedunculis 
ferrugineo-hispidis, aculeis sparsis, foliis conjugato-pinnatis 
pinnis supra demum glabriusculis subtus strigosis 4-foliola- 
tis, quorum foliolis 3 semiovatis, quarto infimo interno abor- 
tivo minuto, pedunculis inferioribus axillaribus bi-ternisve 
petiolum zquantibus, superioribus racemoso-subpaniculatis, 
capitulis globosis densifloris. 
Mimosa floribunda. H.B.K., Nov. Gen. Am. 6. p. 250. Willd. 
Sp. Pl. v. 4, p. 1031. De Cand. Prodr. v. 2. p.426. Cham. 
et Schlecht. in Linnea, v. 5. p. 591. Hook. et Arn, in Bot. of 
Beech, Voy., p. 287. 
Mimosa Willdenovii. Poir, Suppl. v. 1. p. 50. 
Has. Near Cumana; Humboldt. Columbia; Cuming, (n. 1241). 
Mexico. Tepic; Capt. Beechey. Xalapa; Schiede, Galeotti. 
_ Stems woody, erect, and, as well as the petioles, prickly, 
(the prickles short, slightly curved and scattered,) and they 
€ peduncles are densely clothed with short spreading rigid and 
fulvous hairs. Leaves conjugate and pinnate, each pinna con- 
‘ists of four leaflets, with small subulate stipules at the base; 
the Upper pair large, equal, semiovate, the inferior pair extremely 
Unequal, of which the outer one resembles the upper ones, the 
imner exceedingly small, all mucronate, nearly glabrous above, 
beneath, clothed with close-pressed rigid hairs or bristles of a 
tawny colour, those at the margin being peculiarly hard 
and rigid. Peduncles 2 or 3 from the axils of many of the 
ves, as long as the petioles, monocephalous; the upper ones 
_ Tom the abortion of the leaves form a sort of elongated panicle 
_ raceme. Heads globose. ‘The numerous stamens appear to 
have been purple. 
